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On Wednesday evening the Crystal Arena can prepare itself for the arrival of “The Great Old”. This is how Royal Antwerp comes to visit KRC Genk. The number six takes on the number five in the ranking. A nice poster, that is. Both teams feel the hot breath of a number of teams in order not to fall out of the top six, which is the goal for both of them this year. Can Genk keep the three points at home in front of its own audience or does Antwerp keep their exhaustion high?
Genk:
Given the rankings, there is little to dispute about the results of the national champion. Yet it can and must count on more as one of the title favorites. For example, after eleven games played with nineteen points, it is in sixth place in the rankings. The objective of the Limburgers is, just like in previous years, to get a European ticket and if possible at the highest level, namely the Champions League. Last weekend the red lantern Cercle Bruges came to visit.
Both teams started the game considerably changed for different reasons. In a very busy period for Genk, Mazzu threw five fresh players into his starting line-up, Storck went through his selection with the big brush and opted for six new pawns. Not that Cercle seemed better, because it started with the tail between the legs. Ndongala and Onuachu already warned the anxious visitors, but they had not yet understood. The bulky Dewaest got two men out and put the ball in the corner. Cercle seemed ready for the slaughter after the early 1-0, but apparently it needed a slap in the face to wake up. Serrano hit the side net after sloppy Genk’s ball loss. Gory collided with a deviated shot at Coucke, who also had to take Donsah and Peeters’ distance attempts. Genk played more and more stiffly, until suddenly there was improvement in the end of the first half. However, Hubert was always in the way and successively kept Onuachu, Hrosovsky and Cuesta from 2-0. Genk could not continue the five better minutes just before the break. It was even Cercle Brugge that immediately threatened after the edge change. Gory, however, had no eye for his mates and shot into the side net. What followed was a long period of moderate football, with Cercle actually putting pressure on. While the Genk supporters in the Luminus Arena became increasingly annoyed, Hazard came nastyly close to the equalizer. The third brother sent De Norre into the forest, but lost his calm and went for the unique opportunity. The football of the national champion silted up so much that a few balls were regularly thrown away blindly. The Bruges reservoir gradually became empty and Genk was able to move again. The escaped Ito bumped into Hubert and Onuachu aimed closely, leaving the buttocks pinching until the last minute. In it, Gory clashed with Coucke from close in on the substitute debutant Somers, who thus avoided a disgrace.
Match winner Sébastien Dewaest had also seen that Genk was not great. “It’s a shared feeling,” the captain scratched himself behind his husband. “We take three points and strengthen our place in the top six, but then there is the second half. I don’t want to call it a disaster, but we gave hope to our opponent. We no longer worked as a team and thought it would be easy “, Dewaest looked for an explanation. “In the end, our keeper still had to make a good save. We had the opportunity to kill the match, but we didn’t finish it. That was in the image of our last matches, in which we were also not defensively solid enough. That keeping the zero tonight is a positive point. ” Does Dewaest feel his goal as a revenge? “Of course. It’s never nice to sit on the couch a few times. I could understand after Salzburg, but not after Standard. I talked about that with the coach.”
Royal Antwerp:
Antwerp is no longer the team that is seen as a small team. Even today it is seen as one of the fixed values in play-off I. This is also due to very nice transfers two years in a row. Even now, after eleven games played, it is in a very good fifth place with twenty points in the rankings. After a lesser period (two out of nine), it managed to start again last weekend with a win at home against KV Kortrijk.
After a meager two out of nine, Antwerp urgently needed a victory, but it was Kortrijk that started the game with the most grinta. However, the number of goal chances remained limited: halfway through the first half, Mboyo was first close to the opening goal, but he hit the post. Only after half an hour could the home team manifest more in the zone of truth. Lamkel She ran into goalie Bruzzese, a Benson place ball curled over the goal. At the very end of a closed first half, a goal fell from the sky. Kovacevic emphatically held Mbokani by a corner, ref Boucaut pointed to the spot. Kevin Mirallas did not fail and scored his first goal ever in the Belgian highest class. Antwerp took no peace with that narrow lead and flew in firmly after the break. That quickly produced results, thanks to a fantastic inspiration from Lamkel Ze. He brushed the ball from outside the sixteen meters wonderfully in the square, Bruzzese could only look at it. Kortrijk tried to respond, but did not go beyond a disallowed goal by Mboyo. At Antwerp it all suddenly succeeded. After an effort by Mirallas, the substitute Rodrigues was able to push in the decisive 3-0. The 3-1 of Stojanovic caused some unrest in the back of Antwerp, but Kortrijk didn’t get any further. The three points remained on the Bosuil.
Laszlo Bölöni was pleased that his team could return with a three-point goal: “We had a nervous start, with many technical errors as a result. That penalty came at the ideal moment for us. After the break, we accelerated well, and that also produced results. Yet a lesser period followed with us again. This time it did not affect the result, but we continue to work hard to get it out. ”
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