A POINT WORTH THE TITLE ROUND
With one day to go, Lugano is among the teams mathematically certain to contest the penalty shootout for the title. Drawing with St. Gallen on Sunday, the HCLers climbed to 49 in the standings and can no longer be joined by teams currently below the line. FEW SUCCESSES IN THE FIRST HALF The first half [...]
"TO PLAY A GREAT GAME IN FRONT OF OUR FANS."
Lugano will play its last home game of the regular season on Sunday, April 13, at 2:15 pm. Opponent will be St. Gallen. BACK DOS SANTOS Five players will not be available for the match: Bottani, Mahou, Aliseda, Belhadj and Valenzuela. Daniel Dos Santos, who had suffered a sprained ankle in the match against Winterthur in mid-March, returns for [...]
HIGH-TENSION CHAMPIONSHIP FINALE
Overcoming Lugano 2-0, Basel is the only one of the leading teams to have profited from day number 31 of the Super League championship. In addition to the bianconeri, not even Servette and Lucerne did not win any points while YB and Zurich drew despite suffering until the end. SIX BATTLING FOR FOUR PLACES IN [...]
"OUT OF THE CONFERENCE FOR A LESS SERIOUS FOUL."
If the nearly 30,000 Basel fans dragged their team especially in the second half, the numerous fans following Lugano were vocal and even at the end applauded their favorites who played a very generous match. RED FOR ALL OBSERVERS To cause discussion after the game is [...]
BASILEA ON THE COUNTERATTACK ON LUGANO
Despite suffering for a long time against a courageous but usually somewhat sterile Lugano in front, the leading team Basel managed to win and lengthen its pace in the standings given the results of its direct competitors. The Bianconeri's performance at St. Jakob was positive for long stretches but also unlucky, see the missed intervention [...]
CROSSES-TORTS: 'READY FOR MATCH BALL IN BASILEA'
Lugano faces another examination. On Sunday at 4:30 p.m. it will face top-ranked Basel in the glowing atmosphere of St. Jakob Park. The team practiced on Friday and will carry out a finishing session on Saturday. In the afternoon it is scheduled to depart for beyond St. Gotthard. BOTTANI BACK ON DISPOSITION For the past two days, Mattia has also been training with the group [...]
IN YVERDON MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
"We need to take the lead and come back with the three points," coach Mattia Croci-Torti had declared on the eve of the match. And the team executed the task. With one goal per half, Lugano beat Yverdon and relaunched itself after the home defeat against Servette. An important and not a foregone conclusion: Yverdon in 2025 will not [...]
"IF YOU DON'T UNLOCK IT YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST NOT CONCEDE GOALS."
The wind was one of the protagonists of the match between Lugano and Servette. Favorable to the bianconeri in the first half, which ended, however, with the guest advantage, it hindered in the second half the assault of Koutsias and his teammates to the goal excellently defended by Joel Mall. DOUBLE OF THEIR SHOTS In the post-match press conference, coach Mattia Croci-Torti [...]
SERVETTE MOVES ON TO CORNAREDO
On the day against hate and discrimination called by the SFL, Servette confirmed a certain recent favorable tradition in direct clashes with Lugano. On a very windy evening Häberli's players won with one goal per half. In the first 45′ to tell the truth, the Ticinese should have been ahead [...]
"WE WILL PLAY DIFFERENTLY THAN USUAL."
The finishing practice that Lugano carried out Friday morning in Cadro unfortunately resulted in a new injury. Bislimi had to leave the field prematurely due to a blow to the knee and will not be available for Saturday night's match (Cornaredo 8:30 p.m.) against top-ranked Servette. FIVE ABSENTS The midfielder of Kosovar origin [...]
