Fabio Cannavaro - An Anderlecht story

we played 8 games between October and Novmeber and im very pleased with how the last two months have gone, we won 6 of 8, losing and drawing the other two. weve also managed to keep five clean sheets all of which have been in the last five matches and our attack is also looking quite strong.
our 2-0 win over traditional league rivals Standard Liege would have to be the biggest result of the month because it given us the confidence we need when facing the other big boys in the title race from now on.

so weve managed to rise to the top of the league after this positive period of matches and also started to pull away from the chasing pack. with matches against our closest rivasl comging up in the non to distant future we could really start to pull away with some positive results

Cheickhou Kouyate has won my player of the month award for October and November for his sterling performances in the Champions League and Jupiler League. he has been one of the main reasons we have managed to keep five consecutive clean sheets. his partnership with Deschacht has been vital. Anderlecht are currently in talks with Cheickhou over a new contract believed to be resolved in the coming weeks.
this is big news for Anderlecht because big teams across Europe are said to be monitoring the situation

A win was needed to have any chance of progression to the Europa League but Barcelona had no intention of going easy on us when Gerard Pique scored in the first minute it was a sign of what was to come as Barcelona went onto score 2 more in the first half and pretty much end our dream of further European participation. we did manage to keep them out in the second half but the damage was already done and we eventually lost 3-0. Barcelona were just too good

we finished the Groupstage bottom of the group but went away with many positives. we remained unbeaten against Borussia Dortmund with a win and draw. Anderlecht exit with there heads held high

We went into this match knowing we had to score 3 goals at the very least to progress but it couldnt have got off to a worse start for us as Mechelen were awarded a penalty early on which was tucked away, finally we started to find some rythem and scored 3 unanswered goals before the break. A scoreless second half ensured the match went to extra where no goals were scored. with both teams putting away there first 5 spot kicks it went to sudden death, then up stepped N'Sakala for Anderlecht and he smash the ball into the crossbar leaving the match to be decided by the Mechelen captain who tucked the ball away to sent to home fans into raptures knowing theyve made its first cup semi final in a decade