Maurice De Paarse: RSC Anderlecht

Wait, at the playoffs you play each team only once or twice? It will be really interesting at the end to see if you can pull it off.

Work to be done from here. The away visit will be absolutely crucial. I think it's going right down to the wire.

To start, I'm not champions (yet) haha, we play twice in the play-offs.

U19
I want to congralugate alle the players and staff members who's involved in the youth. Our guys did a beautiful job with winning the UEFA Youth League 2020.


Like you can see Guindo is a huge prospect, I think he got a place in the top 50 of best talents in FM20.

Big Talents (All the faces are pictures of ChilledMoose, graphic designer; https://www.patreon.com/chilledmoose or https://twitter.com/chilled_moose, you can have some free facepacks for your newgens and when subbed get monthly new faces, really nice if you find the current newgens faces horrible (who doesn't?) I'll post a logo on every face for copyrights.




Matchday 4 of 6 games at Play-offs
We meet Standard de Liège for the 4th time this year, the last game was in Anderlecht (18/4/2020) and that game ended in 1-1 draw, had a lot trouble finding the net that game (25shots, 7 on goal). Results before that was a defeat at home (0-1, 3/1/2020) and a win at Liège (0-2, 16/8/2019), so those results didn't really a vision.
This was a very intense game with 6 yellow cards for Standard and 0 for Anderlecht, never something like that. The game was in balance the whole game and was nice to watch, the most beautiful thing was seeing our Captain and Assistant-Manager making 2 beautiful headers and securing this win, leaders stand up at big games and this was another example, great job King Vince!

In the other important game that was played a day later, our biggest rivals, Club Brugge helped us a lot winning (undeserved) at home against Racing Genk with 1-0

PO Table (38/40games)

Like you can see we did a great job, a win against Club Brugge at home will give us the opportunity to light up the trophy against our age-old rival (who helped us do it in this game)

Matchday 5 of 6 games PO
At very sunny day (33°) were upon an beautiful evening to get Sporting win their 35th title, the stadium was already sold out at the PO's, thousands of people came to all the pubs in the neighbourhood (God, what do I miss that in real-life, luckily no Covid19 at my save), hopefully for a beautiful night!


Line-Up RSCA

LIne-Up CLUB


Match Report
0' - First Whistle

25' - Derick Luckassen (RSCA)

33' - Anthony Vanden Borre (RSCA) (Reason: Hard tackle on ankles)

38' - 0-1 Krépin Diatta (Club Brugge) (A: Loïc Nego)

45' - Half-Time (Sub. Kemar Lawrence OUT Edo Kayembe IN (RSCA)

58' - 0-2 Eduard Sobol (Club Brugge) (Free Kick)

65' - 0-3 Simon Deli (Club Brugge) (A: Ruud Vormer)

90' - Final Whistle (End Result: 0-3)

Very painful defeat, all thanks to Vanden Borre, who put whole our season on the line for a stupid tackle, a new page in a rich history of the 32yr-old Tony. Everything will be up at the last game of the year, Matchday 40 (6/6), at Genk. The winner takes it all, a draw or win would make us champions, only a defeat at the Luminus Arena would change this.

Some interesting notes
The current champions are RC Genk, who the title a year ago at the stadium of Anderlecht (1-1), many fans of Anderlecht were clapping for Genk cause we were happy that our rival, Club Brugge didn't win it. We need to get that title back, so nothing better to win it at their ground.

Club Brugge are doing their best to destroy both yours and Genk's momentum going into the final day clash. It's fate that the title will be decided by the two teams facing off I think!

Well done to the youth team for their success too. Very encouraging for the future!

Vanden Borre really put the pressure on yourself, gutting loss.

Good to see the youth winning competitions, hopefully a few gems can come from there in years to come. The league is in the balance but is yours to lose. Good luck.

Win. At all costs.

God this league is confusing haha! All down to one final stand

Title Game, Matchday 40 (6/6)
Like you see we made a trip to Genk, with one objective, get the title over there. A draw is enough to get trophy, but we're going for the win.

RSCA : Jérémy Doku, Sambi Lokonga, Danijel Joveljic, Landry Dimata
RSCA Suspended: Anthony Vanden Borre (Red Card 1/1)

Genk : Paul Onuachu, Junya Ito, Casper De Norre.

