Who will stop this Union? The PhD student has now also taken a hard line on a visit to KV Oostende. It triumphed with – hold on – a monster score of 1-7. Deniz Undav was the big star with a four-stroke. Due to the impressive victory and the failure of the competition, Union is already 7 points ahead of pursuers Antwerp and Club. The autumn title has arrived, but no doubt every Union supporter secretly dreams of more…
Ostend – Union in a nutshell
- Key moment: In an unguarded moment, Ndicka thinks he can make it 2-2, but he is half a meter offside. Moments later, Nielsen puts the 1-3 on the other side past Hubert. From then on there will be no turning back for Ostend.
- Man of the Match: Who else but Deniz Undav? With four goals and an assist, the Turkish German had more than his share of Union’s monster victory. He has a foot in 22 of his club’s 40 goals this season.
- Remarkable: A nose length, that’s how much it was. Even after matchday 15, the royal couple Vanzeir-Undav still have not scored in the same match. Remarkable for a duo that knows how to find each other blindly.
View the goals from Ostend – Union (1-7)
Union stuns Ostend before half time
Ostend already got a foretaste of what was to come in the first minute. A quick goal by Nieuwkoop was rejected because declarant Vanzeir was offside. The home team hit that warning in the sea breeze and swallowed a valid goal after just five minutes. Undav made use of a mess in the back and that’s how it was 0-1.
Union pushed on and had a double lead on the fifteen minutes. As if it were Barcelona in its heyday, the visitors knocked KVO into destruction and it was again Undav who was allowed to finish. Still, Ostend stayed in the game for a while, because a wrong ball touch by Kandouss enabled Ambrose to make it 1-2. A little later Ndicka even thought to put the 2-2 on the board, but that kite didn’t go up. It was also offside here.
A few minutes later, Ostend had to deal with another blow. Jäkel just pushed a cross into the course of Nielsen, who pushed the ball into the goal. After a furious first half hour, the pace disappeared from the game for a while. With peace in sight, Union pushed through one more time. Enough for Burgess to score the 1-4 completely free.
Loïc Lapoussin from Union provides the best dribble of the weekend
Undav steals the show with four goals
KVO coach Blessin threw in three fresh forces at the start of the second half, but also knew that the calf had drowned long ago. To limit the damage somewhat would be the main goal of a paralyzed home team, who already got away well when Teuma only slammed in front of goal.
It was only a postponement, because on the hour the inevitable Undav showed up again to cash in on an assist from Vanzeir. The rain and the goals kept falling from the sky over the Diaz Arena. On a corner, Burgess didn’t have an opponent around him for miles and so he could make his second. In the meantime it was already 1-6, a real embarrassment for KVO.
And it got a little worse. Brand new international Vanzeir had not yet scored his goal. With a marker over the poor goalkeeper Hubert, he thought he would put his name on the scoreboard after all, but that mean-spirited Undav ran into it half by accident. It couldn’t spoil the fun, because Union has won the autumn title due to the defeats of Club and Antwerp. Where will that end?
What a contrast! While Union players celebrate with the fans, those from Ostend can explain it
It’s getting difficult to keep up with the administration…
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