Nati inside: Yakin and Sow shower – Orsato flute

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The national record in Lucerne is excellent: 20 matches have been played in Lucerne since 1971. The national team has won 15 times, drawn three times and lost twice. The last game was the great 4:0 against Bulgaria, which bought us the ticket for the World Cup in Qatar. In 2018, the Nati played their best game of recent years in a 5-2 win against Belgium, which meant participation in the Nations League Final Four tournament. But beware: one of the two defeats happened against … Romania! It was a 0:1 in the first international match in the new arena on May 20, 2012. 14,400 fans are sold out on Monday.

Before the final training session, Murat Yakin conducts two one-on-one interviews. The first with Djibril Sow, where the two are showered by the sprinkler system. The second with Fabian Schär. He doesn’t seem very amused. It’s safe to assume Yakin told them they’ll be on the couch.

Referee in Lucerne is the famous Italian Daniele Orsato (47). At the World Cup in Qatar, he led the semi-final between Argentina and Croatia. In 2020, he was the referee of the Champions League final Bayern vs. PSG. And he whistled the aforementioned Swiss dream match 2018 against Belgium in Lucerne.

Laughing, Xherdan Shaqiri enters the media room for the Matchday 1 conference. When the questions from Romania are limited to three and a journalist from the visiting team complains, Shaq says, “Do you have so many questions for me?” One of them is for friends from Romania. Shaq: “I have friends all over the world!” Big smile. “Also from Romania, of course. For example, the striker who sat with me at Inter Milan. What was his name again? Ah, yes: Puscas. A familiar name, I knew it…»

Ianis Hagi (24), son of the legendary Georghe, who is almost the only one in Romania’s squad playing for a big club, Glasgow Rangers, claims: “I want to play and win in Lucerne from the start. We don’t fly like extras to Switzerland.” Hagi junior, who had been injured for a long time, came on in the 87th minute of the 0-0 draw against Kosovo in Pristina and made a good physical impression.

Gregor Kobel would have liked to keep a clean sheet for the first time in his fifth national team game. Doesn’t work in Andorra either. “A bit annoying. But the most important thing was that we did our job with the win.” Kobel is powerless in conceding a goal, otherwise he could not distinguish himself because no ball flies into his penalty area. “It is always nicer for a keeper if he can fly through the air and hold balls, but such games are part of it.” Number one Yann Sommer will be in goal again on Monday. Is now the biggest fan of Kobel Sommer. The BVB goalkeeper was quick-witted: “I’m the team’s biggest fan”. (A. Ku.)

Source : Blick