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Five minutes before the end, everything suddenly seems like overtime. YB leads 2-1, but Lugano’s Espinoza has 100 percent to equalize. The defender from Ecuador has to make it 2-2. But the prankster fails through the young Bernese goalkeeper Marvin Keller. YB coach Raphael Wicky says afterwards that he hoped: “Oh no, please don’t! Hopefully the ball will fly to a yellow. That’s all you think about.”
In return, Nsame stands alone for Saipi. The hold. But Elijah sinks the rebound with good luck. The Wankdorf trembles. Is everything now decided with the 3:1? No, not that day. In return, Steffen hammers the ball under the bar of the surprised Keller, who doesn’t see it coming. And so the final stage becomes hot again. Defensive battle, hitting balls to the end. But it’s enough for YB. Eighth cup win. Third double after 1958 and 2020. Space storm. Memories of the first championship title in 2018 after 32 years of suffering. Yet everything goes civilized back and forth.
And one has a particularly wide grin on his face: the man who scored goals number one and two: Jean-Pierre Nsame. The Franco-Cameroonian’s record is as bloody madness as this game. He scores his number 16 and 17 goals against Lugano. A number that he has not achieved against any other opponent. It is his number 125 and 126 goals for YB.
Title guarantor Nsame
But he doesn’t make a big deal of it: “I didn’t do Lugano alone. There were assists. Just like the one here,” says Cédric Zesiger, “who gave me his first assist in five years…” He told himself that a great team would never lose to the same opponent twice in a row because YB was the last to beat the Ticino yes was inferior. “We succeeded. So we were able to set the clock to zero.” He himself really wanted the photo with the two trophies. Like 2020. “That’s why I took another look at the 2020 one. And told me: same please. But with fans!”
Nsame – a goalscoring mascot. He was injured almost the entire preliminary round last season and was loaned to Venezia in the second half of the season. There he was relegated to Serie B. And YB did not win a title. With Nsame the record is: Five championship titles. Two cup wins. Incomprehensible!
Christian Fassnacht has the same record to show. However, he was never gone for long and injured. The Zurich native leads the team as captain because Fabian Lustenberger is a prankster. Then the two lift the trophy together. “It’s a nice recognition that Lusti came to me and offered me that.” It’s been really hard, this road to the title, “because we’ve been champions for so long. It’s all the more amazing now, unlike in 2020, to be able to share all this with fans and families. And it’s the most fun to to win in such a dramatic match. You have to tremble, it’s shit. And then: Rescue!”
Lauper’s renewed knee injury
Only one was close to tears: Sandro Lauper. After an unfortunate duel in which Steffen’s foot slipped on the ball, he twisted his knee. Not again, the YB fans think. And probably not just them. The man with the never-ending story of woe, who missed almost as many games as he did after two cruciate ligament tears and a hole in his knee. After five minutes he has to go outside. “At least it’s not the cruciate ligament. But it is the meniscus that I also had to operate during the second cruciate ligament operation.” But that is not entirely clear. “It can take a few weeks, as with Racioppi, or a few months, as with Camara. I can only hope now.”
But the last word belongs to someone who never gives interviews, not this time either: YB owner Hans-Ueli Rihs. After the game he is in the locker room. And said what? “That it’s amazing what the YB family is achieving.” Nothing more to add for this season. At least nationwide.
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
