Belgium

Oost Vlaanderen Provincial 4D

Saturday 9th February 2019

Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.04

F.C. Rangers Merelbeke 0 K.S.C. De Schroevers Moorsel 1, attendance 30

70’ 0-1

@ Complex S.K. Merelbeke

Zwijnaardsesteenweg 89

9820 Merelbeke

€4 Admission, but not charged

No Programme.

We were on the 09.20 Tunnel, which ran on time, heading for what we hoped would be a three match weekend in Belgium. As Rangers Merelbeke play at the ground of S.K. Merelbeke, who also play in this division, then they have a number of Saturday afternoon matches scheduled when there are fixture clashes and as luck would have it, this weekend was one of those occasions.

The match was 9th versus 6th in the league table. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a pretty non eventful match. Rangers were just plain rubbish, whilst Moorsel knew that a single goal would be enough to win it. Rangers had a man red carded three minutes into the second half, for an elbow in the face of a challenging player, but it still took Moorsel until the seventieth minute to make the breakthrough, with a shot from the edge of the box that found the bottom corner of the net.

Our evening fixture was a match in Antwerpen Provincial 1, just under an hour and a quarter drive north east, so plenty of time to check in at our overnight accommodation in Sint-Antonius en route.