Christian Burgess certainly does not have many admirers in the spans of the Lotto Park. This Sunday, during the Brussels derby, he still created the controversy during two phases in particular.
Christian Burgess has immense qualities, who propelled him among the best defenders of the Belgian championship and greatly participated in the coronation of the Saint-Gilloise Union last season. But the Englishman, charming outside the land, has more controversial aspects once on the lawn.
This Sunday, against RSC Anderlecht, Burgess greatly contributed to bringing the opponent out of his hinges.
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While Thorgan Hazard and Ross Sykes have been heating up for long minutes, his component in defense thus dropped in a fairly grotesque way after contact (which he went to get himself), twisted with “pain” … and pushing the referee to brandish a yellow card in Hazard.
Burgess what a clown and Hazard even gets yellow for it 🤡🤡🤡 #RSCA #usgand pic.twitter.com/Rqxw9EbO9g
— RSCA Fans (@rscafans) August 31, 2025
Less voluntary gesture, a few minutes later: on a center from the left, Christian Burgess tried a very clumsy intervention and sends the ball against his arm, which seemed quite apart from the body. Neither the referee nor the Var will intervene.
It was not the first time in the match that Burgess touched the ball in the rectangle: on a strike from Degreef, he clearly seemed to divert the ball in a position there still unnatural.
Good goalkeeper work from Burgess TBF pic.twitter.com/xkspoPA8r6
— ket (@bfrns_) August 31, 2025
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