Marc Wilmots and Red Devils suffered against the Desert Foxes. Though they opened the scoring by Sofiane Feghouli (24th), Algerians have tilted to Belgium (2-1) during the first match in Group H. off the bench, Marouane Fellaini (69) and Dries Mertens (79) enabled the Red Devils to win. A successful coaching for Marc Wilmots.

“We knew it would be a difficult game because there was no much space. We have struggled to create opportunities, except on long distance shots, analyzed Marc Wilmots after the final whistle in the micro of RTBF. When you make a small mistake, it pays cash at the World Cup. I put a paper in the locker room where it was written: ‘bench will make the difference. And we saw it in the second half, the bench really made the difference! “.

Marc Wilmots can be satisfied today after his players managed to snatch victory from Algeria (2-1) for the first meeting of the Red Devils in this World Cup 2014.

Belgium takes the lead of the group, before Russia and South Korea.