"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
CROSSES-TORTS: TIRED BUT WE WANT THE THREE POINTS
Lugano held its final training session in Cadro on Saturday morning ahead of Sunday's match (Cornaredo 4:30 p.m.) against Winterthur. ANOTHER FIVE ABSENTS Compared to Thursday, the coach will recover Papadopulos who was disqualified while Mattia Bottani, also stopped by UEFA, will not be able to return as he is suffering from an inguinal hernia. In the league he must serve [...]
