Where Anderlecht and OHL dominated in the regular competition – Leuven didn’t even lose a single match – strangely enough they couldn’t win either of them in their first 2 matches, let alone take points.
OH Leuven counted 2 points more than Anderlecht for this top match. It had the necessary tension, but was not of the highest level. Anderlecht started well, but Wijnants missed an open goal chance just before the goal line.
The visitors could not immediately threaten, on the half hour mark Wijnants made up for her miss with an assist from the right: she saw Minnaert run into the 16 and Evrard fired at close range.
In the second half, OHL tapped out of a completely different vein. They pressed the home team against their own goal and forced a lot of great opportunities, but Van Dijk, Janssens and Cranshoff left them behind.
Based on the entire game, a division of points was at least justified for OHL, where the loss of the lead hits hard. A minor birthday for coach Jimmy Coenraets.
Anderlecht now has 1 point more than OHL in the ranking. There are 7 games left.
Anderlecht coach Dave Mattheus was delighted with the victory, although he also realized that things could have turned out differently in the second half. “In the first half we were very good, in the second half we lose control, because OHL plays all or nothing,” he said.
“We were under constant pressure because we couldn’t keep up with the ball a little bit. But we brought out our fighting spirit, I’m proud of my team that they were able to keep that up until the end.”
“After the 0 out of 6 it was a bit of a swallow, today we had a bit more luck. I am satisfied with the game of the first half and with the fighting spirit. This is not yet a decisive match, but an important one for the mental aspect.”
At OHL, on the other hand, it was a solid downer. “We miss too many opportunities,” he said Sari Kees. Great, otherwise I will listen to ITV’s Anderlecht women “We are often not efficient: we have 20 chances and we still don’t score. They have three chances and do score.”
“I think we lose very undeservedly here, Anderlecht also know that. The goal was a downer, but they didn’t touch our goal in the second half. The victory was ours, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. hard that we have now lost the leading position.”
