Of the rare elite coaches who were already in office last season, only Nicky Hayen has a points per game ratio higher than his. The one who meets current T2 <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/06/bart-meert-becomes-assistant-coach-at-union-saint-gilloise/" title="Bart Meert becomes assistant coach at Union Saint-Gilloise”>Bart Meert, his former assistant at Anderlecht, against the Union on Saturday could be the very first to take KaVé to the Champions Playoffs. There is still a way to go, obviously, but with 26 goals, his team is the best attack in the elite. “Even more than the number of goals, what matters to me is the number of different scorers (12) and the way the goals fall, he congratulated himself after sweeping Dender 2-5. For the adversary, it is impossible to completely block us: danger comes from everywhere.”
Experience and winning changes
Quite the opposite of the Union, one would be tempted to write. “We are going to face a team with confidence“, underlines Sébastien Pocognoli, before talking about his counterpart, T1 for ten years now. “He is an experienced coach who has won titles. We see that there are ideas in the play of his team, which is well structured.”
Despite a lot of new ones, Hasi found the formula. Including via his changes: eight goals were scored by substitutes, the highest total in the elite. It remains to win against the big teams, for KaVé, who managed to beat Antwerp, but lost against Anderlecht, Ghent and Genk.
4 wins out of 4 against the Union
The Union, which goes behind the old barracks this Saturday, hopes to break the beautiful spiral of Mechelen, but knows that it will be complicated: the Saint-Gillois have always lost at KaVé since their return to the elite, even conceding spectacular 3 -0 and 4-0 over the last two seasons… and losing in the Cup as a bonus, in 2021. No other team can boast such 100% against RUSG. Did you say pet peeve?
