Union Saint-Gilloise travel to Bayer Leverkusen at 9 p.m. in the quarter-finals of the Europa League. The meeting will be broadcast on Auvio and Tipik.
“The Union must believe in it, even though Bayer Leverkusen are in really good shape and are currently one of the best teams in the Bundesliga. I think it will be a tougher opponent than Union Berlin. […] There will be the pressure of a European Cup quarter-final. Sometimes we overuse this sentence a little, ‘yes the pressure will not be on the Union, they have nothing more to lose’. But in fact if you play a quarter-final of the European Cup, you’re going to be tense, that’s normal. It’s a great moment in your career, they may never experience that again, the Union Saint-Gilloise players… So they’re going to have a ball in their stomachs, that’s normal. It’s all about knowing how to transform this lump in your stomach in a positive way, with stress that turns into a conquering state of mind. Or else the guys are going to be paralyzed on the pitch. I think that will be the key for Union Saint-Gilloise, it’s to ignore that moment and play the matches they are used to playing in the big games this season. They have a lot of quality, they have to try to trust each other.“
Bayer Leverkusen’s journey: Ferencvaros in eighth, Monaco in sixteenth, third in Group B in the Champions League (FC Porto, Club Brugge, Atlético de Madrid)
Union Saint-Gilloise course: Union Berlin in eighth, exempted from sixteenth, first in group D (with Union Berlin, Braga, Malmo)
Stat de forme du Bayer Leverkusen en championship : V – V – V – V – V
State of form of Union Saint-Gilloise in the league: N – V – V – V – V
** V (Victory), D (Loss), N (Draw/share)
