"Exhausted during second half"

Trainer Ariël Jacobs saw that his Anderlecht wasn’t as strong as its opponent. “Ajax has a lot of qualities: they were calm and always had a free man, and than it’s hard for us.”

"But I do find we stayed well organised. Because we were tired, we played less well in the second half and we couldn’t keep the ball. Van Damme got a stupid red card. It’s an unfortunate reaction in a game where nothing happened. But those left showed some character!”