Club Brugge and Zulte Waregem open sixteen. After the interland break, the teams took the return lap of the regular season. Can Club recover after a disappointing six in fifteen? Or does Waregem continue the way up?
Club Brugge KV :
Mixed feelings halfway through the regular competition with the current national champion. Disabled in the cup against an amateur club and the recent weak form in the competition. On the other hand, they have shown themselves in the Champions League and that was the big goal for New Year. Club Brugge has to start the back-end with a slightly battered team. With Stefano Denswil, one basic player will not be present. Emmanuel Dennis can return to Essevee after a month’s absence and Benoît Poulain was back on training.
Club Brugge seems on its way to European wintering by winning in and against AS Monaco. More than likely this summer follows an exodus with regard to a few players on which it will be able to cash in. One of them is Wesley Moraes, who once again surfaced this season. The Brazilian is already ten goals and four assists over all competitions. Its market value has already risen to more than ten million euros.
Blue-black made the move to Charleroi before the interland break. Via Hans Vanaken, Club took the lead after eleven minutes. Charleroi did not play anything ready in the first half hour, and lumbered in the back. Club forgot to finish his chances. After the failure of Denswil, there were two new names in the three-man defense. Not ideal which quickly resulted in a very nice equalizer. In the second half, we were shown an open duel, with Charleroi especially breaking out a few times. In the end it was the home team who managed to cash in another chance.
Waregem:
Zulte Waregem took an important victory against Sporting Lokeren and can therefore breathe a little more slowly. It took two weeks to prepare for the meeting with Club Brugge. ‘We went into an interland break with a different feeling’, says Francky Dury. ‘We already had to do that with a bad feeling, now it was with a good feeling. But we have to keep working. ”
The final match of the first round was a real relegation topper with Waregem and Lokeren on the field. Hesitant. Otherwise we can not describe how both teams came for the day. In a particularly moderate first half, the sloppiness and flaws rained. The visitors showed the most initiative, but we did not see many great opportunities. With two goals in the last five minutes, Nill De Pauw gave his team the leading three runs with two goals.
It was again working for Francky Dury. He gave instructions to his players for 90 minutes. ‘For us this is an important victory. That we also keep the zero is also important. We will have a lesser period, but this is the only way to save us. The team that will best keep focus on their own actions will succeed in a heavy and intense relegation struggle between a number of teams. ‘
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.55
