Big contact around the 70th minute between Daan Heymans and Christiaan Ravych. The Cercle de Bruges defender was forced out, and even had to go to the hospital.
The images were quite spectacular and, immediately, we thought that there could be red cards in the air. Clumsily, Daan Heymans’ elbow had struck Christian Ravich in the face, and the scars of the blow were immediately visible: the Cercle defender was bleeding profusely.
As he left, Ravych, furious, made large gestures towards Heymans, but also towards the fourth referee and the Sporting Charleroi staff. According to him, it was very clear: his opponent should have taken a red card, and not a yellow.
“I’m a decent player, I’ve never been booked for this kind of thing before,” explained Daan Heymans, visibly sorry, after the match. “We went to the duel, he touched me, I touched him. I had no intention of hurting him, I know Christiaan off the field.”
-We readily believe Heymans, a very decent player indeed… but the fact is that red cards were shown for less than that. “I tried to apologize to him, but he had already left for the hospital,” the Zebra concluded.
Indeed, Christiaan Ravych had to be taken to hospital. THE Newspaper reveals that he is suffering from an injury to his nose and eye socket, possibly a fracture. We will know on Monday if the Arbitration Department considers that this gesture deserved the red…
