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Kortrijk - Waasland-Beveren   Prediction, Picks and Taips  


 
 

We will close the first football Sunday of the new season with a match between Kortrijk and Waasland-Beveren. Kortrijk is obliged to win against Waasland-Beveren, which only after a long legal battle since last week can be sure of retention at the highest level.




 
 



As a good family man, general manager Matthias Leterme watches over the budget, glad that trainer Yves Vanderhaeghe is not the type that wants a new player every week. For the time being, KVK only attracted two newcomers this summer, two from West Flanders: midfielder Michiel Jonckheere already worked with the trainer at KVO, Gilles Dewaele is a fast right back who can take care of the entire flank and who after a few good years in second class one of the revelations can be in first. With Dewaele on the right and Kristof D'haene on the left, Vanderhaeghe has two excellent advancing backs.



KV Kortrijk already made most of his sporting homework during the past winter mercato. Then it took a number of players who are expected to kick off as strongholds. Because Tuta is back to Eintracht Frankfurt, the gap at the start of the season for KVK is exposed. In the center of the back the shivering is blown as long as there is no reinforcement. In January, defensive midfielder Jevhen Makarenko also returned. At the time he made his debut as right back at KVK, but could not live up to expectations at a top club like Anderlecht. Back "home" at KVK, as defensive midfielder, he allows Hannes Van Der Bruggen and Julien de Sart to play higher football in the midfield.



Kortrijk's strong point is its footballing ability in midfield, with the central axis Van Der Bruggen-De Sart-Makarenko. In the front, there is still Mboyo Ilombe's experience on the left. On the right, Eric Ocansey must now confirm why KAS Eupen long thought he would be the next lucrative sale from the Aspire Academy after Henry Onyekuru. What will it be with KVK next season? As often, that will depend on the last minute transfers. A place in the top eight would already be a real success.


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 Should a team be mobilized for 1A or one for 1B? Not a cat knew it this summer. It is striking that not much has changed at the core. There is certainly something in between corona, but also uncertainty. And there probably weren't that many fallback options for players from a team that was sixteenth after 29 match days, conceded the most goals (60) and scored barely 21 times.



Does trainer NIcky Hayen, who came over from STVV, find the right balance in midfield? His predecessors puzzled themselves to death. Djihad Bizimana, Matthias Verreth, Jur Schryvers (right back at the end due to the injury of Andreas Wiegel) and co missed the ball, ideas, control. The Japanese Yuki Kobayashi did not gain momentum either. Too much chaff, too little wheat was the hard conclusion.



The fact that Waasland-Beveren shot itself in the foot by changing the Frenchman Arnauld Mercier too late, does not alter the fact that there was also a major offensive problem. Tuur Dierckx was the best with three goals. Stefan Milosevic and co can try again. To look forward to: the American Joseph Efford. Fast and right-footed, with a nose for goals. His story alone is worth it: at the age of 23 he has life and especially test experience in Romania (1 month), on Mallorca (1 match in 2 years due to visa problems) and with the Greek Ergotelis. An adventurous striker.
 
 
 
 


Our recommendation tip for Kortrijk - Waasland-Beveren   :   Kortrijk    to win @ 1.60