“We took a little revenge”

Third goal, third wonder for Maxime D’Arpino. The Ostend full-back sent a missile deep into Anthony Moris’s net.

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KV Ostende got into their game very well, and Maxime D’Arpino punctuated this start to the match with a masterful strike on a second ball. “She’s coming back well, I had followed the action and I tried my luck, it’s nice,” smiled the Frenchman after the meeting. “We suffered a lot in the second half against a good team from the Union, but we took a deserved point in view of our first half”.

D’Arpino is delighted to have been able to wash away the affront of the first leg, when the Union came to crush the KVO (1-7) at home. “We take a little revenge on the first leg. Now, in the second half, we didn’t see the light of day, that’s clear. We took burst after burst and it ended up coming in,” he regrets. “But we hold this point so important (the KVO is mathematically saved, nes)”.

Still, Ostend could have lost if USG had been more efficient… or if Teddy Teuma’s shot had been counted as crossing the line. “If Teuma’s shot crosses the line? I don’t know, it crosses it a little, yes, but completely, I don’t know. And on their goal, Undav looks offside to me, but the referee tells me that the VAR does not work. It is not the first time, against Standard too, there were problems, “recalls Maxime D’Arpino.