Coach Dominik Thalhammer was clear in the press conference: “If we score to make it 0-3 immediately after the break, we would win the match”, the Groen-Zwart coach started off. “We didn't and after that we made too many mistakes. With Utkus and Van Der Bruggen we also lost two players through injury in the match, so we had to make many changes in the team and that did not benefit our performance.”
Jesper Daland has been included in the Team of the Week by Eleven Sports and Sport/Voetbalmagazine. In HLN, our central defender was even named the best defender of matchday 22!
Thibo Somers was once again a scourge of the Eupen defense, playing a complete match and in the end the Cercle youth product was also able to break the deadlock, giving Cercle the lead fifteen minutes from time “It was a very difficult game for us, especially the first half. The game was closely fought for a long time and we didn't create many chances. Eupen played with a very low block and only attacked with long balls. In the second half we came out of the dressing room physically stronger and luckily we can take three points back to Bruges. We do hope that the supporters will be able to return to the stadium soon, because we do miss them.”