Anderlecht experienced an evening to forget this Thursday in Plzen. The worst match of the Mauves season, probably.
Colin Coosemans recognized quite easily that the Mauve & Blanc had played at a largely insufficient level this Thursday at the Doosan Arena. “We didn’t respond today. Not there in the duels, in the intensity… When you are not present on a football level, you have to win the duels and we didn’t do it “, regretted the goalkeeper.
“Our worst game of the season? Yes, it’s possible. We know we can do better than what we showed tonight. We’ve already proven it. But hey, maybe we took points in this competition where we didn’t think we would win”, underlines Coosemans then. “Here, we lost when we thought we were taking points. It’s a good lesson for the future.”
Leoni keeps a cool head
Theo Leoni preferred to keep smiling, even a little yellow, after such a match. “It’ll go quickly, right, there’s not much to say? It was bad, that’s it, goodbye (laughs). No, like I said, even if it wasn’t good, it “You don’t have to throw everything away,” the midfielder calmly puts things into perspective. “Everyone would have signed if we had said that Anderlecht would have a chance of being in the top 8 at this stage.”
-“We have to be honest, Viktoria Plzen were above us on every level. And football is also very mental: after 2 minutes, 1-0, after 10 minutes, penalty… There are evenings like that where it doesn’t work, there are others where it works for us”, estimates Leoni. “At Slavia, we have two chances, we lead 0-2. At Real Sociedad, we have to be honest, they could have taken something too.”
The objective now will be to finish the job at home against Hoffenheim. “It will be difficult, it’s Germany, they’re playing too… But I’ll be honest, everything will have been difficult in this competition. Riga, we’re joined at the end of the match; Prague, Sociedad, it’s was difficult. Now it’s up to us to do everything we can to get through, I don’t care how (smile).
