Belgium

Antwerpen Provincial 1

Sunday 17th November 2019

Kick Off 17.00 Actual 17.01

K. Sport Atletiek Vereniging Sint-Dimpna 1 F.C. Berlaar-Heikant 1, attendance 279

12’ 0-1

64’ 1-1

@ Sultan Stadion

Eikevelden 81

2440 Geel

€8 Admission

Team Sheet, free.

The five mile drive from Beekhoek, via the centre of Geel, took just sixteen minutes, which saw us arrive in plenty of time for the 17.00 start. On entering the ground, we came across a real rarity as far as Belgian grounds go, as there was actually hot food available. Somehow, I don’t think this will catch on. The usual lack of this, plus using a ridiculous token system at most Belgian grounds, is something that is never a problem north of the border in The Netherlands. In fact, even at the lowest levels of Dutch Amateur football getting food is no problem.

As for the game, Sint-Dimpna came into this bottom of the league table with just five points from their opening eleven matches, which includes just one win. Berlaar-Heikant are fourth. When the visitors went ahead early it was going to form, but they were unable to add a second goal. Sint-Dimpna levelled it up at 1-1 just after the hour mark and it was quite a surprise the game actually finished all square, as both sides created chances for a winner, but most efforts seemed to miss the target by a matter of inches, or hit the woodwork, in the visitors case.

Our journey back to The Tunnel was trouble free and we arrived in plenty of time for our 22.20 return. If we had missed this train it would have been a three hour wait for the next one. We left on time and our only delay on the homeward journey was due to the M20 being closed at Junction 6.