AA Gent could not prevent Dinamo Kiev from scoring twice in the Ghelamco Arena on Wednesday evening and is therefore with more than one foot in the group stage of the Champions League.
“This is of course what we wanted to avoid. Everything we had said before the match came true: Dinamo is a team that waited for the mistakes we made”, Wim De Decker said after the match.
“The first goal against, after just 10 minutes, was avoided. We defended too lax. We were nervous, I saw some stage fright.”
“But then, after about 20 minutes, we found the free spaces and just before half-time we came alongside. You hope to continue that line in the second half, but we shot ourselves in the foot.”
“The second yellow card from Bezoes made it very difficult for us. You try to play 1-1 with 10 men, but still swallow the 1-2, although you actually don’t give away much. Although I admit that we ourselves don’t have much. created. “
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With a 1-2 loss and a trip to Kiev, AA Gent’s chances of pushing through have shrunk.
De Decker: “It will be very difficult, precisely because we have made it so difficult for ourselves. Very difficult. A few guys reached the level for a Champions League match, but certainly not all.”
“But it would be silly to say that we are not going to try anything in the second leg. We will certainly make the best of it, even if I am disappointed now, just like everyone else here.”
After the resignation of Jess Thorup, Ghent started with a win in the competition. But the train is not on track yet.
“I had the feeling that we were doing well. Such a process can be accelerated by good results, but today we are losing. We were hit. And I repeat, by shooting ourselves in the foot,” De Decker concluded.
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