Sint-Truiden above Sclessin on Wednesday evening. The Canaries were clearly ahead against Standard. Except that goal didn’t arrive. Koita in particular couldn’t aim properly. A few minutes from the end the Japanese Joel Fujita succeeded. After a sublime pass from Steuckers, Fujita, surprisingly favored over Ito, scored the 0-1. His title as match winner only suffered a major blow in injury time.
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Third base spot
“I knew since Tuesday that I would be a starter,” said the Japanese midfielder. “The coach wanted to play a little more conservatively with me and Delorge. That’s why I was given preference over Ito. He usually doesn’t score often. It was actually a bit of a lucky goal,” he said, in a very modest tone.
It remains strange that it was only Fujita’s third opportunity as a starter. “I have a lot of competition with Ito and Delorge. But after New Year there will probably be some opportunities,” Fujita referred to the fact that Ito could travel to the Asian Cup.
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VAR intervention
To be honest, the STVV youngsters were a little too good when things went wrong in injury time. Smets shoots in the air, O’Neill tackles Janssens and makes an obvious mistake on the yellow-blue substitute, who takes the ball into his arms. Referee Lambrechts awarded a corner first, VAR Wim Smet intervened. Then, when the referee returned from the screen, he pointed to the spot.
“We mainly asked Wolke what happened,” Mathias Delorge said. «I didn’t see him well either. This is obviously frustrating. We dominated the whole match. The Standard perhaps had half a chance. Agreed, we should have scored earlier. When Lambrechts was called onto the screen, I immediately knew what time it was. So acidic.
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“I should have cleared the ball differently,” sighed Matte Smets. “More to the side rather than pushing up. This made Wolke’s defense more difficult. Rush hour put me under pressure, so I decided to pop in. Of course it’s always easy to talk afterwards.”
Janssens himself was extremely angry at the referee’s decision. “What are they really doing behind that screen?” grumbled the unfortunate Janssens. “Surely VAR saw that I was pushed? This is simply incomprehensible.”
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“We should have had six more points”
Olivier Dumont quickly ran onto the pitch to give Suzuki an instruction for Kanga’s penalty. He didn’t help. “A tactical guideline. I can’t tell you what he whispered to me,” Suzuki winked. “No, he had nothing to do with the angle I had to choose. I decided it myself. I saw in the hands phase that there was an arm of one of our players.”
“We should have been colder a few seconds earlier,” sighed the Truiense goalkeeper. “At first I wanted to clear the ball, but Matte didn’t hear me shouting because of the cheering in the stadium. Oh well, we’re in a good eighth place, let’s remember that. That the gap between the pursuers should have been wider? This is possible, but we will still win many games in the new year.”
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“The eighth is nice, but we should have had at least six more points,” struck Delorge. Furthermore, the January schedule seems very difficult. Koita will work out with Mauritania in January and Suzuki and possibly Ito will know on January 1 whether they will permanently join the Japanese team for the Asian Cup. Possibly there will also be outgoing bank transfers? “But maybe there will also be new guys,” Smets says. “Myself? Obviously I’ll still be there.”
STANDARD: Bodart, Laifis, Vanheusden, Noubi, Djenepo, Hayden, O’Neill, Fossey, Kawabe, Emond, Kanga.STVV: Suzuki, Hashioka, Van Helden, Smets, Godeau, Steuckers, Fujita, Delorge, Bocat, Koita, Kaya .SUBSTITUTIONS: 46′ Fossey by Price, 46′ Djenepo by Canak, 54′ Emond by Sowah, 69′ Hayden by Dewaele, 79′ Laifis by Hautekiet, 86′ Koita by Yamamoto, 86′ Kaya by Barnes, 90′ Steuckers by Janssens , 97′ Fujita by Dumont.GOAL: 86′ Fujita 0-1, 98′ Kanga 1-1 (penalty). Yellow cards: Van Helden (shooting error), Koita (stall time), Janssens (protest) REFEREE: Erik Lambrechts SPECTATOR: 18,000.
2023-12-27 21:15:57
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