After the winter break, this weekend is the return of the Pro League, the Belgian football championship. Seraing welcomes, this Saturday evening, the Union Saint-Gilloise on behalf of the 22nd day.
Everything started off perfectly for the championship leader. From the 5th minute, Deniz Undav recovers the ball following a bad construction of the visited. The German striker rushes towards the cage and hits the mark (0-1), planting her 17th rose of the season. Under a thick fog, the scenario seems to take another turn for the Unionists since the defender Jonas Bager sees red in the 13th minute. The free kick, at the edge of the large rectangle, however, does nothing for Seraing.
The Union starts again with renewed vigor, obtaining a new opportunity through the intermediary of Dante Vanzeir. The Belgian striker then converts his second possibility, in the 26th, taking advantage of another bad raise from the 17th of our elite (0-2). The men of Felice Mazzu, coach of the year 2021, are only ten, but they lead by two goals at the break.
Upon returning from the locker room, the fog grew in intensity. The referee extends the break for thirty minutes. The fog not dissipating after the additional half hour, he decides to stop the game. The second period will be played at a later date (this Tuesday, January 18 at 8 p.m.).
“The moment we entered the field to start the second half, we could directly see that the visibility was very low“, explained referee Wesli De Cremer. “I put myself in the middle of the field and there I could not see my assistants and my assistants confirmed to me that for them, it was impossible to judge the offside because they did not see the other side of the field. So there, we made the decision to delay the second half by thirty minutes, we have the right, to see if the situation improved. After thirty minutes, we had to see that the situation was the same“, explained Mr. De Cremer, who recalled that this is the procedure in this kind of situation.
