Take advantage of Antwerp, Ghent and Charleroi’s loss of points and watch in a relaxed manner tomorrow as Club Brugge and Union take each other’s points. This is what the ideal scenario must have looked like in Vincent Kompany‘s head.
After 25 minutes, that plan was already badly damaged. Hoedt, who just before had wasted a huge chance, took down the broken Matondo just before sixteen. After the intervention of the VAR, yellow turned red and Anderlecht suddenly stood with its tens.
Cercle sensed his chance and pushed Anderlecht back. When the home team also started playing unnecessarily complex football, Matondo almost took advantage, but Van Crombrugge saved. The goalkeeper did that again when the Welshman reappeared in front of him a few minutes later.
Anderlecht easily held their ground in the second half, until a class flash from Matondo made the difference more than 20 minutes before the end. He cut inside and with a lovely shot from outside the sixteen, the Welshman left Van Crombrugge without a chance.
The spring was broken with the Purple & White and in the final phase the home team had to take another hit. Matondo first aimed against the post, but Kanouté was able to score in the restart. Cercle thus continues its advance, for Anderlecht an unbeaten run of 9 matches comes to an end.
