Like a slow yellow-black bumblebee: these are the symptoms of a crisis at YB

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Leader in the Super League, participant in the Champions League and wintered in Europe. The fact that YB is currently discussing the symptoms of a crisis is not due to what has been achieved so far, but rather the negative trend that jeopardizes what has been achieved.

On Thursday evening, one of the goals of the season was finally forgotten: the Champions League club was partly demonstrated as defending champions by the Challenge League club Sion in the cup quarter-finals. What’s wrong with the double winner who will no longer be a double winner?

Again less heart than the opponent

YB’s cup defeat in Sion (1:2) is the continuation of the top battle lost four days earlier against Servette (0:1). Episode two in a confrontation with fiery Romans. Episode two, in which YB buzzes around the lawn like a lazy yellow-and-black bumblebee and is disturbed by bolder, buzzing mosquitoes.

Not that YB doesn’t want to, but the determination doesn’t show up on the field. That’s what coach Raphael Wicky said after the cup match. He confirms that the Valais were more fervent: “Yes, they won more duels in the center. I don’t want to blame the team for not doing enough. We run. But we have to win these games.”

Only someone who loudly opposes that

Although goalkeeper David von Ballmoos (29) is on the bench in the cup, he is the most energetic Berner. He jumps up in his winter coat to throw the ball to his colleague to speed up the game (37th). He berates the fourth official after an uncalled foul during a YB counterattack (45th). And he gets a yellow card because he curses like a pigeon in the final phase and goes over the sideline.

You don’t have to do both, but ball moss brings energy. Only: They don’t move on the field. For example, striker Silvere Ganvoula (27) has a similar profile to the departed YB legend Jean-Pierre Nsame, but despite scoring the next goal, he is not yet a driver for the decisive moments. Symbolic: In the 91st minute, the Congolese hit the crossbar from very close range.

Established top performers are no longer there

In addition to Nsame, YB also gave up Nati defender Ulisses Garcia in the winter. Whether his talented replacement Jaouen Hadjam (20), a French-Algerian who had just moved here, could imagine what awaited him as an away team in a cup quarter-final against Sion in the tourbillon? And has Hadjam made a single cross of the quality of Garcia’s balls into the center in his eight appearances so far?

YB is unlucky with that. Loris Benito (32) is an excellent communicator and a language genius, which is why he is invaluable to the team. Moreover, he has been so strong lately that he was called up to the national team again. But the central defender suffered a torn cruciate ligament in early February, leaving a hole.

The Wicky Theater has reached March

It will now take just over three months before coach Wicky’s contract expires. And there is still no clarity. It is a difficult situation that is not only familiar to YB. But also, for example, Bayern with Thomas Tuchel, who has now made it clear that he has to leave at the end of the season. If you don’t necessarily want to continue with a trainer, what should you do? Deciding the season is over and portraying the coach as a lame duck? Or having to endure questions week in and week out about what the status is?

YB chose the second option. Never say anything concrete about the situation surrounding the man who led the Bernese team to the national title, cup victory and the Champions League. The thoughts about whether it is better to break up early are gradually coming to the surface. YB drew the line under the David Wagner era two years ago on March 7. But you weren’t a leader then either.

Other disruptive factors recently came into play: champion hero Nsame’s late kick after his departure or the goalkeeper’s hiccups at the end of the year until Von Ballmoos was confirmed as number one. YB has raised the bar to lofty heights with his years of sovereignty and composure – and now faces the challenge of not failing.

Source : Blick