Hans Vanaken: "We felt it couldn't go wrong"

Club won convincingly against Standard, despite an early 0-1 deficit. Club did not panic and through Hans Vanaken, Club quickly came alongside again. After that, a dominant Blauw-Zwart was unstoppable.

"I think we started the match well," Limburger said. "But their first ball from a stoppage time fell wrong for us and then they scored the 0-1. Nevertheless, we didn't start doubting ourselves. We took control of the game the way we wanted to, namely with pressing forward and putting pressure on the player who had the ball. Soon you saw that Standard was in trouble and that we could be dominant. After my equalizer, it was on and on and we felt that this could not go wrong anymore."

After his suspension, Vanaken is gradually growing back to his best level. "It's natural that when you haven't played football for four weeks you have to play some games to get back into your normal rhythm. Today it felt a lot better than in the two previous games. If you can then also score goals, that creates a lot of confidence for the assignments still to come. The difference with our closest pursuers is now 14 points, which is obviously a nice gap. But we'll keep looking at it game by game and see where we are when the playoffs start soon." (FDC)