Club Brugge defeated Anderlecht with 2-1, with help of the referee. The game started at slow pace. Both sides kept defending pretty well.
After 30 minutes, referee De Bleeckere gave a red card to Birger Maertens, who kicked Jestrovic on his shoulder. Club continued the game with 10 and had 2 good chances. First, Ceh missed from 35 meters after a mistake of Zitka. The best chance was for Verheyen. He was forgotten by the Anderlecht defense, but missed. Anderlecht got one big chance. Seol centered and Crasson score with a nice header: 0-1.
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Continue reading After the break, the referee became man of the match. First De Boeck, got red for unknown reasons. Two minutes later, Jestrovic was pulled down in the box. Everybody expected a penalty, but De Bleeckere thought it was necessary to start a one-man-show and he gave the striker is second yellow card. Nastja Ceh (Brugge) was leading his team forward. De Cock equalised with a hard shot. A few minutes later, Brugge doubled the score through Clement: 2-1. Because of the bad leading referee, the game turned into a real boxing game. Anderlecht kept on fighting and almost equalised. Brugge almost scored on counter-attack. Man of the match was referee De Bleeckere, who found it necessary to decide over the game by disadvantaging Anderlecht.
Reactions: Hugo Broos and his entire team thought it was outrages.
Goals: 44' Crasson 0-1, 62' De Cock 1-1, 74' Clement 2-1 Club Brugge: Verlinden, De Cock, Clement, Maertens, Van Der Heyden, Englebert, Simons, Ceh (84' Geeraerts), Verheyen (46' Serebrennikov), Martens, Mendoza (92' Smolders) Anderlecht: Zitka, Crasson, De Boeck, Tihinen, Deschacht (84' De Bilde), Aruna (56' Hendrikx), Baseggio, Vanderhaeghe, Zewlakow, Seol, Jestrovic Red cards: 32' Maertens, 49' De Boeck (2x geel) 51' Jestrovic (2x geel) Referee: De Bleeckere
