Anderlecht are slowly going into a crisis

Anderlecht couldn't win against Cercle Brugge and now the club is slowly gliding into a crisis. "If we lose on Friday against GBA, we surely are in crisis. There's only one place that counts for Anderlecht: the first."


"Before the start of the season, we were the biggest candidate to take a new title. We're halfway now and we can only see how we failed. It's normal that the trainer, the players and even the board are critisized in times like this. The draw of last Saturday was painful. I hope that the players want to prove themselves on Friday against GBA. No apology is good enough to explain a new a new loss of points", Van Holsbeeck said.

Meanwhile, the pressure on Franky Vercauteren is increasing. Especially his (often failing) controversial tactical plans are under fire. Fans are unhappy and even some players are complaining.

Vercauteren's rotation system caused a lack of automatism in the team. The players can't find each other on the field due to always changing tactics and formations. Hence the bad results.

But the coach is sick and tired of all the comments and reacts: "The criticism on me is just not right and I'm having a hard time with it. I don't have to justify myself."

"If I put Kompany on the midfield, people wonder why I took him away from the defense and the other way around. If I line-up Frutos, no one understands why Pujol ends up on the bench and the other way around. Do I have to line-up 14 players? It's easy to comment on me after a game. Some journalists are creating problems where there are none", said the coach.