Rutten: "Showed resilience"

INTERVIEWS After the game against Eupen, Fred Rutten was satisfied with the three points. According to the coach, Anderlecht dominated the entire game. "But we also have to be realistic and admit that there are still a lot of points for improvement."


"In the first half we had the game reasonably under control, we did not give away a lot of chances, we also didn't create a lot of them, and in the final phase we missed that moment of creativity. The counter-goal fell, which was surprising. Then you saw a disappointing reaction from the team, we became very restless and that surprised me a bit ", Rutten analyzed the game.

"After the break, the match changed, partly because we started to play differently, we had the game even more under control, and we also had more opportunities to turn the score into a bigger win, but unfortunately we did not. We can be happy with the three points, but also have to be realistic and admit that there are still a lot of points for improvement. "

"Sometimes VAR in your favour and sometimes VAR against you"

Of course Rutten also got a question about the 2-1 and the non-intervention of the VAR. "I have not seen the images, but have heard it", according to the Anderlecht coach. "Whether we were lucky that he did not intervene? Sometimes you have him with you, the other time against. It is a system and people have to interpret that."

After the break we saw a better Anderlecht than before. Asked for a statement, Rutten came up with a somewhat strange explanation. "I was amazed about the pitch, that it was so dry, making it impossible to speed up, because of the heavy rain it became faster, but it was also because we had to react. We did a great job, to turn a deficit into a lead. "

"Slowly, we are taking steps forward in the development of our game, and Standard is going to be a completely different game, and I have to think again about that game," Rutten concluded.

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