Belgium
Oost Vlaanderen Provincial 2B
Sunday 19th January 2020
Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.02
S.K. Munkzwalm 5 K. Standaard S.V. Denderleeuw 3, attendance 206
3’ 0-1
12’ 1-1
17’ 2-1 (pen)
49’ 3-1
59’ 3-2
70’ 3-3
82’ 4-3
85’ 5-3
@ Zwalmmeersch
Rekegemstraat 19/1
9630 Munkzwalm
€5 Admission
Team Sheet, free.
Today was the first trip to Belgium of the new year and indeed new decade. With the only Provincial 1 matches we hadn’t visited being too far east to risk the weather, we played safe and chose to stay west of Brussels, taking in the Oost Vlaanderen 2B runaway leaders S.K. Munkzwalm. With the 3G pitch here, our only problem would be snow, but it was a pleasant day in the end and quite warm when the sun broke through.
Munkzwalm saw their 13 point lead at the top temporarily cut back to 10 points, as second placed K.V.C. De Toekomst Borsbeke won 2-0 last night. Today’s visitors, Denderleeuw, came into this in sixth place in the league table, just 4 points off third place.
Denderleeuw opened the scoring with a curling shot into the top corner after just three minutes, but Munkzwalm had turned it round by the seventeenth minute, levelling it up with a close range finish, following a blocked shot, before converting a penalty, awarded for a trip, to make it 2-1, which was how it remained until halftime. It was 3-1 within minutes of the restart, but two goals for the visitors, both scored from the edge of the 18 yard box, pulled it back to 3-3 with twenty minutes left. Munkzwalm won it with two goals in the last eight minutes, capitalising on two defensive mistakes, when a sliced clearance from a defender was volleyed in from 6 yards for 4-3, before a misplaced pass was intercepted by the winger who scored with a shot off the inside of the post to make it 5-3. Denderleeuw had a man sent off in the last minute following his second yellow card.
The decade got off to a good start as far as The Tunnel was concerned. We were booked on the 09.20 outbound, but were in time to be boarded on the 08.50 instead, whilst we made our planned 19.20 return train without any problems. The train even left a minute early in both directions!
