Under pressure
Coaches Simon Davies and Vincent Kompany are under immense pressure these days as they started out with a dreadfull 2 points out of 5 games. And just then the all-time rivals of Standard de Liège came to the Lotto Park. No Samir Nasri in the starting eleven, nor on the bench. He was ill all week, and has not yet recovered enough. Kompany himself pulled a hamstring last game, and is out of the selection too. Elias Cobbaut replaces him in the centre of the defense. Vlap starts on the bench for the first time, Saelemaekers gets his first starting game of the season.
Nacer Chadli dueling with Cimirot
Anderlecht starts with a lot of positional play and ball possession, as it has been drilled by Vincent Kompany. That has been the case in the previous games too, but scoring is oh so hard these days at Anderlecht. Can they finish today? Standard disappoints, especially when they have the ball, they do very little with it. It's like they left their creativity at home.
Alexis Saelemaekers has scored
After 35 minutes Anderlecht scores after a smart heel of Chadli onto Saelemaekers, who scored with his tip in the far corner. Anderlecht should have had a penalty earlier after a clear foul of Bokadi on Gerkens. But even the VAR didn't correct the referee here, strange. Just before half time Anderlecht could have scored the 2-0 through Vlap, who replaced the injured Gerkens. But Vlap missed the chance.
2nd half, more Standard pressure
The second half was less enjoyable to watch, but Standard became better, and had 2 chances, but Van Crombrugge kept his goal clear on chances from Cimirot and Mpoku. Both teams get chances to score, but nobody does it eventually. A long awaited and hard fought victory for new-style Anderlecht. Finally they can look in front of them instead of behind. Standard disappointed after a very good start in this season.
Simon Davies and Vincent Kompany smiling before the game, now they can smile after one too
If Anderlecht can land a decent striker just before the end of the transfer window, then maybe, even the near future can be bright.
Sincerely,
Pele23
Strange because it was their worst game of the season. But happy they won. This will give the lads confidence which they did need and deserve.
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Yeah, I feel the creativity. Though I haven't watched much about Belgian league, I think creativity is very important to a team that holds most of the possession because it is very prone to counter-attack.
Wishing things will turn out for Anderlecht soon.
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That takes the pressure of Kompany for a while!! Any news on when our old boy Roofe is going be back from injury and make an appearance?
Great write-up by the way :-)
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No idea, but even on the last day of the transfer window they didn't get another striker. So, they must have good faith in him and his injury.
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Yeah, I really think he will thrive there so patience I guess. We were told 6 weeks soI guess hes back in training and ready to go after in the intl. break maybe! I can't wait to see how he does there.
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The ball is still round and there are still lots of opportunities.
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