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 [...]
Milton Valenzuela, recovery goal for final round
The MRI to which Milton Valenzuela, who was injured during last Sunday's FC Basel-FC Lugano match at St. Jakob Park, underwent, showed a myotendinous injury of the semimembranosus muscle of the left thigh. The goal of the HCL medical area is the Argentine side's recovery for the final round of the championship. For their part, Hicham [...]
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 [...]
LUGANO STRONGER THAN BISE AND WITH UNUSUAL NUMBERS
The weather alert issued for Tuesday over the western Vaud Jura region, of which Yverdon is a part, was no April Fools' joke. The gusts of "bise" reached 70 kilometers per hour at times and undoubtedly affected the match between the local team and Lugano as well. POSSESSION AND PASSAGES AT LEAST The bianconeri had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BIANCONERI VICTORY WITH KOUTSIAS' DOUBLE
Lugano returned to victory and did so despite 120 minutes in the legs after the unfortunate Conference League return match. The bianconeri left Winterthur no chance and with a double by Koutsias early in the second half, they pocketed three invaluable points and are now lone third in the standings [...]
LUGANO ELIMINATED ON PENALTIES FROM CONFERENCE
As was the case in the Swiss Cup final against Servette, penalty kicks did not bode well for Lugano, which missed three out of four. In the end, therefore, the 5-4 victory in the 120 minutes despite having a man down did not help and the Slovenians wrote history, as would have been [...]
