Gift Orban today fired blanks as Gent failed on the final day of the regular season to reach the Belgian Championship playoffs and instead allowed Club Brugge to do so.
Gent surprisingly lost 2-1 at home to relegated KV Oostende, while defending champions Club Brugge walloped KAS Eupen 7-0.
Gent thus finished fifth in the standings with 56 points, while Club Brugge recorded 59 points.
New sensation Gift Orban featured for 76 minutes before he was replaced.
He and Gent will now play in the second playoffs that will produce a team to play in next season’s UEFA Europa Conference League.
On Thursday, Gent also crashed out to West Ham in the quarterfinal of the UEFA Europa Conference League.
Tolu Arokodare, Yira Sor (Genk), Victor Boniface (Union St.Gillloise), Alhassan Yusuf (Antwerp) and Raphael Onyedika (Club Brugge) will now slug it out in the Championship playoffs that will also decide the teams for the Champions League and the Europa League.
