CROSSES-TORTS: "PROOF OF CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY"
The crowd at the end of the game showed appreciation for the team's behavior and the fourth place that means Europe for the fourth consecutive season. It was also the night of farewells with the official goodbyes and tributes to Aliseda, Valenzuela, Macek, Przybylko, Babic and Arigoni before the kickoff whistle and the applause and [...]
A POINT WORTH EUROPE
Lugano finished the Super League championship in fourth place and won the right to participate in the Conference or Europa League preliminaries in July. The decisive point came at the end of a good performance against YB. Match in which Croci-Torti's team, in addition to scoring a goal, made [...]
LAST 90 MINUTES WITH A VIEW OF EUROPE
Both proponents and critics of the new league formula admit one thing: that there is great suspense until the 90th minute of the last game. Only on Saturday night, in fact, the names of the teams that will accompany Basel to the various European competitions (better in the preliminaries) next season will be known. EVERYTHING OPEN SAVE THE TITLE Anything can [...]
VALUABLE POINT WON IN LAUSANNE
Perhaps the most important point of the season the one Lugano won Sunday afternoon in Lausanne, in the second away game in three days in the land of Romandy. After recovering the Vaudois' early lead, Croci-Torti's boys calmly controlled and brought home the draw. In the standings, with one day left [...]
EUROPEAN PLACEMENT STILL POSSIBLE
After winning their opening game in Lucerne, Lugano was defeated in their next two Championship Group challenges at home against Basel and Thursday night in Geneva. Grabbing second place is now impossible for Croci-Torti's boys, but third place also looks difficult to achieve. WORST RECORD DIFFERENCE The [...]
LUGANO ALSO WITHOUT LUCK IN GENEVA
Another lucky game for Lugano, which returned from Geneva without points, with four goals to its credit (an own goal and a penalty) and especially with four balls that were well kicked into the net but did not go in due to miraculous interventions by the opponent's goalkeeper or saves on the line. ONE AUTOGOL PER PART The balance reigned throughout [...]
SHAQIRI SHOW TO BEAT LUGANO
On the eve of the match, HCL coach Mattia Croci-Torti had called Shaqiri unfailing and a player who always makes a difference. On the field, the prediction punctually came true. After a balanced first half, indeed with Lugano coming out on top, King Xherdan took the throne and practically single-handedly dragged his team to the [...]
FC LUCERNE - FC LUGANO COUNTDOWN
For the second year, the Swiss champion title and the other places in the European Cups will be awarded at the end of a final round of five matches each. While five more days will decide the team relegated to the Challenge League and the one that will play a play-off against the second in the cadet league. MAY [...]
LAUSANNE'S HUNGER GETS THE BETTER OF THEM
The greater motivation of Lausanne, which absolutely had to win the three points in order to hope to enter the title round, got the better of Lugano, which had already qualified. The Vaudois, who went ahead with two goals in the first half, also galvanized by the news coming out of Bern that Zurich had succumbed, defended [...]
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 [...]
