Dragons suffered their first loss of the season in surprising fashion on Wednesday afternoon, falling to second bottom side La Gantoise 3-2 in Ghent, allowing Racing Club de Bruxelles to narrow the gap significantly.
Pascal Kina’s side (pictured above) played the tie perfectly against
the reigning champions, going ahead from a corner via Max Peeters. Manu Stockbroekx equalised but Maurice Dubois put La Gantoise back in front with a spectacular volley.
Thomas Verheyen levelled the game for a second time before Argentine Lautaro Diaz won the game for the Ghent side.
It allowed Racing to close in with another victory, beating Pingouin 4-3 with Anthony Versluys continuing his excellent form with the winning goal nine minutes from the end.
Tom Boon earlier scored a hat trick in reply to two goals from Nicolas Vandiest and one from former Berliner player Benedikt Swiatek.
Royal Leopold strengthened their place in the top four with a 3-2 win over Waterloo Ducks with Agustin Mazzilli scoring the crucial goal in Leo’s sixth win of the campaign.
Daring applied yet more pain on KHC Leuven with another 3-2 victory. Sergi Enrique and Victor Wegnez built a 2-0 lead before Geoffroy Cosyns eventually grabbed the winner after Leuven had fought their way back into the game.
Braxgata beat Herakles 4-3 and Antwerp won 5-4 against Beerschot in the other games of the day.
Next Sunday is the final game of the first half of the season before the winter break with Dragons hosting Daring and Leopold face Leuven in the big games.
Picture: Grant Treeby