After the most painful 45 minutes under Leko: will a “drift kicker like Vormer” emerge against Kairat Almaty at Club Brugge?
Club Brugge gave away a 2-0 lead against La Louvière with 10 men in the second half on Friday. Ivan Leko called it the “worst, most painful 45 minutes” he had ever experienced at Club. The 90 Minutes panel does not understand why Ordonez’s decline after the red card was so great. And with the important Champions League match against Kairat Almaty coming up, they think that Club needs a type of player like Ruud Vormer.
Opinions are still divided about Joel Ordonez’s red card. 5 minutes before the end of the first half, the Club Brugge defender had to take a shower because he had brought down Jerry Afriyie as the last man.
Filip Joos agrees in 90 minutes with the decision of the referee and the VAR, because Ordonez was beaten, while Sam Kerkhofs, Steven Defour and Tuur Direckx would not have given a red card.
But the fact is that Club Brugge, which was 2-0 ahead at the time, gave up its double bonus in the second half with 10 to 11. It was still 2-3. Ivan Leko called it the “worst and most painful 45 minutes” at Club, but did not want to point to the red card as a direct cause.
But Joos cannot ignore the fact that the red card influenced the match. “The impact is there,” he says in the podcast. “If he gives a yellow card, Club wins.”
Joos admits that the result in the second half is “exaggerated” and Kerkhofs also believes that the red card should not have that much impact.
Joos saw Club Brugge attack again after the 2-3. “Somehow that was understandable by La Louvière, but it also has to do with what you put in your head. Oops, one man less.”
Combine that with “a number of guys out of shape” and easy goals conceded, and then you get that implosion.
Need a Shaper?
Kerkhofs thinks that Club Brugge could use a warrior in midfield. “I really have the feeling that they are missing a Vormer. Not in terms of football, because I think they now have a better footballing midfield.”
“But that you have someone on the field who is going to say: it’s not going to happen here. Over our dead bodies that this is happening.”
Defour nods: “You need a bastard, a quick-tempered person, who can also make fun of his own players.”
“That’s not Vanaken either,” Joos adds, to which Defour responds: “That’s not Vanaken, that’s not Onyedika either.”
You need a bastard, a temper tantrum who can also screw up his own players.
Steven Defour
During a difficult period in the match, Vormer would have his added value. “In some competitions you need a Shaper who will wake everyone up at a certain moment.”
According to Kerkhofs, it doesn’t even have to be verbal. But purely by taking up the fight.
“Actually, what you are saying now is: by taking life and football head on,” says Joos. “And so even if you are 10th by showing: we are Club Brugge. By barking, and now you have crawled into your room.”
“You were afraid that something would happen to make it happen,” Kerkhofs concludes.
Although Club will mainly hope that things will not go wrong again against Kairat Almaty.
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