Press Con.

Filip Joos: "Hi Maurice, first of all good luck for the last game, the final game for the title. It's nice to see the current champions protecting their title at home. It's been 3 years since the Recordmeister (Anderlecht) has won a title, if they don't get the title this year, it would be 22 years since they had such a bad run. How do you feel?"

- Maurice De Paarse: "Hi Filip, yes it's all up to this game, we could have made us it a lot easier if we didn't had so many draws the last weeks."

Peter Vandenbempt: "We see Jérémy Doku back in the 11 after missing all the Play-Off games (5games), Is he already fit enough? No match rhythm?"

-Maurice De Paarse: "Marko Pjaca had injured himself yesterday so he isn't fit to start."

Filip Joos: "I see that you picked Mohammed El Khatib for the first time for the game squad, he's an 16yr-old Right-Wing, born in Nador, Morocco, lived from his 8y in Roubaix, France. Been playing for RSC Anderlecht since he's 12 year old (2016). Do you plan to bring him in? Will that pressure don't blow his talent up?"

-Maurice De Paarse: "Yes, he fully deserved this selection. We'll see what the match will bring, having 2 right wings at the moment who are doubtful, we might chose for the white rabbit."

Filip Joos: "Will Mohammed get it to the first eleven in some years?"

-Maurice De Paarse: "He's truely a prosepct who with the right mentality and work rate will get it far."

Line-Up Racing Genk


Line-Up RSCA


Match Report

0' - First Whistle

13' - 0-1 Nacer Chadli RSC Anderlecht) (A: Kemar Lawrence)

16' - [img]assets/icons/goal.png[/img 0-2 Yari Verschaeren (RSC Anderlecht)

45' - Half Time: (Sub.: Jérémy Doku, Mohammed El Khatib (First newgen that plays under Maurice De Paarse)

70' - Peter Hrosovsky (Genk)

70' - Sub. RSCA : Marco Kana.
: Sambi Lokonga

75' - Sub. RSCA : Michael Murillo.
: Killian Sardella

83' - Mohammed El Khatib (RSC Anderlecht (A: Nacer Chadli)

87' - Antoine Colassin RSC Anderlecht (A: Killian Sardella)

90' - Final Whistle: End Result: 0-4

Press.
Peter Vandenbempt: "Congratulations Maurice, first year, first title, it can't be more beautiful than this I think? Some first words?

-Maurice De Paarse: "This is the most beautiful day of my life,

Filip Joos: "The stats showed that you totally don't deserve this win, you guys didn't even deserve a draw to be honest, 2 "lucky" early goals. Mixed feelings?"

-Maurice De Paarse: "It's true that the stats showed another game, but can you really say that 0-4 win is undeserved? Well I won't think about it, we're champions, number 35 is in, that's all what counts, now it's time to party!"

Peter Vandenbempt: "Anderlecht totally deserved that win if you look at the whole season, have a nice party!"

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ScottT: Very weird what a run they had at the end winning 3/6, 1 draw and 2 loses in the Play-Off, they even became 3rd after Standard lost 3 games in a row.

Jack: He's always known for his controversy and his amazing talent, again he showed both in this year, luckely that red card didn't affect the title.

TheLFCFan Yeah mate this gives opportunities for the future, as you can see my first Newgen ever in this save that let play/debut immediately scored a goal. If Doku leaves (hopefully not next season) I hopefully will have a good back-up, he's got 4 out of 5 stars at PA, so I hope he can get to it.

Justice: We did it mate, sadly there was no champion celebration cause of a bug (?). I don't know if it got something to do with the Champion Play-Offs but I wonder if they gave it to Genk at the end of the regular season, but i got a K (of champions) and all stories about Anderlecht being champions but no trophy up at the game, weird.

Griffo: (What the fans of my team think about it)[/img]

A league title in the first season. Huge congrats mate!

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Coasting past Genk to win it. Beautiful.

Champions! You've done brilliantly to win the league, especially when it appeared Vanden Borre had cost you everything. Delighted to see El Khatib come in and score on his debut, that's always a very satisfying feeling Big off-season ahead for you, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

A great start to the career. Congrats.

Great achievement, congrats! Now comes the real test in playing continental football and trying to win the league.