Third defeat in a row: Zeidler: ‘Let’s not go crazy’

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It fits the current situation of FC St. Gallen: in the 6th and final minute of extra time, substitute Felix Mambimbi still has a chance to score the equalizer against Lucerne. But the young Berner hammers the ball ten meters over the goal from eleven meters.

Now it is not the case that the Eastern Swiss are the weaker team in Lucerne, on the contrary. In the first fifteen minutes after halftime and a fairly quiet first half, the team from St. Gallen is powerful. Immediately after the restart, Witzig hits the crossbar. Shortly afterwards, Quintilla almost caught FCL keeper Loretz with a treacherous touchdown. St. Gallen should be in the lead at this point.

Instead, Lucerne coach Mario Frick makes three changes after just under an hour and is rewarded.

Eastern Swiss fear for their harvest

Chader, Max Meyer and Haas give wings to the attacking game of Central Switzerland. And as the Eastern Swiss team failed to clear a ball they thought was safe on the right side of the defense in the 72nd minute, disaster set in. Thibault Klidjé hits the mark after a quick combination and scores Luzern’s winning goal.

It is the third victory in a row for the FCL and the third defeat in a row for St. Gallen. The Eastern Swiss do not want to speak of a crisis, but after the 1:4 at home against Lugano eight days ago, the 0:2 on Wednesday against Servette and now this 0:1 in Lucerne, they suddenly have to worry about their harvest. Lucerne has moved up to two points. Fabian Schubert and Albert Vallci are visibly shocked after the match. “It shouldn’t happen to us that we give away the match like that, I can’t explain it,” says Schubert. “We literally begged for this goal,” Vallci regrets.

No penalty tasks for players

Coach Peter Zeidler, a teacher by profession and motivator by profession, also has problems: “We have to score one or two goals first. Clearly more would have been possible today.” The man who worked as a teacher for twenty years knows that three defeats mean zero points. However, it does not impose any penalty tasks on its players. And he doesn’t want to talk about a crisis either. “We are certainly not going to let ourselves be fooled now. The week without competitions will do us good. We will train hard.”

Next weekend we go to Basel, after which St. Gallen plays against Winterthur and Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy.

There should not be three more defeats, otherwise we would have to speak of a serious crisis in Eastern Switzerland, even though the team is currently in third place.

Source : Blick