As a result of his successful substitution against The New Saints, Romelu Lukaku, the young RSCA striker, made the following statement: "I am incredibly happy with my comeback. I feel like a player again. I have the understanding with my teammates to thank for those two goals and I also want to thank the medical staff for the effective treatment of my injury. I want to build up gradually in order to be top again within a few weeks. I have only trained with the rest of the group twice during the past few weeks. I have to train specifically now."

"Romelu’s knee injury has healed, but he is definitely not ready yet to be completely at the disposal of the technical staff", Kristof Sas, head of the medical staff, said. "In order to recover, Romelu has trained very specifically. We emphasized power training, but this resulted in the fact that he now lacks the basics on other fronts (like fitness, being explosive, ...) to stay injury-free. It would, at this moment, be foolish to skip stages in his recovery (i.e. power, basic fitness, resistance and speed training), considering the player’s fragile balance and his history", Sas said.