There will always be time to take out the calculator this Wednesday evening to work out the different favorable scenarios on this evening of January 29 which promises to swing in all directions.
But for Bruges, the idea will be to go and challenge Manchester City without returning with a suitcase to continue the journey in this competition. Which is not yet a given, but Bruges is off to a really good start.
With 11 points in 7 games, the Bruges have come a long way to secure a place in the top 24, with the prospect of playing two play-off matches which will make their schedule even heavier. While also filling the boxes. And maybe the souvenir albums.
As much to be honest, this meeting will not overshadow that of April 12, 1978 when Lambert, Vandereycken and other Leekens, these heroes honored this Tuesday, had brought down the Old Lady to reach the final in what was then called the Champion Clubs’ Cup.
But it confirms the rise in power of the people of Bruges on the European scene. And the slap administered by Dortmund to start this campaign seems a long way off. Like this time when Belgian clubs, when coming up against the big houses of the continent, each time ended the match having often played well but losing almost systematically to feed more and more regrets. Carried away by their naivety and their lack of culture of the highest level at altitudes where nothing is really forgiven.
But this team learned its lesson. In this type of evening, wanting to win is commendable. Knowing how not to lose is much more profitable. Even more so against Juventus who have only lost… twice in 30 matches this season now.
-Bruges did not have the weapons of Stuttgart and AC Milan, defeaters of the Turinese in C1 and Supercup but displayed this maturity which can allow it to see far with figures which nourish a certain form of respect and a series of invincibility which stretches over its last 18 matches, the Club’s longest since 2015, era of Vazquez, Izquierdo, Refaelov and Preud’homme.
In this match where we had to wait until the… 85th minute to see the first shot on target signed Locatelli magnificently released by Mignolet, Nilsson was also dangerous and could have done better on this acrobatic recovery from close range (74th) which, like this head of Koopmeiners, missed (71st).
Which did not prevent Jan-Breydel from exulting. Because he has a good chance of experiencing at least one more Champions League evening this season.
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