Snowfall is causing shifts in the Croky Cup today. The quarter-finals between OHL and Antwerp on the one hand and Union and Anderlecht on the other are canceled and will be played next week. KV Oostende-RWDM will continue tonight. “At some point you have to make a decision.”
I WAIT. Lorin Parys, president of the Lega Pro: “
At the beginning of this week, the winter weather forecast in Belgium was already predicting the worst for the cup quarter-finals. Yesterday the AA Gent-Club Brugge could have continued normally, but tonight there will be pruning. On Wednesday afternoon there was already a layer of snow on the Union pitch as they faced Anderlecht. That game is canceled, just like the one between the OHL and Antwerp. The quarter-final between KV Oostende and RWDM can continue as normal.
“We have been monitoring the situation for several days with calendar manager Nils Van Brantegem and RMI,” explains Lorin Parys, CEO of the Pro League. “We saw that the weather forecasts were changing and contradicting each other a bit. This morning at 11am we had a meeting where it was decided that there was a problem with the Union and OHL games. For the Ostend match there were no problems.”
“At some point you have to make a decision,” Parys continues. “Some criteria are taken into account, such as the playability of the pitch and the safety of the fans. The RMI said it could snow until 3am in Leuven and Brussels.”
I WAIT. The snow-covered meadow of the Union
OHL and Antwerp will now face each other next Wednesday (24 January) at 8.30pm, the following day (25 January) there will also be Union-Anderlecht at 8.30pm. Just three days later, the two Brussels clubs meet again, this time in the competition, in Anderlecht. The semi-finals normally scheduled for that week will move to the week of February 7th. That Wednesday, Club Brugge’s first semi-finalist will face the winner of the match between Union and Anderlecht. The other semi-final will be played on Tuesday or Thursday of the same week, but no decision has yet been made.
The calendar will be a little busier again. “There aren’t many fallback options. Now we have a solution. But let’s hope it’s the last time this season, otherwise it will be very tight.”
I WAIT. There is also a carpet of snow in Leuven
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2024-01-17 17:32:43
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