Qualified for the knockout stages of the Conference League, still present in the Belgian Cup and in the race for a ticket for the playoffs in the league: La Gantoise could be the only club still involved on all fronts after the winter.
And it is the goal of Hein Vanhaezebrouck who insisted: no question of running Lommel on Wednesday, he will line up the best possible team to try to overcome the Limburg obstacle and reach the quarter-finals of the Coupe de Belgium.
But the Buffalos coach tried his hand at the game of comparisons (with Antwerp, eliminated as soon as he entered the Belgian Cup and also assured of his elimination on the European scene) and he should not have. He apologized for it, in a press release published by the Gantoise on Wednesday.
“When I was asked if it wouldn’t be too hard to be still active in three competitions early next year, I said that’s what we wanted. And that we didn’t want to do like Antwerp, explaining that they wanted to fight for the title in May and that, for that, they had not opted for the other competitions. It was a mistake, ”admits HVH.
“Obviously, Antwerp did not choose to be eliminated in the other competitions. I therefore apologize to my colleague, Brian Priske, to his staff, to the players, but also to the management of Antwerp ”, adds Hein Vanhaezebrouck.
