Anderlecht collapse again after the break

Place, this Sunday afternoon, following the seventh day of Pro League with the clash between Anderlecht and Antwerp. The Mauves stay on a win (against Standard), line up without Kompany (injured), but with Chadli as captain and pivot point. On the Antwerp side, defender Defour plays his first minutes of the season against his former team.

The game really starts in the 9th minute of play with a sending of Flap. The scorer does not evolve and the game is dominated … by duels. Chadli and Lamkel Ze try to shine, but the first period is not very exciting.

Boloni shares this view and shakes his elements at the break. In four minutes, Antwerp has four opportunities. The fourth, in the 49th minute, hit home. After a ball lost by Saelemaekers, Mbokani isolates Refaelov. The median recovers twice to deceive Van Crombrugge (0-1).

The storm is over, the Mauves can think of taking the head out of the water. This is done in the 54th through Verschueren. The phase inspires Chadli, well started by Sandler. The Red Devil slightly deflects the ball from the head, enough to deceive Bolat in the 65th and score his first goal for the RSCA (1-1).

Antwerp is coming back to Van Crombrugge’s goal and the Belgian goalkeeper has two excellent performances. The Antwerpians push, Anderlecht pushes back. Even when Lokonga, good enough this Sunday, gets his second yellow card and Haroun finds the post, head, on the free-kick that follows. Or when Lamkel Ze tries a powerful shot.

We are heading for a share … but Miyoshi gives the final lead to the 87th to Antwerp an unstoppable send for Van Crombrugge (1-2). The RSCA cashed its fourth defeat of the season and remains stuck in 13th place of the Belgian elite with five units. The Antwerp, meanwhile, climbs to 3rd place (12 points).

Anderlecht, despite his 1-0 win against Standard at Clasico just before the international break, was still at the foot of the wall on Sunday afternoon at Parc Astrid, where he faced Antwerp, another tenor of the Jupiler Pro Football League, on behalf of the seventh day. A duel that in view of the composition of the two teams, Steven Defour and Kevin Mirallas being part of the Antwerp side, announced high level. He was, but especially in the second half, where the mauves, beaten 1-2, owe it to their goalkeeper Hendrik Van Crombrugge to have escaped a real thaw. The goal of the victory was scored in the 87th by the Japanese Koji Miyoshi (22), four minutes after his first entry into the game in Jupiler Pro League…

From the show, there was a little, but not enough, and without real danger for the two goalkeepers, in the first half.

Anderlecht was enterprising but the Antwerp, well organized and cautious, was standing up to an opponent whose efficiency in the end zone is not the strong point since the beginning of the season. And when a team is unable to score, it is well known that the opponent often manages to counterattack. This happened precisely after several alerts at the beginning of the second half.

In the third, indeed, Lior Refaelov, cleverly served by Dieumerci Mbokani after a loss of Alexis Saelemaekers ball, indeed deceived Van Crombrugge in two stages (0-1, 49th). Defour retired in favor of Alexis De Sart after an hour of play. Anderlecht equalized five minutes later by Nacer Chadli who, despite Dino Arslanagic, lobbed Sinan Bolat with a long pass from Philippe Sandler (1-1, 65). Antwerp then began to panic the purple defense, but not Van Crombrugge, firefighter.

The ex-Eupenois rejected a beautiful shipment of Refaelov, then miraculously ahead to point Mirallas (66th and 67th).

Anderlecht found himself at ten after the unfortunate exclusion – second yellow card – from Albert Sambi Lokonga, very applauded, in the 77th.

Faris Haroun fooled Van Crombrugge with a free-kick from Refaelov, but the picket saved the keeper in the form (78 ‘). Mirallas then faded for Amara Baby but held for 80 minutes.

However, the other Antwerp reservist, the Japanese Miyoshi, four minutes after replacing Refaelov in the 83rd, who was going to sanction the disorganized defense Sporting, striking out of range of Van Crombrugge after a bad return of Michel Vlap (1 -2, 87e). Antwerp, third with 12 points out of 18, while waiting for the shock The Giant (10 points) – Mechelen (11 points) of 18 hours, thus erases its defeat (2-0) to Zulte Waregem.

Anderlecht, thirteenth, remains him in the bottom of the right column with 5 points out of 21, before moving to Club Brugge next Sunday. But the fans who cheered the team on the final whistle, are still behind their players. Adrien Trebel was once more a simple spectator …