2023-09-04 10:00:00
Jan Vertonghen played a game of, say, rogue this Sunday at the Cegeka Arena. Unsportsmanlike, for sure, and that made Racing Genk unpin.
Jan Vertonghen arrived in Belgium with the image of a gentleman, an elegant central defender with a silky left paw, and always irreproachable in the interview. All of this is true. But “Sterke Jan” also has another face, which RSC Anderlecht followers have noted for several months now.
Because Jan Vertonghen is also capable of being a scoundrel, a “filth” as we sometimes say in Brussels. So far, it had remained discreet. In Genk, he put the opposing team on edge. Going for the ball in the arms of young Christopher Bonsu Baah, he knew what he was doing.
Yellow card ? It doesn’t matter: the Anderlecht captain knows how to play on borrowed time. Not Bonsu Baah, who handled this first warning very badly (undeserved, but that’s not the point). Boos at every touch of the ball? They left him totally insensitive, only contributing to a match with an execrable atmosphere from the first quarter of an hour.
Dimitri De Condé goes crazy
After the meeting, the sporting director of Racing Genk and Jan Vertonghen had an altercation. Dimitri De Conde did not appreciate the attitude of the Red Devil. “With his experience and his age, I don’t understand why he needs to do this,” lamented the Limburg leader. “It’s cheating, I hate it”.
Jan Vertonghen then pushed Dimitri De Condé, a gesture to be condemned, and the player apologized. But where the Genkois sports director is wrong is when he says that with his experience, Vertonghen “must not do that”; it is precisely thanks to his experience that Jan Vertonghen was able to get his opponent, and even a whole team, a stadium and a management, out of a difficult match.
The caps record holder in the selection released a villainous match, without forgetting to … do his job defensively and in construction. An excellent match, from the Anderlecht point of view; “the shame of Belgian football”, from the point of view of vice-president Mathieu Cilissen, who threw these words in the face of Vertonghen at half-time. If the situations were reversed, would he say the same thing…?
1693824261
#shame #Belgian #football #Jan #Vertonghen #drove #Genk #berserk
