<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/club-nxt-remains-unbeaten-at-home-after-animated-finals-against-rsca-futures-challenger-pro-league-2022-2023/" title="Club NXT remains unbeaten at home after animated finals against RSCA Futures | Challenger Pro League 2022/2023″>RSCA Futures, Anderlecht’s U23 team, is still at the bottom of the Challenger Pro League standings. And this is starting to make them particularly nervous. For the Neerpede project, it remains crucial that young talents can compete with adults to facilitate the transition.
Anderlecht have had to focus all their attention on the first team lately. Due to injuries, Tristan Degreef and Nathan De Cat have already been promoted to the A team. Degreef looks unlikely to return and 16-year-old De Cat is indispensable in the Futures midfield.
However, in recent months, De Cat has missed several training sessions as he was training with the first team. This is not ideal at all. De Cat is physically ahead of his peers and should be next to break through to the bigs, but that won’t happen this season.
New investors in Deinze: a hard blow…for Anderlecht
The fact that KMSK Deinze has found new investors is also a blow, because if the East Flanders team goes bankrupt, only one other team could be relegated.
And the delay on Seraing is only one point. The coach Jelle Coen can, however, be consoled by the performances of recent weeks. “In the last four games, we certainly haven’t been dominated by our opponents,” Coen said.
“Against Liège, we had victory in hand, but we conceded a goal at the very end of the match: instead of a 3-2 victory, it ended in a 3-3 draw. Last week against Zulte-Waregem, a small moment of inattention was fatal for us, costing us the equalizer and leading to a 2-3 defeat.”
“Even against La Louvière (1-2), we deserved at least a point. And against the youngsters from Genk, we were simply unlucky. If we had taken all these points into account, we would not only have a , but at least five more points now It would make a huge difference to this group.”
An impact on the image…and a sporting drama
However, the reality is different and President Wouter Vandenhaute is also starting to worry. He regularly attends matches. Relegation would not only be a blow to the image, but also a sporting tragedy. Anderlecht were the strongest supporters of moving up prospects in the professional divisions.
If the hopefuls descend into the amateur divisions soon, they will once again lose a strong argument in negotiations to retain talent in Brussels. But it is also their own fault. Each season, the squad gets younger and the transfers made so far have been disappointing. With an average age of under 19, it is difficult to compete against physically stronger teams…
