Verhaeghe was very dissatisfied with the red card for Christos Tzolis and about the penalty for Standard and clearly showed that in the catacombs of the Jan Breydel Stadium towards referee Visser. “Are you going to give me a card too?” He asked. “You were terribly bad today. You don’t have to do so silly.”
The day after the game Verhaeghe apologized to Visser and his assistants. “It’s not okay what I did,” Verhaeghe said in front of Sporza’s camera. “I really want to apologize for it. Although I notice that if I do it, it causes a lot of dust. I regret the formal of my performance. That was wrong and I reject.”