Without Toby Alderweireld, Antwerp was shaken but still managed to remain solid at the Guldensporenstadion against a team urgently lacking points.
The international break comes at just the right time for the Antwerp defender to recover, however, according to Jonas De Roeckit is not yet certain whether Alderweireld will be back against Dender.
“It’s an injury that needs time to heal. I hope we can have him back for the match against Dender after the break, but that’s not certain. We’ll have to evaluate his injury week by week,” he said. explained the Antwerp coach in comments taken up by Het Nieuwsblad.
The latter also expressed his satisfaction after his team’s victory, even if the end of the game was stressful: “I was happy with the 0-1 at half-time then we scored 0-2 shortly after the break , an ideal moment We thought we had taken a big step towards victory but that’s when we relaxed. There was the misfortune that Zeno Van Den Bosch scored against his side. We know then. that from there, the players from Kortrijk will re-motivate themselves and play hard. We really felt this match change.”
Antwerp continues to gain points
“I’m proud of my team because we had a lot of young players and they really kept working for each other. Senne Lammens also played a very good game. Maybe we should have been a little sharper in the conversion at the end, but I’m very happy with the three points And even though we had difficulties at the end, based on the first 55 minutes, the victory was deserved”, punctuates the coach.
Given the internal turmoil within Matricule 1 at the start of the season, notably financial concerns, and the departure of Mark Van Bommel, we thought that Antwerp would experience a complicated season. However, Jonas De Roeck and his men go against all this and even play the leading roles at the top of the rankings.
