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The Jan Breydel Stadium will see a very important game on Saturday evening. Not so much that it is Club-Anderlecht again but Cercle Brugge receives KAS Eupen. Both teams are in urgent need of points and thus receive a direct relegation candidate as an opponent in a – indeed – six point duel. With three points after eight games, this result may well be decisive at the end of the season. So tension everywhere!
Cercle Bruges:
As if Cercle Brugge could not go deeper into the pit, it also lost last week in the Belgian Cup against noble unknown Rebecquoise. A line may therefore already be drawn. In competition, it is currently sharing the red lantern with Waasland-Beveren and opponent of Saturday KAS Eupen. Each team has so far only earned three points after eight games played. So a pretty negative report. Last week it moved to Antwerp.
Cercle can use the points well and so it was all about the visitors when Gory took the 0-1 after four minutes. But the joy didn’t last long. After the intervention of the VAR, referee Van Damme rejected the goal for Foster’s prior hands. Antwerp was immediately awake and went looking for the opening goal, but both Defour and Refaelov did not get the ball past Badiashile. He who did succeed was Lamkel Zé. After a good pass from Defour, he gave the Cercle goalkeeper a chance. The home team took his foot off the gas pedal and Cercle benefited, although a good dose of luck was involved. A pass from Gory deviated at the foot of Arslanagic and thus disappeared over Bolat in goal: 1-1. It almost even became 1-2. With a nice shot and free kick, Peeters came close to a goal twice. On the other side, Haroun bumped into Badiashile. 1-1, the home support could not take peace with that. But after only 10 minutes in the second half, the Antwerp supporters were able to cheer again. Mbokani was completely released on a free kick by Refaelov and with a good header, he again gave Antwerp the lead. Twenty minutes before the end, Mbokani came close to 3-1 after a clever tap by Mirallas, but Badiashile kept Cercle alive. But it appeared to be a postponement of execution. A minute later Mbokani tried it as a principal and Lamkel Zé scored his second of the evening high in goal. At Cercle, they were already thinking about the important home game against Eupen, while Antwerp was still looking for a fourth goal. Mbokani came closest to it just before the end after a good attack, but Badiashile thought three goals were enough.
Enfant terrible Didier Lamkel Zé was once again the man of the match at Antwerp: “This victory is due to the entire team. I have had difficult moments, but I have to thank the supporters for staying behind me. I hope that they have already forgotten that phase against AZ. It is important to have players like Defour and Mirallas with you, you can feel that. I also have to thank Mirallas for letting me have the ball for that third goal. ”
KAS Eupen:
As already mentioned, it is also far from what it should be for KAS Eupen. In the rankings they are on equal points, but because Eupen has an even worse goal balance, they manage to take the last place. It only scored four goals in eight games. It is therefore very difficult to gain points from this. Nevertheless, it again played three times in a draw. Last week the Standard de Liège had to compete, the leader in the rankings.
The cards were already favorable for Standard in advance. As a leader, it could boast with the best attack, while Eupen dangled with the least goals scored. With Vanheusden and Avenatti kicking off for the first time, the Rouches also made a flying start. Within the first five minutes, Eupen goalkeeper De Wolf saw a free kick by Gavory, a header by Vanheusden and a deviation by Amallah in front of him. The 1-0 was coming and the defense of Eupen helped a little by simply giving way when Laifis advanced. De Cyprioot was given ample time to arm his shot and hammered the ball perfectly into the far corner. Standard lowered the pace a little after that 1-0, but the chances kept coming. Bastien and Amallah could both walk through the heart of the Eupen eleven. Once the visitors were threatening, a Bolingi shot hit the post. Standard did not ignore the warning and struck again. A good attack was given a fitting hit with Boljevic’s diving head butt in the square. All in all, the home team did not have to waste much energy to be victorious at the break. It had gone a bit too easily in the first half, so Standard came out of the dressing room a little sleepy. Eupen coach San José, on the other hand, had encouraged his men, but there was nothing more than a faint shot from Ezatolahi. There is simply not enough quality in the core of the East Cantons. Standard did not show anything again until the hour, but that could count. Boljevic feigned, made room for himself and then put the ball into the bottom corner unsustainably. Another gem of the Montenegrin. The frustrated Amat was then still excluded, which did not make it any nicer for the already considerably hit visitors. After all, the Liège invaders were still looking forward to setting up a final offensive. Carcela’s bang ran aground on the back of Marreh, the detached Fai rammed straight to the fists of De Wolf and Bokadi wanted to do too well on Vojvoda’s depositor. Of course, the three points were already in for Standard for quite a while.
Zinho Vanheusden never ran into problems with Standard. “We owe it to ourselves. We gave 100% from the start, as the coach had asked. I am happy with the victory, the three goals and the fact that we did not get a goal ourselves. Especially after a European match , because that is not easy “, the young defender said. “I don’t know if you can already speak of a difference with last season. We will now play many games one after the other and everyone must be ready for that.” Vanheusden was in the starting line-up for the first time since his injury and was even captain. “It is an honor that the trainer gives me that confidence. I feel good, but I am not achieving my best level yet. That is normal, because I am just training again.”
Cercle Brugge KSV vs Eupen head to head matches
26.12.18 JL Cercle Brugge KSV Eupen 0 : 1
31.10.18 JL Eupen Cercle Brugge KSV 2 : 0
06.03.16 PL Eupen Cercle Brugge KSV 2 : 1
11.10.15 PL Cercle Brugge KSV Eupen 4 : 0
19.02.11 JL Eupen Cercle Brugge KSV 0 : 0