Belfius Women League: La Gantoise reassures itself against a harmless Léopold

2024-03-03 22:41:29

Leopold : Grignard ; Meulemans, Gilbert, Masso, Vincent ; Zorita, Lardeur, Smeekens ; Verzura, Della Vittoria, Cosyns puis, Hautem, Drossos, Boey, Iskan, Figueras

Ghent : De Ryck ; Van den Borre, Van den Abeele, Cuffez, Brasseur ; Struijk, Gerniers, Nelen ; Ballenghien, Sinia, Van Remortel puis Bonami, Degezelle, Rogge, Fortes

Referees : MM. M. Raquet and MM. P. de Winter

Green cards: 15ème Meulemans, 31ème Van Den Abeele

The goals : 4ème Ballenghien (0-1), 45ème Gerniers (0-2), 48ème Van Remortel (0-3), 59ème Struijk (0-4), 64ème Van Remortel (0-5)

Penalty corner Léopold (0/0) and Gantoise (1/6)

Leopold and Gantoise experienced different winters. While Leopold has prepared hard for its rescue operation, La Gantoise will probably need a few league matches to get used to it. Sinia: “We are clearly using the first matches of the championship to prepare further.” Indeed, the Flandrian club was forced to train with a handful of players for a long time, was only able to play one friendly match during preparation and was without Delfina Gaspari and Noa Schreurs, who were injured. Enough to make this poster, at first glance unbalanced, interesting.

However, very quickly, Ghent demonstrated that its status as leader had not been usurped. Ballenghien’s quick goal showed the way forward. La Gantoise was very organized and aggressive in its press, literally stifling Leopold’s play and recovering a lot of balls. Leopold was courageous and nevertheless managed to stop Ghent’s counterattacks, not always in an academic manner. The false rhythm imposed by Leopold nevertheless thwarted the offensive ambitions of Ghent who, although playing in a certain chair, had to wait until the second period to increase the score. Leopold, although very courageous until then, gave up and cracked at the end of the match in the face of repeated attacks from Ghent.

Emilie Sinia confirmed that “although clearly still far from our peak form, with a lot of waste at the start of the match, we found the DNA of Gantoise at the end of the match, playing fast and fair. We will be ready for the ‘EHL’.

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