Contract extension is becoming increasingly unlikely: even a miracle from Lisbon cannot save YB coach Wicky

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He does not move the team and the players forward. For months, it’s always been the same tenor when it comes to YB’s Raphael Wicky. These are the main reasons why the doubles coach’s contract has still not been renewed.

Bankruptcies, bad luck and naivete

If you take the 1:3 against Sporting Lisbon as a benchmark, the critics should see themselves confirmed. It was grist to their mill. Above all, the incredible number of simple mistakes and naivety are good arguments for no longer employing the Upper Valais resident. There are: a lot of ball losses in the transition game. After just five minutes. This is deadly for teams of this caliber. Then Ali Camara received a stupid yellow card early on, which meant he was suspended for the second leg in Lisbon. Then Aurèle Amenda’s incredible own goal. Why does the neo-Frankfurter go for the ball so much, even though he has no pressure from an opponent? Goalkeeper David von Ballmoos’ penalty foul falls into the same category. Why does the veteran attack like that even though the ball felt like it was near the corner flag?

Amenda’s foul, which leads to the free kick, followed by the third Portuguese goal, is also one of the ‘totally naive’ brand. Moreover, the yellow-red card against Camara is not necessarily necessary since the hit Trinçao is about 70 meters away from the YB goal before the counter-attack.

All in all: these are just as stupid mistakes as we saw in the group stage of the Champions League. At the time, everyone – players, coaches, sports director – said like a prayer: that’s why games like this are there to learn and grow from. Apparently, the ability to learn doesn’t seem far away.

Wicky defends herself with standard stats

Wicky obviously sees it differently: “If I take the Champions League matches, we were very bad at set pieces in the first to third games. Offensive and defensive. However, we were very good in the four to six games. We didn’t get a standard goal and scored two. This way the team can learn. There is no shortage of that. For smaller teams, set pieces are often the path to success. In this case we are the smaller team and we need to be able to use the set pieces to our advantage and not the opponent’s. But that was not the case against Sporting. So a setback.

Is there a miracle in Lisbon?

The chances of Wicky being extended, now that it’s already mid-February, become smaller with each subsequent game like this. To change that, it will take a miracle in Lisbon. Wicky himself believes in it: “I am convinced that we can win there. To do this we have to play a perfect game. Everything is possible in football.”

Is the. But despite everything, miracles are rare. Otherwise there would be none. And even then, a contract extension wouldn’t suddenly be more likely than before.

Source : Blick