2023-12-17 21:21:00
The topic of discussion after the match at Bosuil was not the fantastic spectacle put on by the players, but the video published by the Standard where Carl Hoekfens said to his players at half-time of the match in Anderlecht: “If you kick in the corner, it will be a goal for sure. This goalkeeper doesn’t know how to dive to the post.”
Brian Riemer said he was shocked. “When I see another club (he does not cite Standard) put a negative sentence about Kasper on its social media, I find that it is not happening. There it becomes something personal, about the man.”
“He can’t lie down between his two posts”: when Hoefkens charges Schmeichel at half-time in Anderlecht – Standard
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Hoefkens won’t keep me from sleeping. I would’ve done the same thing.
Confronted with the words of his coach, Schmeichel was stunned. “That’s the first thing I’ve heard about it. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” When the facts are pointed out to him, Schmeichel smiles. “As an opposing coach, you have to say things like that. I would do it too. It’s a good way to give confidence to your players.”
But this is not a reason for the club to publish this scene on its social networks. Schmeichel: “I know you have to do your job as journalists. I don’t follow those kinds of stories. What an opposing coach says about me is not going to keep me from sleeping. And no, that’s not going to motivate me either. Hoefkens has the right to this opinion.”
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Anderlecht shouldn’t be surprised that our fans are throwing things at them.
Further criticism of Schmeichel and Anderlecht came from Antwerp’s Jelle Bataille, who said: “They always acted like they had been punched in the face. And they took five minutes per clearance. They shouldn’t be surprised that our audience threw things at them. But hey, we would have done the same thing in their place. It was up to the referee to intervene.”
Schmeichel, with the same smile: “I still had to remove all the bottles from my rectangle? It’s normal that it takes time, right? It’s not my fault.”
For the first time since he was at Anderlecht, Schmeichel was able to show himself important. His coach Riemer always supported him. Riemer: “If I remember correctly, he hasn’t yet made a mistake that cost points, but it’s true that he could do better. He responded with a great performance tonight. He told me the best thing to answer was to win something (a trophy).”
And Schmeichel’s response to criticism in the media? “Have I received criticism? I didn’t know it. I have more interesting things to do than read the media. No one should say if I was good or not.”
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