Sporting could have returned with a tennis score
David Hubert has tried a rotation in a dense calendar, but his nucleus is too limited for the moment. They are little among reservists to be able to claim a better status. Leoni, who received a new chance after two games on the bench, will not have made his coach want to see him right away. And yet, some holders could open the debate. It is not laughing that will say the opposite.
Plzen scored two goals on Thursday, missed a penalty and shot Cosemans three times. Beaten for the first time in Europe this season, Sporting can just be happy not to be ridiculed in the figures. He could have qualified directly in the Top 8, avoiding a sudden death tour in addition, but he deserved nothing at all in the cradle of beer. It will be necessary to make a result next week against Hoffenheim at the Lotto Park to still hope to tear this privilege.
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Hubert’s missed bet
To want to rest his executives, Hubert will perhaps inflict two more games in the infernal calendar of February, between the championship and the semi-final return of the Belgian Cup. With the points lost in Pro League in recent weeks, the coach said to himself that his mixed eleven would be enough against a team of Czechies who had not played an official match for 39 days. Missed bet.
-There are obviously the three winter recruits (Adryelson, Huerta and Hey) that Hubert can use Sunday against Mechelen but the workforce is not very deep anyway. In the stands Thursday evening, Olivier Renard cannot yet put away his address book. He must continue to take advantage of the transfer window to strengthen an excessively limited kernel in width. He advises him to first look for a center-forward, even if Dolberg is hoped for quickly. As is too often the case, Vazquez has displayed all its limits. Techniques, tactics, physical and whatever you want. With him, the RSCA plays ten, with no support for the players behind him.
You have to hope for Belgian football and its coefficient thatnderlecht will not have a too bitter taste by thinking about its trip to Plzen, a city twinned in … Liège for sixty years. That it is only an accident on a journey and not the start of the end of a European campaign which still seemed so promising before coming in bohemian.
