Anderlecht illushed, but Bruges was clinical this Sunday. At the end of the meeting, the Mauves pushed until they believe it, but too late: the cup is for the club!
Who said that there could not be any atmosphere at the King Baudouin stadium? The ultra sectors of the two clubs had set fire, literally and figuratively, for this Croky Cup final. On the Anderlechtois side, above all, we felt the measurement of the event: Tifo XXL, mass smoke bombs – everything was mobilized to push the Mauves to their first trophy since 2017.
And for a long time, the debates will have been much more balanced for a long time than you might have thought. The game is Bruges, of course: some losses of the ball leave too much space in Tzolis, which unscrews (13th), then force Cosemans at the first stop (15th).
Anderlecht is in the match … until goal
But Anderlecht answers well, we go from one rectangle to another: Huerta and Hazard are in legs, combine … but they always lack the last gesture, inspiration. Siquet sends a very dangerous first center (20th), as a warning. Moussa N’Diaye will not take note, despite a large jerk of Jan-Carlo Simic.
Hans Vanaken is not at best: a big loss of ball lets spinning Hazard, who does not take advantage (27th). Bruges answers: With too much space from the start, Jashari sends a heavy distant strike that COOSEMANS must come out (31st).
The RSCA, well in its match, then obtains the best occasions: corner on corner, often poorly given, and above all a beautiful pass from Dendoncker who finds Huerta whose shot is soft and on Jackers (40th). It is at this moment that the Blauw & Zwart strike: N’Diaye lets siquet center, Maamar does not hold Romeo vermant At the second post (40th, 1-0). It’s cruel, and it takes Sporting out of his match: Jashari borders on the break in the process, Simic must tear down to prevent Tzolis from being at the reception of a center (45th).
The double of vermant
It has been said this season for a long time that the Bruges club was only lacking in one thing: a real top scorer. And it seems that for a few weeks he has found it. Indeed, if his first goal was that of a real fox, the goal of the station wagon that will inscribe Romeo vermant In the 62nd on the first dangerous phase of Bruges in the second period is much more difficult, in a time on a nice center of Jashari.
Before that? Some incursions from an Anderlecht that Bruges lets play quietly, without being too much worried despite the Arabesques of Edozie to which this little something is always missing. The only little fear: which looked very like one hand in the rectangle from Vanaken (55th).
Then, will therefore fall this second goal, at the end of which the speaker must once again remind the supporters of the two camps that the match will be stopped if they continue to flood the heysel plateau of blue, black, purple and white smoke. On the RSCA side, we lost the desire to party, especially since at the same time, the sharing of the Bayer Leverkusen Sacre le Bayern of Kompany: wins him trophies, as he had sworn after the final lost in 2022.
An end of the electric match
Anderlecht’s increasingly desperate attempts seem to be lost, despite Stroeykens, Angulo, Vazquez and – Beautiful Symbol – Vertonghen. Bruges, however, misses the KO ball via Christos Tzolis: Simic releases on the line (89th). A detail? Not really: on yet another edozie overflow, the English winger finds Luis Vazquez Behind the back and it is suddenly very hot (2-1, 90th+1).
Worse: a new potential hand on a very confused phase is not reported or revised by the Var, which brings out the Anderlechtian bench from its hinges. Bruges will have trembled, in a very tense atmosphere, but Bruges indeed raises the Belgian Cup (2-1). One thing is certain, however: there will still be tension around the stadium in the coming hours …
