No Champions’ Play-offs for KAA Gent. However, everyone expected coach Hein Vanhaezebrouck’s team to be within the top six.
With Union SG, RSC Anderlecht, Royal Antwerp FC, Club Brugge, Cercle Brugge and KRC Genk, there are very nice play-off matches ahead.
You can’t really call it a surprise that those teams reached the top six. “Not really. They are the expected teams. Only KAA Gent is the major absentee,” says Bart Raes to De Zondag.
However, KAA Gent certainly belonged in the Champions’ Play-offs and Raes has more than his reasons and praise for that.
KAA Gent will have a hard time reaching European football
“Based on the football they showed in the fall, I think it’s a shame that they won’t be there. At that time they played the best football of all the teams in the highest division.”
But during the winter mercato, the club’s board intervened. “Unfortunately, the board of KAA Gent chose to sell three good attackers. That’s certainly hurting them now.”
It remains to be seen whether KAA Gent will succeed in securing European football for next season. That assignment will not be easy at all, given the path the club has fallen into.
In any case, the current situation is in stark contrast to the situation in August. At that time the Buffalos were even called an outsider for the national title, but it did not come to that at all.
2024-03-24 21:00:00
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