From championship candidate to problem child: five reasons why the FCZ is descending into crisis

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Derby’s bankruptcies are bitter. Especially when the decisive goal comes in the last second. This happened to FCZ on Sunday against GC. The 2-1 defeat was the fifth game without a win in a row. Coach Bo Henriksen’s team was still a championship candidate at the end of November, but is now in a crisis of form. Why? Blick mentions five problems that Zurich faces.

Certainly the standings did well in the 284th derby and improved significantly in the second after a weak first half. The fact that the Hoppers managed to win 2-1 was also thanks to their opponents. FC Zurich completely collapsed in the second half and looked like a substitute, and not for the first time. This pattern was already noticeable at FCZ in the first match after the winter break against Basel. At least then there was a point. The question that arises is: does the coaching team still reach the players as desired?

Right winger Nikola Boranijasevic was substituted against GC in the 67th minute when the score was 1-0; there was no injury. His replacement led to a change in the system. The change did not have the desired effect, on the contrary. From that moment on, almost everything took place on the side where Boranijasevic previously played. GC came into the match better. “We practiced that at training camp. “The system also changes if the opponent finds his way better in the game,” said Murat Ural, who represented suspended head coach Bo Henriksen, after the derby. “That only partially worked.”

After the departure of Aiyegun Tosin, Henriksen called for a new striker, but he is not there yet. So Daniel Afriyie can always play again. The Ghanaian scored twice in 19 first eleven appearances. A terrible figure for a striker. The people of Zurich need reinforcements at the front. Only three goals were scored in the last five games and the FCZ scored a total of 32 goals. Half of this goes to Jonathan Okita (9) and Antonio Marchesano (7). Too much dependence.

In November, the FCZ was still in the lead, and was now even the leader. This was followed by a draw against Lucerne, the historic defeat against Winterthur and a 0-1 against St. Gallen. “These matches leave a bad aftertaste” in the overall picture of the preliminary round, said chairman Canepa and sports director Malenovic, a bit grumpy before the New Year. Coach Bo Henriksen saw it differently and much more positively. Before the start of the second half of the season against Basel, he emphatically said how fantastic the previous round was and that before the current season he would not have thought such results would have been possible. The deep stacking shows that the perspectives of the superiors and the trainer are not the same.

It is an open secret that Henriksen informed FC Zurich early in the season that he did not want to renew his contract, which expired at the end of the season. The coach has never denied this. The unresolved contractual situation leads to avoidable and recurring discussions on the same subject. And causes unnecessary unrest.

Source : Blick