Lierse won their first pre-season match this afternoon away to FC Pulle (4th
division provincial) 16-0. Despite the dreadful Bank Holiday weather, there was a massive yellow-black following for the team. There were around 1800 supporters overall.
Lierse scored goals early in the game, but there was a gap to around the half-hour mark for more. It was 0-4 at halftime.

In the second half Lierse quickly extended the lead. Our team had also brought 7 new faces in during the break. Especially during the last 15 minutes, the goals came one after the other. The final count was sixteen.

Summary:

3’ 0-1: Cavens majestically turned the ball into the far top corner with his
left foot.
12’ 0-2: Nikolic put away his first of the afternoon past the Pulle keeper.
13’ Mertens with a header against the bar
14’ Cavens header, saved by the keepers foot.
17’ Nikolic headed against the bar, Cavens unbelievably misses.
18’ Cross from Nedzipi, De Witte heads against the post.
33’ Mertens misses, he shoots at the keeper after an assist from Cavens.
37’ 0-3: Cavens taps a pass from De Graef in.
40’ Buyens shoots at the keeper.
41’ 0-4: Pass from Cavens after a short corner from Nedzipi, Nikolic heads in
via the bar.

52’ 0-5: Nedzipi breaks down the wing and finishes nicely.
53’ 0-6: Free kick Bojovic, Pulle keeper misses the ball
60’ 0-7: Nikolic profits from a keeper error from a shot from Meyers.
61’ 0-8: Penalty + yellow card for Pulle keeper, following a foul on the clean
through De Witte. Nedzipi easily puts away the penalty.
65’ 0-9: Combination Sherif-Cavens, Nikolic finishes off.
70’ 0-10: Tshiala puts double figures on the scoreboard.
75’ 0-11: Sherif shoots in the top corner.
76’ 0-12: Nikolic heads an assist from Samir past the Pulle keeper.
79’ 0-13: Shot on goal from Nedzipi, Cavens heads the rebound in.
80’ 0-14: Samir shoots into the top corner.
82’ 0-15: Nedzipi scores his third.
89’ 0-16: Samir puts the 0-16 final score on the board.

An extensive photo and video report will follow later on the website.

17-year old left back Glenn Smet, who has been loaned to KV Turnhout by Lierse, debuted on Sunday in Turnhout’s first pre-season match vs First Division Dender, which ended 2-2. Smet came on at half time, and played a more than decent 45 minutes. Omar and Develer didn’t feature, they were both injured.

After a quarter of an hour Ven chested the ball down to Mbemba, who finished beautifully. Both teams continued to create outright chances, but further goals did not come, and the home team went in to halftime with a 1-0 lead.
Dender put the situation right after the break, with goals from Wittesaele and De Petter. Twelve minutes from time Noyen found himself clear in front of goal, Martinovic was able to save his first attempt, but Ven scored from the rebound. So this attractive friendly ended 2-2, a good result for Turnhout, who have only had 4 training sessions so far.

Turnhout: Claesse, Boeckx, Vandenbergh (Tamsin 58′), Loyens, De Schutter (Smet 45′), Moons, Proost, Cicilia (Kuipers 71′), Janssens, Mbemba (Noyen 45′), Ven

The Lierse reserves played their first pre-season friendly on Sunday afternoon under the leadership of Donato Lallo.
This was played at 1st division Provincial side KFC Katelijne. With a young team the Lierse reserves lost 4-0.
In the first half Mamadou Barry, a transfer from Ganshoren, scored a hat trick for Katelijne. Van Campenhout made it 4-0 before half time. During the interval Lierse changed almost the entire starting 11, only Goyvaerts and Van der Veken also played in the second half. There was no further scoring, so the score remained 4-0.

Following pre-season matches:
21/07 - 16.00 PULLE - K.LIERSE S.K (First Team)
23/07 - 19.30 AC Tervant - U19 Lierse
24/07 - 19.00 Verbr-Maasmechelen - Lierse reserves

KFC KATELIJNE:
DAEMS, VAN CAMPENHOUT, VAN DESSEL, VERMEULEN, GOYVAERTS, SMITS, AZEVEDO,
VAN DE PERRE, CONVALLE, NAETS, BARRIJ

K. LIERSE SK.:
SELS (46’ VERVAEKEN), BRAWERS (46’ HAAGEN), GYS (46’ VAN DEN BRANDE), GOYVAERTS,
VAN DEN BROECK (46’ PERSYN), VAN DER VEKEN, STEVANOVIC (46’ DE SWERT),
DE CONINCK (46’ SEELS), MULOP (46’ NKUMAN), KWAAKUM (46’ JANSSENS), ERDEKLI (46’ CAPA)

Goals -
6’ BARRY 1-0
21’ BARRY 2-0
23’ BARRY 3-0
43’ VAN CAMPENHOUT 4-0