Max Meyer alone on the bench: That’s why Luzern preferred to play against FCZ in the juniors

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Lucerne has a remarkable starting eleven for the away match at FCZ. The FCL plays in a way that was normal decades ago, but has now been unthinkable for a long time. Previously, almost only people from Lucerne played for Luzern, only people from Bern played for YB, only people from Basel played for FCB, and so on.

But nowadays? It seems as if it is too late that there is a whole three-man chain (with starting XI Mauricio Willimann, Severin Ottiger and Luca Jaquez) plus goalkeeper Pascal Loretz plus Dario Ulrich and Ardon Jashari in midfield, half a professional team with its own juniors can be set up.

Lucerne leads by a wide margin in the Young Talent Trophy

The young talent wonder from Lucerne. It is logical that with this performance in Zurich, the FCL lead in the Swiss Football League youth trophy will be even greater. There, the Central Swiss team is light years ahead of the competition with 5,717 minutes played by U21 players. The ranking of “Chaser” has 1817 minutes, Servette in the bottom place has two.

Against Zurich, Lucerne’s youth team is on average 23.0 years old. For comparison: the average for opponent FCZ is 26.9 years. FCL coach Mario Frick is acting this way because six potential permanent players are injured, Martin Frydek is suspended and Max Meyer is initially on the bench.

Max Meyer has an FCL expansion offer

Meyer is then substituted and promptly gets into the game to score the equalizer. Coach Frick: “Max Meyer brought football quality to our game.” So why did Frick decide not to use the German from the start? The rumor mill immediately wants to know that Meyer may be punished because he has not yet signed the FCL contract extension he has and is speculating on a free transfer to the Bundesliga next summer.

After the fortunate 1-1 draw at FCZ, Frick brushes such scenarios off the table. “It would be stupid to deliberately leave such a player out. I want to win the matches and always play as well as possible,” says the FCL coach, explaining that because of the FCZ he was dependent on eleven other players in the starting line-up. “It was agreed with Max that he would come for the last half hour, when the opponent may be a bit tired. He simply has a hard time if the opponent like Zurich is physically extremely strong.

Source : Blick