Bad mistake as trigger: curious summer premiere in the national team

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68th minute between Switzerland and Andorra: The national team launches a counter-attack when the score is 1-0, which the Pyrenees kickers suddenly stop. In the form of a brutal attack by Eric Vales in the legs of the sprinting Dan Ndoye. Pack formation occurs immediately. Manuel Akanji is one of the first on the scene and pushes Vales away. After the match the City defender said: “I wanted to protect our player, that should actually be the referee’s job.”

But referee Elchin Masiyev from Azerbaijan does exactly the opposite: instead of red for Vales, the culprit only gets yellow. Akanji is also warned. And then, when things seem to have calmed down a bit, Masiyev goes to the Swiss substitutes’ bench, asks Murat Yakin and Yann Sommer to come to him and also shows them the yellow card.

Yann Sommer with a strange premiere

Yakin looks like he no longer understands the world. When Blick asked what was going on, he said: “First of all, the foul only came from the side on our player’s legs. A clear red card for me. It is incomprehensible that the referee decided otherwise. I then asked the fourth official whether the VAR would still be used. Very decent. I left the coaching area about three feet. The referee took it very seriously at this point…”

Yann Sommer was on the bench against Andorra as planned. He wasn’t supposed to get a yellow card. And now it gets strange: for the 34-year-old it is the first yellow card ever as a national player. In his 84 appearances on the pitch since 2012 he has come through without warning, now he gets his first as a substitute. And that also because the referee completely misjudged the foul on Ndoye.

Yakin: “It’s our own fault”

Summer must be able to cope with the strange premiere – and quickly focus on the future. This weekend there is the first major highlight in the clothing of his new club Inter Milan. The city derby against AC Milan.

And Yakin? He appears cool after fulfilling his duty against Andorra. Also when he was asked about the dispute with Granit Xhaka after his training criticism. “You in the media have made the story bigger than it is. But we have ourselves to thank for that. The conversation with Granit was not a discussion in the classic sense of the word, but rather a good exchange between captain and coach. It was also about private matters. We approached each other. Granit gave the answer against Andorra and emerged as leader in the centre.

Source : Blick