The reception of La Gantoise, a poster on paper. Less in fact, as the Rouches only offer a timid resistance to the opposition in their lair. Two meager victories, obtained in special circumstances, enough to make it the worst team at home in the Jupiler Pro League. Successes acquired against Ostend via a disputed achievement and against Eupen, on an own goal. To get out of its slump, Standard must therefore garner units, and quickly.
Without an audience this afternoon to encourage him in the stands, but present around the stadium, to mark his dissatisfaction, and put pressure on a management which has just separated from Alexandre Grosjean. Yet another disavowal during a season without sporting flavor but far too spicy behind the scenes.
Several absent
“What happens around the club has no influence on our performance. The sentence does not come from a single mouth but from several, in various languages. Because the locker room tries to focus on what it can influence, namely the course of its championship, with the means at hand, because even the most confident are in full doubt.
Regarding the absences planned against the Buffalos, Selim Amallah, Kostas Laifis and Renaud Emond are already forfeited. Gilles Dewaele is uncertain. This is a lot, especially in the current context. The one that evokes survival, maintenance in D1A and the firm intention of finally restoring a coat of arms that has been soiled from week to week. To achieve this, it will be necessary to overcome, or even simply to demonstrate rebellion. No longer let yourself be walked on at home. Do not give up at the slightest blow to its fortifications. Do not forget that Sclessin must be hell for others and not for oneself. A simple goal to state, but more difficult to achieve. Because morale is at rock bottom, at all levels.
The questions around the recovery, the starving recitals that are becoming commonplace and the drastic measures taken during the week to shake up the players. So many parameters that do not allow you to work in good conditions. Quite the opposite of the opponent of the day in fact. He who is still engaged on three fronts, and who has just given Seraing a lesson last Wednesday (4-0). Tarik Tissoudali and his teammates are coming off three consecutive victories, so they are in a destructive flow. The Rouches face a mountain, as physical as it is technical. “Not worrying about the opponent or his qualities, but concentrating on our game, and our qualities. The ones that can hurt anyone. Other words repeatedly dropped, but rarely concretized. So this time, to prevent Sclessin from being a boiling cauldron for its occupants, it will be necessary to offer a positive face and, if possible, finally victorious…
