Wicky’s system change as the origin of the 1:3?: YB denied his own DNA against Leipzig

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Even against Maccabi Haifa there was no doubt who was playing. Away and in Wankdorf. And also not which tactic is chosen. The same elf twice. Twice 4-diamond-2. YB does not score a goal and confidently qualifies for the group stage.

Then RB Leipzig awaits. Perhaps the best Bundesliga team at the moment. Wicky is a child of the Bundesliga, 218 games for Werder Bremen and HSV. However, at a time when RB did not yet exist. But the respect for the opponent, who has now won twelve of his last thirteen league matches, seems enormous. So much so that Wicky throws everything overboard. At least that’s brave. For the first time ever in his 58th game for YB, he played three-point defense. And he cuts three players from the starting lineup compared to the playoffs. Okay, he couldn’t use Fabian Rieder anymore.

Blue Sport expert Marco Streller before the match: “Raphael Wicky has always opted for very good tactics in the Champions League.” Because the Upper Valaisian had the best Swiss Premier League season in history in 2017 with FC Basel. That did not stop Streller, then FCB sporting director, from throwing Wicky out shortly afterwards.

First home defeat in over a year

The result of Wicky Poker? A first phase never seen before in the history of the Champions League. A total disaster with four RB shots in the first three minutes, with the 0:1 as a negative highlight. Release the fear!

Anyway. YB bites into the match, but the bottom line is that it is too light to seriously compete against Leipzig and suffers its first home defeat in more than a year, since the 0-1 against Anderlecht in August 2022. shots. 3 to 8 on target. 3 to 7 corners. Numbers don’t always lie.

Kastriot Imeri completely frustrated

And in the end the question arises: why turn everything upside down? Because what remains is the frustration of an evening when you never quite got rid of the impression that RB didn’t seem invulnerable. And also frustration with the changes. Kastriot Imeri, usually the man of creativity, stayed on the bench for 90 minutes and threw his warm-up shirt on the bench out of frustration after the last substitution (Nsame came in the 85th minute).

Wicky says he chose this option after the Xamax game. “I have discussed this with the staff and the team. In these kinds of things I often take the team with me, because at the end of the day the players are on the field.” Imeri was certainly not the player to applaud.

‘Not because of the system…’ everyone says

And? Was it satisfying? Wicky says what coaches always say when a system isn’t working. Namely that you didn’t lose because of the system. And that is in principle never wrong. “We analyzed that and said that this formation could be interesting to stop Leipzig’s game a bit. To run against the Germans. That we try to close against their very good and often central play. That was part of our plan and we did our best for a long time to implement it and it worked out well. Not all automatisms were perfect. But that has nothing to do with the system.”

If YB has so much respect at home against RB that everything is thrown overboard, you have to assume that this will happen twice against the can club and against City. It would be wrong. Because the YB DNA includes: We play forward. For example, Noah Persson and Kastriot Imeri would have been good.

Now to hell Marakana

Now it’s off to Belgrade, where YB can’t lose if it doesn’t want to fall behind after the second game in the race for its stated goal of third place. Courage will be needed in the hell of Marakana. same as Haifa. And there was no systemic change there.

Source : Blick