"Yes, what can I say?" were the first words of the Bruges closing goalie. "We were certainly not satisfied from the first half where I had to make no less than eight saves and that in a home game. No, we couldn't be satisfied with that. Finally, I'm glad that after all those saves, I was able to pull out the winner. We were 1-2 down just after halftime and then you think, oops, all the work will be for nothing, but in the end we found a way to take the three points and we are most satisfied with that. We also know that the first half has to be much better, and we have to learn the necessary lessons from that. So you see that after only three weeks of preparation, we have two difficult victories: the super cup against Gent and the opening game against Racing Genk. They were far already certain of easy wins, and just now in that heat, but it could have been worse."
All in all then, the 1-1 at halftime was still a fair result. So what was said in the locker room? "Oh well, not much was said though, we knew we would have to approach it differently," Simon Mignolet said. "We had to start winning duels in the first place, because we hardly did that for the first 45 minutes. We were too flat in every aspect and then you have to know how to counter that with a reaction. That's what we did It's something that does live in our locker room that you always have to try to find the mentality to fight back through different soccer and we succeeded in that in the end. Of course the outside world always wants us to win and especially then the Club supporter, but for us it is that we can learn a lot from that first half. The coach had already said that in the opening phase of the new league we had to find a way to win, but that it was going to be very difficult. We have done that now, well not with the prettiest soccer, but the these three points are very important against a really difficult opponent." (FDC)