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With a sensational save in the 103rd minute, Sebastian Osigwe sent FC Lugano to a penalty shoot-out and from there to the final against Servette’s Patrick Plucke. The 29-year-old goalkeeper, number 2 in the league behind Amir Saipi, will be the match winner.
Can Osigwe score in the final against YB after his great performance? Hardly! Because it is the Swiss-Nigerian fault that Lugano has to go into extra time against Servette. He orchestrated a game of time never seen before on Swiss football fields. In the 87th minute, he personally picked up a yellow card for delaying a goal kick. Two minutes later, Daprelà follows suit. Referee San shows yellow again. Same thing again in the 95th minute. This time Arigoni is warned, even San shakes his head. They can because the rules state that the yellow cards for the cup final will expire.
Coach Croci-Torti not happy with time game trick
Thousands of Servette fans in the stadium are annoyed by this unsportsmanlike behaviour. But the Luganesi accumulate karma. Servette prankster Crivelli equalizes immediately after Arigoni’s goal kick as the Luganesi don’t get out in time from behind. After the final whistle and winning the penalty shoot-out, Osigwe reveals to SRF that he saw this delaying tactic in a game in the South African league.
Not all Ticino people are as happy as Osigwe himself. Blick heard that coach Mattia Croci-Torti knew nothing about the campaign and was as annoyed as the Servette supporters.
Did Osigwe lure himself out of the gates for the cup final in Geneva at the beginning of April with this action? He hasn’t played since then.
Source : Blick
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