Standard suffered another defeat on the Mechelen pitch last night. The young Rouches showed character but that was not enough.
With the new changes made by Ivan Leko for the very last match of the Standard season, Wilfried Kanga inherited the captain’s armband. Enough to reward him for his self-sacrifice for several months but not really console him given the team’s new defeat.
“We didn’t start well. There were a lot of changes. System, players. Many weren’t there. We had to create something very quickly” he declared on RTBF.
A match ultimately symptomatic of a complicated season from start to finish: “Ups and downs, but above all a lot of downs. We did not achieve our objectives. A lot of frustration and a lot of negative things influenced our football “.
Wilfried Kanga, a future as uncertain as ever
The team’s top scorer (12 goals) is on loan from Hertha Berlin. Standard would like to have him loaned for another season, but that won’t be easy: “I don’t know yet, it’s still too early. We’ll see what we decide with my agents,” he says. respond.
He still wants to believe in the club’s recovery, with or without him: “The Standard remains a big club, with big supporters. It can’t flow like that. There is a structure and young people growing behind it. I hope there will be better days.”
