Belgium

West Vlaanderen Provincial 2A

Eindronde Promotion Play Off 2nd Leg

Sunday 19th May 2019

Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.01

K.S.V. Rumbeke 3 K.F.C. Heist 1 (4-1 on aggregate). attendance 269

43’ 0-1

80’ 1-1

88’ 2-1

90’+ 1, 3-1

@ Sportpark Rumbeke

Wervikhovestraat 7

8800 Rumbeke

€6 Admission

Team Sheet, free.

Today’s match was a Promotion Play Off in West Vlaanderen Provincial 2A, between the teams that had finished second and third in the league table. Rumbeke had won the first leg last Sunday 1-0, so were in pole position to advance to the next stage of the Play Offs, as they look to make an immediate return back to Provincial 1, having been relegated last season.

Heist came out and went for a goal from the off, but Rumbeke held out and started to get into the game themselves. Just before the break Heist deservedly went 0-1 up. Conversations during halftime seemed to suggest that if the score line remained the same, then we would be heading for extra time, and maybe penalties, although there seemed a bit of uncertainty as to whether the ‘away goals’ rule was in place, but unless there were more goals, this would be irrelevant.

Both teams did try to get a goal during the second half, but there were too many wasted chances. We had resigned ourselves to watching extra time, when a cross from the left was slid in at the far post to level it up at 1-1 with ten minutes left, which meant 2-1 ahead on aggregate for the hosts. Despite the fact that Heist only needed one goal to remain in the tie, the goal seemed to have totally demoralised them and Rumbeke added two more goals in the dying minutes to win it 3-1 on the day, 4-1 on aggregate.

We were booked on the 0950 outbound Tunnel, but were offered the earlier 0936 instead. As it was very quiet, we were loaded onto the 0920, but due to ‘technical’ problems, it didn’t leave until 0936, which rather than being a problem, actually looks suspiciously like there were never really going to be two trains running anyway and instead they were combined into a single crossing. As for our return, we were booked on the 1950, which we had to do in case of extra time and penalties. With the game over in the 90 minutes, it meant we were actually back at The Tunnel and through check-in by 1831. We were offered the earlier 1936 departure, which we gratefully accepted and once again, as it was very quiet, managed to make it into the last half dozen cars to ‘tail end’ it onto the 1920, which left a minute early.