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2 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

Arguably Alfie’s best performance for us. He was completely dominant for 90 minutes and that second header is world class. One of the club’s best ever European goals.

Let him loose.

Royal Blue > Royal Chocolatiers

Funnily enough I just watched the highlights of us thrashing Willem just there.

I know Antwerp are Belgian but it sounds a Dutchy name so put me in the mood to watch us beat Dutch teams.

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22 minutes ago, G.E.C. said:

Funnily enough I just watched the highlights of us thrashing Willem just there.

I know Antwerp are Belgian but it sounds a Dutchy name so put me in the mood to watch us beat Dutch teams.

You headed a medicine ball yet?

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7 minutes ago, badjon said:

Were there pictures of who travelled? Or is it just the 23 minus Patterson and Bassey as we would not have been able to replace them? 

On another note what did Pollock do? Is that him gone?

Went off on another one of his bizarre head staggers.

Told @Mr Soprano he was getting slashed and posted his usual incoherent shite all over the place. This was at about 11 o’clock yesterday morning 

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1 minute ago, .Williamson. said:

Went off on another one of his bizarre head staggers.

Told @Mr Soprano he was getting slashed and posted his usual incoherent shite all over the place. This was at about 11 o’clock yesterday morning 

Oh okay then.👍

Just read the BBC scouting report. They mention Lukakus brother. Fair enough and then shoehorn this in.

He was out of favour at the time his parent club was being beaten twice by Celtic in last season's competition.

 

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53 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

Arguably Alfie’s best performance for us. He was completely dominant for 90 minutes and that second header is world class. One of the club’s best ever European goals.

Let him loose.

Royal Blue > Royal Chocolatiers

Alfredo was unplayable that night

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15 hours ago, LH85 said:

I am an Antwerp supporter for over 29 years and happen to have lived in Scotland for over 2 years so do have some idea about both leagues.

For me Rangers is light favorites and this is the general feeling among Antwerp fans, but everyone thinks it can easily go both ways as well.

To give a bit of an idea who you are up against, Antwerp is the oldest team in Belgium established in 1880, a very traditional club. It had alot of financial difficulties in recent history and relegated to the 2nd league for 13 years. Now having a wealthy owner with a big fanbase and located in one of the biggest cities in Belgium they are back at he top of Belgian football and there to stay.

This season Antwerp has a better team than Standard and very unlucky not to win away there this weekend. At the moment I would say after Bruges who is miles away we are the 2nd best team in Belgium at the moment, with Genk being close.

Many Rangers fans see us as an attacking team with an open defence but this changed in 2021 after the previous coach has left to China for money. Our current coach plays more out of the organisation and as a result we score less/concede less. In the first games under the new coach it wasn’t good at all however there is a system now and the team is getting better every week creating more chances. We also had a good run in the league recently and get more points on average vs the previous coach.

We are missing a few key players, our Captain Haroun and our main striker Mbokani, both considered unmissable in this team for different reasons. Our only player who can play instead of Mbokani is Lamkel Ze who has been in magnificent form since he returned from the reserve squad after issues with the previous coach, but he is suspended for the first leg, we only have one other striker “Avenatti” on loan from Standard since January who funny enough faced Rangers in the group stages as well. He hasn’t performed well lately and still to be seen if be cause any treat against Rangers...

I expect a closed game due to missing firepower up front on our side for the first leg. I expect the coach to rely on Lamkel Ze pace on the counter attack in the return game at Ibrox


The Belgian league is overall a bit stronger as it has several decent teams with Bruges, Anderlecht, Standard, Genk, Gent and Antwerp, but Rangers probably had the slight edge I would say over Antwerp.

Both Hagi and Roofe played in Belgium last season. Hagi at Genk but hardly made the first 11 and Roofe at Anderlecht but didn’t really convince their either. This is also because the belgian league  is considered more tactical and defensive in comparison with other leagues like The Netherlands. Eg. The topscorer in NL came to Genk this season and is hardly scoring goals. It doesn’t mean the Belgian league is better than the Dutch but just very different to play against.

I couldn’t help noting some compared Antwerp to Willem ll but they aren’t at all similar, Willem ll has a smaller budget and also at the bottom in the Dutch league, defending in NL is generally weak and more naive as more focus on attack. Although some might have seen games under our previous coach where we did indeed defend naive at times but this unlike Antwerp today.

Wish you all good luck tomorrow and that the may win!

 

 

Royal Antwerp.

Can you tell us more about these connections with Royalty and how  proud the fans are of that ?

Like you,we are very proud of our Royal and loyal connections too. 

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1 hour ago, Essandoh said:

Arguably Alfie’s best performance for us. He was completely dominant for 90 minutes and that second header is world class. One of the club’s best ever European goals.

Let him loose.

Royal Blue > Royal Chocolatiers

Think we'll see a vintage performance tonight from Alfie.

We have a knack of finding a way to get a good result in Europe, think we will tonight. we'll have to be patient and a take a chance when it comes, not many teams play through us and that always give you a chance.

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1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

Went off on another one of his bizarre head staggers.

Told @Mr Soprano he was getting slashed and posted his usual incoherent shite all over the place. This was at about 11 o’clock yesterday morning 

Was this after making a cunt of himself on monday or the same incident?

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