Kortrijk - Antwerp Prediction, Picks and Tips
The second semifinal colors red and white. Can Kortrijk confirm its good form and reward itself with a trip to the Heysel? Antwerp must come out of its hedgehog position to retrieve the 1-1 from the first leg.
In the competition there is not much more to win for KV Kortrijk. The Guys are very far from Play-Off I, but there is also absolutely no degradation hazard. "I think everyone wants to show themselves and want to play. There is a lot of quality and everyone gives in completely. If you can bring this quality, you may not be in the right place, but we have to accept it and admit it to the vital match against Antwerp, "said trainer Yves Vanderhaeghe. On Friday evening, KV Kortrijk and Standard opened the 24th match day. The Guys won 3-1 after a strong first half. After the break, KV Kortrijk remained better and this time also resulted in goals. After five minutes in the second half, the home team also took the lead. Barely two minutes later, the score was already doubled. The Rouches came back two minutes later in the game. In the end of the match, the pace dropped and KV Kortrijk consolidated the lead. On Friday-evening, Terem Moffi again scored a goal in the Jupiler Pro League against Standard. Previously, he also scored the important equalizer against Club Brugge. After the match, Moffi's focus was clearly somewhere else: "It was a very good match for us, but we have to keep working hard. The match in the Cup against Antwerp is not that far anymore. Kortrijk was the better team and had a lot of opportunities to score: "In the first half, we missed out on some opportunities and after the break, they went in. We scored three goals in difficult matches and we can be very satisfied with that. "
Antwerp's unbeaten series of fourteen matches, which started with a victory against Club Brugge, has been broken down by ... Club Brugge. At the Great Old they put their hand in their own bosom, but also in the direction of line judge Vandecauter, who had a possible ghost goal approved. Apart from that, they were so honest to admit that they had called the defeat, the first against a top club this season. That was undoubtedly the reason why Laszlo Bölöni barely mentioned that phase. He admitted that his team had brought too little on the offensive, and so did his players. Club Brugge and Antwerp made it an exciting and intense top match on Sunday afternoon on Jan Breydel. Eye-catching football was not there, but otherwise all the ingredients were present in the battle between the leader and the number 3. Dominant was Club Brugge, but The Great Old did not have so many problems to keep them off in an otherwise very intense duel with a lot of spicy phases in the field and also a charged atmosphere in the stands. Antwerp seemed to stand until then (ghost) goal by Hans Vanaken. In the 1-0 defeat of Antwerp at Club Brugge, Lior Refaelov was not mentioned. More surprising is that Bölöni did not even send him in the direction of warming up to fall in. The Antwerp coach had chosen a very defensive strategy to play on the leader's field. It was thought that Refaelov would come in to force something, but the attacking midfielder remained on the bench throughout the game. Still, Lior Refaelov was a basic player in the past nine games. "I haven't exchanged a word with my coach about this. Maybe he was saving me for the Belgian cup for Thursday. "In any case, the attacking midfielder is not sick or injured.
Our recommendation tip for Kortrijk - Antwerp : Antwerp to win @ 2.10