On Sunday evening Lierse lost 4-1 away to Racing Genk. Jelle Vossen quickly gave the home side a 2-0 lead. After the break Cavens gave Lierse some hope, but Camus and Ogunjimi both scored late on for Genk.
As was the case last week against Kortrijk, Aimé Anthuenis left three regulars on the bench: Cavens, Mensah and De Graef giving way for Elgabas, Sekour and Wahed. The injured Van Hemert was replaced by Kevin Janssens, who took the role of left back. Sekour moved into midfield whilst Nicaise slotted into central defence alongside Camacho.
The match could hardly have begun worse for Lierse. In the third minute Wahed played too short a backpass. The in-form Kevin De Bruyne intercepted and picked out Ogunjimi who was in space on the left. His resulting shot was parried by Kawashima but Jelle Vossen followed up to open the scoring from the loose ball: 0-1.
The following opportunity was for Lierse: Dodo Elgabas tried to go past his man but was blocked off. Somewhat fortunately he regained possession and was able to fire the ball across goal. Enough players available in an advanced position for Lierse, but Elgabas chose to shoot, and his effort sailed overt. This was a great chance to equalise squandered.
Genk immediately fought back. Firstly De Bruyne gave Kawashima warning with a thunderous shot, then straight afterwards De Bruyne again had tilme in midfield. The unmarked Vossen was picked out, and unhesitatingly fired past Kawashima into the left hand corner: 2-0 after only 16 minutes.
The hometeam were in control and content to let Lierse have the ball for spells. On the counter Vossen fired in a shot at Kawashima. Only Dequevy, from a Radzinski pass, had the chance to score, but he was unable to get sufficient contact. Genk comfortbaly played out the first half. It could even have been 3-0, Ogunjimi incorrectly flagged offside.
Anthuenis had to intervene at halftime. He brought on Jurgen Cavens for Wahed. Nothing much changed initially. Lierse continued to find it very difficult against a well organised and strong Genk team.
None the less the first chance in the second half was for Lierse. Throw in Camacho, Elgabas headed back to Cavens who fired into the top corner: 2-1. Lierse seemed to gain confidence from the goal and begun to play with more swagger. Racing Genk still were not put out of their stride though, and were able to keep Lierse away from Courtois' goal.
Goalkeeper Kawashima has not enjoyed many happy days at Lierse up to now, but deep into the second half he showed his class with three excellent saves in the space of two minutes. Twice Ogunjimi was able to head unchallenged at goal from crosses from Buffel, twice Kawashima thwarted him. Then Töszér found Kawashima in his way when he broke clean through. The fourth time was too much to ask though. Camus through on goal and converted his chance via the crossbar: 3-1. A good effort from Elgabas and an equally good header from Radzinski couldn't change the tide, keeper Courtois twice saving well.
Athe the other end Genk had acres of space to increase their lead. With a three against one situation, they were initially unsuccessful, but it would have been a scandal for Ogunjimi to miss the rebound: 4-1.
So Lierse remain without a point after five matches.
Racing Genk: Courtois, Joneleit, Matoukou, Hubert, Tözsér, Vossen (74' Camus), De Bruyne (58' Dugary), Ngonca, Buffel (89' Yeboah), Ogunjimi, Pudil
Lierse: Kawashima, Camacho, Sekour, Dequevy (65' Douala), Elgabas, Radzinski, Claasen (80' Job), Wahed (46' Cavens), Janssens, Nicaise, Davids
Goals: 3' Vossen 1-0, 16' Vossen 2-0, 65' Cavens 2-1, 83' Camus 3-1, 93' Ogunjimi 4-1
Booked: 35' Camacho (L), 37' Nicaise (L), 81' Janssens (L)
Attendance: 19,076
