The OH Leuven Thread

[MC Prussian]

Won their second game of the season 2-1 away at Royale Union Saint-Gilloise.

 

Elliott Moore with Leuven's opener (assist by George Hirst).

 

Leuven now second in the table after two matches played.

Edited 12 August 2018 by MC Prussian

[Foxxed]

30 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Won their second game of the season 2-1 away at Royale Union Saint-Gilloise.

 

George Hirst with Leuven's opener (assist by Elliott Moore).

 

Leuven now second in the table after two matches played.

 

[Mark]

31 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

George Hirst with Leuven's opener (assist by Elliott Moore).

 

[Carl the Llama]

Ze profiteren duidelijk van Nigel aan de roer the hebben. 

[stretch1965]

59 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Ze profiteren duidelijk van Nigel aan de roer the hebben. 

net zoals wij in 2013/14,

 

[Carl the Llama]

Just now, stretch1965 said:

net zoals wij in 2013/14,

 

'Tuurlijk

[Lizhang]

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

[baldeagle]

49 minutes ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

Hearst scored . He’s a striker 

[Lizhang]

13 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

Hearst scored . He’s a striker 

Yeah, i watched the match, Hirst didn't score any goal. Don't know where you got your info from.

[urban.spaceman]

7 hours ago, Lizhang said:

No they never said anything about 5 years. The idea was within 2 years, or at least this was used to rally supporters behind the idea of the takeover by the board. Incoming transfers are hardly better than what the club realized before being bought by KP. We are still sorely lacking creativity and quality of play is terrible.To put it mildly.

If the idea were 5 years, we didn't have to sell to a Thai company, we could have sold the club to local investors instead. In a league of 8 teams, it would be nothing short of asinine to aspire promotion in 5 years, when you are by far the most financially secure club of the league.

We can only hope.

 

 

You need to trust Leicester fans when they tell you to be patient. Whatever the Thais said about the short term when they took over they have a great long-term plan for you, and they've employed one of the best managers around to do it.

 

And don't worry about promotion just yet. Under Nigel, we had 2 opportunities to get promoted in 2009 and 2013. Both play-off semi-finals that came down to last minute penalty misses by Frenchmen. If we had gone up at that time I still believe that we probably would not have survived; we just weren't ready yet. And like us last season with Europe - again, we weren't ready yet. There's no point going up if you run the risk of coming back down again.

 

With time and trust Nigel will get you up to not just survive, but thrive.

[Stadt]

Leuven fans, has Pearson started learning Flemish?

[Suzie the Fox]

2 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

Meh, thats more than enough  .. I heard you can win the Premier league with less .. 

[KingsX]

44 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

You need to trust Leicester fans when they tell you to be patient.

 

[MC Prussian]

7 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

You know your team is good when it plays like shit and still wins.

 

Besides, possession isn't everything in football.

[baldeagle]

7 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Yeah, i watched the match, Hirst didn't score any goal. Don't know where you got your info from.

The post 4 up from you. Which was incorrect so I apologise 

[Babylon]

Who is actually scouting and buying the players for them?

 

I massive part of our success was not only buying good players but players with the right attitudes that helped with the team spirit.

 

If the scouting isn't up to scratch then Pearson is no miracle worker.

[MC Prussian]

Highlights from yesterday‘s 2-1 away win - Moore‘s goal starting at minute 01:07:

https://www.proximus11.be/nl/proximus-league/voetbal-video/18998/union-saint-gilloise-oh-leuven

[KFS]

8 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Who is actually scouting and buying the players for them?

 

I massive part of our success was not only buying good players but players with the right attitudes that helped with the team spirit.

 

If the scouting isn't up to scratch then Pearson is no miracle worker.

Rob Mackenzie is involved isn't he?

[lgfualol]

8 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

This wont go down well here. 

[KFS]

8 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

We used to say under Pearson 'you have the ball, we'll have the points'

 

Depends what you want more, pal

Edited 13 August 2018 by KFS

[Carl the Llama]

9 hours ago, Lizhang said:

Typical win under Pearson. Two central defenders scoring. Forwards not getting any service, no creativity in the squad, 39% possession (29 in the first half)... even Nigel himself acknowledged we didn't deserve the win.

So you weren't at your best and still won? Sounds awful.

[CosbehFox]

51 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Who is actually scouting and buying the players for them?

 

I massive part of our success was not only buying good players but players with the right attitudes that helped with the team spirit.

 

If the scouting isn't up to scratch then Pearson is no miracle worker.

Judging from his twitter Rob Mackenzie is leading the scouting 

[Outfox the Fox]

7 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Judging from his twitter Rob Mackenzie is leading the scouting 

He is indeed. He is listed as 'Head of Technical Scouting' on the OHL website.

 

Another ex-City man on their staff, is Paul Balsom - 'Head of Performance Innovation'. 

 

Interesting that all the OHL staff have English job titles - whereas everything else on the OHL site is in Flemish! I wonder when they are going to get an English website - for all us surrogate fans!

Edited 13 August 2018 by Outfox the Fox

[fleckneymike]

7 hours ago, KFS said:

We used to say under Pearson 'you have the ball, we'll have the points'

 

Depends what you want more, pal

 

Did we? 

[Lizhang]

16 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

You need to trust Leicester fans when they tell you to be patient. Whatever the Thais said about the short term when they took over they have a great long-term plan for you, and they've employed one of the best managers around to do it.

 

And don't worry about promotion just yet. Under Nigel, we had 2 opportunities to get promoted in 2009 and 2013. Both play-off semi-finals that came down to last minute penalty misses by Frenchmen. If we had gone up at that time I still believe that we probably would not have survived; we just weren't ready yet. And like us last season with Europe - again, we weren't ready yet. There's no point going up if you run the risk of coming back down again.

 

With time and trust Nigel will get you up to not just survive, but thrive.

We recently came down from 1st division. Our youth and training facilities are top 10 in the country. We are full and well ready to play in 1st division and have been since 2008.