Hans Vanaken: "Our core is broad enough to absorb Charles's loss"

Club fell behind 0-1 against FC Antwerp, but in five minutes the lopsided situation was rectified by a header goal by Odoi and a penalty by Hans Vanaken.

"Surely we made a statement with that clear 4-1 victory," Hans Vanaken opened his press talk. "I think we just had to win today and especially because it was against a direct rival for playoff 1. We just wanted to show that we are ready for that last straight towards playoffs and we succeeded pretty well in that I think. I've been telling it for a couple of weeks that with a new coach and a couple of new players we need a little bit of time to see the best Club Brugge can be, especially since the current coach wants to put new emphases, hence. With this performance we hope that we can maintain that level and maybe grow in the coming games."

And then Charles De Ketelaere did not participate yet, and yet Club already reached a high level. "Indeed, Charles in unfortunate dropped out at training, but we have shown that our core is wide enough to accommodate even something like that and then it doesn't matter who plays in his place. Adamyan, his replacement, worked very hard and scored, could also keep the ball well and so you see everyone has to be ready to step in. Now, we fell behind 0-1 in an unfortunate way, but fortunately we were able to score against pretty quickly and regain the upper hand with a penalty converted by me. In the second half, too, we were able to maintain our level pretty well and it still ended up being a pretty big 4-1 victory."