Philippe Clement: "We were too little killer"

After the handsome win against Zenit, an anti-climax followed against OHL. Blauw-Zwart played a good game and also got numerous chances, but was not efficient enough. Philippe Clement had little to blame his players for.

"I said in the locker room that I saw a lot of good things. It's not easy to get free against a team that constantly plays man coverage, but my players actually did well and played that strict man coverage well. The mentality was good, but you have to finish the chances. We were not efficient enough and as a result we shot ourselves in the foot. We have to look at ourselves and make sure that finishing is better the next matches. In soccer, it's all about one thing: finishing chances and getting results. And we failed to do that today."

The Bruges coach did not want to blame the defeat on European soccer and the rapid succession of matches. "We know we want to play European and I didn't see a team that was tired either. At the end we took a lot of risks, which meant we didn't play compact anymore and could have grabbed another goal against. We were too little killer today. If you get in front of the goalie four times alone, you have to score more often. In that case you win easily. I don't have a negative feeling about any player, but of course I do have a negative feeling about the result. Being that killer has to come out even more. We just have to be sharper in finishing and make the right choices in the sixteen yards. We have been efficient in other matches though, so I see no reason why this match should affect our confidence." (SF)