A reaction from Hugo Siquet, Maxim De Cuyper and coach Nicky Hayen after the lost game against Standard.
Hugo Siquet: "Didn't bring the pressure we wanted to bring"
After a disappointing match, Hugo Siquet responded soberly: "We didn't bring the pressure and aggressiveness today that we wanted to bring. It is certainly not a lack of automatisms, but the speed of execution and intensity needs to be higher. For me personally, it's a new environment, a new system, but I'm working as hard as I can in training to integrate as quickly as possible. It was my first starting place today and I focused on my game, not the environment." (KV)
Maxim De Cuyper: "It just wasn't good enough today."
Blue-Black went down 1-0 at Standard's field, missing its start. The substitute Maxim De Cuyper made no bones about it in his brief analysis afterwards: "You can indeed say that Club played an unrecognizable game. I think especially in the first half we played with too little depth, something we tried to rectify after the break in order to create more chances, but it made little difference. Starting with one on six was not the intention to start the new season. Today just wasn't good enough." (FDC)
Nicky Hayen: "Just not enough at the moment"
Nicky Hayen: "I'm not satisfied with my team's performance. If you see with what abandon Standard defended that 1-0 and tried to block every cross, we didn't match that today. We had a lot of ball possession, but also did far too little with it. We still fail to make the pace and impose our will."
"However, the intensity at training last week was high. If you see which 'killer passes' we can make at training and which lines we can break open under high pressure, it's a shame we can't do that in the game. Those spaces were there today as well if you circulate that ball quickly. If you don't play that vertical ball in and play too slow around the block, they can run that. It's just not enough at this point."
"We swallowed an easy goal in the second half. Again, then it's about drive, intensity and the will not to take a goal against. We are going to analyze this match very extensively and present it to the players. That 1-on-6 is sour and we absolutely wanted to avoid it. We have to switch that button again and work towards next week," concluded a disappointed Club coach. (TM)