Vincent Janssen match winner for Royal Antwerp on debut in Champions League | Foreign football

Royal Antwerp FC from 1880 made its debut in the Champions League tonight. Although it still concerns the play-offs for a place in the group stage, the Champions League anthem will have given many supporters on the packed Bosuil goosebumps. Antwerp once played two matches in the old European Cup I. That was in 1957, when Real Madrid won 8-1 over the oldest club in Belgium over two matches. Then played RAFC still regularly in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Cup, Europa League and Conference League, but tonight for the first time in the context of the Champions League.

At the request of the talented midfielder Arthur Vermeeren (18), Vincent Janssen scored after fifteen minutes with a nicely viewed shot with the left in the far corner. Janssen now has five goals in five matches in the new season, last season he scored 21 goals in 46 matches in all competitions.

Ten minutes after the break, Antwerp came close to ten men after a red card for right back Jelle Bataille. Jurgen Ekkelenkamp was replaced immediately after that red card. Gyrano Kerk remained on the bench at Royal Antwerp, which is today the Argentinian defender Gaston Avila sold to Ajax for 12.5 million euros. After the game, the supporters and players said goodbye to Avila, who made a lap of honor with his daughter.

Nordin Amrabat played the entire match at AEK Athens, which only qualified for the play-offs on Saturday evening by dealing with Dinamo Zagreb. The match in the Greek capital was played ten days later than scheduled, after a Greek fan was killed in violent riots on August 8. Supporters of Dinamo Zagreb are no longer welcome at European away games this season.

FC Copenhagen won 0-1 at Raków Czestochowa, which became champion in Poland for the first time last season after two second places in a row. Romanian defender Bogdan Racovitan scored an own goal after just nine minutes. Kevin Diks and Jordan Larsson (son of Henrik Larsson) participated the entire match with the champion of Denmark, who took three points last season in a group with Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla.

Arrived at Ibrox in Glasgow Rangers and PSV to a 2-2 draw. Luuk de Jong equalized in the final phase. The return in Eindhoven is next Wednesday. Next weekend, PSV, just like Ajax and AZ, will not play in the Eredivisie.

The next three first matches in the play-offs of the Champions League are on Wednesday evening. Next Tuesday and Wednesday are the decisive returns. Hakim Ziyech can make his debut on Wednesday evening for Galatasaray, which will visit the Norwegian champion Molde FK. Tonny Vilhena and Bart Schenkeveld play with the Greek number two Panathinaikos against Sporting Braga, the number three in Portugal.

Program Wednesday evening
9 p.m.: Molde FK – Galatasaray
9 p.m.: Sporting Braga – Panathinaikos
9 p.m.: Maccabi Haifa – BSC Young Boys