Lierse play their penultimate pre-season friendly this evening away to KV Turnhout. Kick off is at 20.00.
Eight of the players who played the full match against Dender on Thursday will not feature tonight (Buyens, Cavens, De Witte, De Graef, Dreesen, Frans, Nedzipi and Tshiala), and they will follow a running session.
Newcomer Kujovic is also absent this evening. De Corte (ankle) and Peeters (achilees) are still injured. Triallist Arthur gets a second chance. For Turnhout, Lierse loan players Develer, Smet and Omar are in the squad.

The 15-man squad:
Bojovic Petar, Donnie Arthur, El Baily Sheriff, Goris Nathan, Janssens Chris, Mertens Jeroen, Meyers Christopher, Nikolic Stefan, Nkuman Michel, Rimkus Lorenzo, Samir Achmed, Van der Jeugt Sven, Ventose Dries, Wahed Abdel  Mo and Weuts Koen.

Admission for both seating and standing places is 8 Euro.

As is already known, Peter Utaka is trying to get his release to play. On Thursday there will be a meeting of the performance committee of the KBVB (Belgian FA), in which this case is on the agenda.

The stadium of FC De Kempen in Tielen was well filled when Lierse played tonight against first division team Dender, where a lot of players didn’t play and rested. The Pallieters took the initiative but they didn’t get chances in the first half. The visitors didn’t play much better, but the boys out of the Dender region came in front. Already after 8 minutes the score was 0-1. Dender took a corner and the Lierse defense let Wittersaele score with the head. Lierse had tot wiat until 20 minute before the end to equalize. Cavens was the man of the reparation in the midfield, he gave the ball to a strong playing Garry De Graef , who came inside, dribbled his opponent and equalized with a shot in the short corner. A correct endscore.

Highlights
1’. Nedzipi shows that he’s in the mood and passes gorgeously at Buyens.
8’ corner Dender: the ball is headed straight at Goris who can’t keep the ball and Wittersaele scores with the head.
16’ nice combination of the visitors, a hard shot just goes beside.
28’ beautiful pass van De Witte to Cavens, Berthelin is just on time out if his goal and can take the ball just before the coming Lierseattacker.
32’. Frans slips, because of this Masibusane can go through, the leftwinger tries to lob but Goris is attentive.
36’ Free kick Nedzipi, Donnie heads on Berthelin.
41’ yellowcard for Nedzipi because he kicks a ball away out of frustration.
45’ half time
56’ yellow card for Masibusane for a tackle on Tshiala
57’ Dender : Smajic replaced by Degroote
58’ Tshiala lies the ball for Buyens, a hard shot, but beside the goal
63’ Karoubi replaced by Jacobs
69’ yellowcard for Filipovic for a tackle on Samir
72’ 1-1 Cavens passes beautifully at De Graef at the lefthandside , Garry goes inside and scores in the sort corner.
81’ Nedzipi replaced by Nkuman
87’ Yellowcard for Wittesaele.

Lierse First half: Goris, De Graef, Dreesen, Frans, Tshiala, De Witte, Buyens, Cavens, Ventose, Nedzipi, Donnie
Lierse second half: Goris, De Graef, Dreesen, Frans, Tshiala, De Witte, Buyens, Cavens, Nedzipi, Samir, Nikolic

The match in the EXQi-League between Antwerp and Lierse will be played on Sunday 31th of August at 15.00 instead of Saturday 30th of August