Club Brugge 1 – 0 USG (Jonas Bager, csc, 66′). Ranking of the play-offs: 1. Buges, 46; 2. Union, 43; 3.Anderlecht, 36; 4. Antwerp, 33 points.
Winner 1-0 of Union Saint-Gilloise on the fourth day of the Champions’ playoffs, Club Brugge (46 points) came very close to their third consecutive league title by putting the Union at three points. The two teams finished at ten with the exclusions of Brussels Koki Machida (59th) and Bruges Tajon Buchanan (90th +3). This Thursday at 8:30 p.m., Anderlecht (36 points, 3rd) finds Antwerp (33 points, 4th) which it largely dominated 0-4 on Sunday away.
The intentions of the Unionists were clear: to play very high and to try to recover the ball quickly. In short, a start at 100 an hour with a first chance following 19 seconds with a shot from Lazare Amani pushed back by Simon Mignolet (1st).
If they still had several possibilities, the people of Brussels suffocated a little and saw the people of Bruges, who committed fewer bad passes, come back into the game. However, the Blauw & Zwart did not really worry Moris (0 shots on target in 45 minutes). Their best opportunity came on a returning corner from Sobol diverted on the line by Lazare (19th).
From then on, the game was regularly interrupted and the quality of the game suffered. This did not prevent the Union from creating a new clear opportunity through Deniz Undav, whose shot was narrowly saved by Mignolet (44th).
After the break, the Saint-Gillois repeated the same scenario as at the start and inherited a new big opportunity following an acceleration from Mitoma but on the strike from Lazare, Mignolet once more made a good save (52nd). The people of Bruges were waiting for the thinning and it arrived following the exclusion of Machida (59th).
The visited then released their artillery. Moris had two good reflexes on shipments from Hendry (61st, 65th) and was replaced by Jonas Bager on a header from the Scottish defender (64th) The Luxembourg goalkeeper was less happy when he repelled a shot from Buchanan on Bager, who put the ball in the back of his goal (69th, 1-0).
The match was then played in one direction even if Undav, who dived into the small rectangle on a cross from Mitoma, did not target his header (81st).
At the end of the match, referee Erik Lambrechts canceled for an offside position, following intervention by the VAR, a goal from Casper Nielsen (89th). A cancellation that generated a lot of astonishment on the part of observers.
Union, who failed to score a single goal at Brugge, were unable to avoid their second away defeat of the season.
There are two games left ( once morest Anderlecht and Antwerp) for both teams to hope for the league title.
