Jupiler Pro League – Round 15 – 11/25/23 – 20:45
Standard entered the international match suffering from a serious hangover. He lost his last match with a clear score of 6-0 to Antwerp. Genk coach Wouter Franken appears to be on alert. “They will fight us very hard,” the coach said. Follow the match at 8:45pm on this page or listen on Radio 1.
Stage after stage
I’m satisfied with the reaction I saw from the players after the loss to Antwerp.
Karl Hofkens (Standard coach)
Genk’s win in Liège dates back to 2019
It has been a long time since Genk has been able to win at the Slesin Stadium again. The last victory dates back to April 2019. The score was 1-3 and Leandro Trossard, among others, was on the scoreboard.
Genk also started with some new names. Arteaga, Cuesta, El Wahdi and Zeqiri will replace Kayembe, Munoz (sick), Sadiq and Arukudari.
Carl Hoefkens makes at least five substitutions (forced or not). Nobby, Ngui, Chanak, O’Neill and Price join VanHousden, Deuel, Hayden, Soah and Boukadi.
We have a very important month ahead of us. We will play 9 more games this year. We definitely have to keep going until the new year.
Wouter Franken, coach of Genk
Feelings of revenge in Standard?
Standard entered the international break with a bang. After turbulent weeks, they were beaten 6-0 by national champions Antwerp (see report below). “They will probably want to put something right for their audience,” Genk coach Wouter Franken also knows. “We have to be ready to face a team that will fight us very hard. In addition, they also have a high-quality team, especially after the injection of quality a few weeks ago.”
How Franken will handle it tactically remains a mystery. In recent weeks, he has often fielded his playmaker, Bilal Al-Khanous, on the left side instead of midfield. “We still see him as a No. 10, but sometimes you can hurt teams with that change in position. And you feel like sometimes he likes to come in from the wing. His role is more free there.
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