Everything about the 27th matchday: FCZ-Canepa reveals secret, FCB-Celestini feels sorry

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It may be a rollercoaster ride in terms of results, but FC St. Gallen has to admit one thing: the entertainment factor of matches with Espen participating is high. This is now also supported by an incredible statistic: St. Gallen has not played 0-0 in no fewer than 117 (!) competitive matches. The last time was on April 17, 2021 against Lucerne. To put things into perspective: At the time, the YB coach was called Gerardo Seoane and the FCB president was Bernhard Burgener. St. Gallen coach Peter Zeidler told Blick about the crazy sequence: “We have a lot of attackers, we are not behind and statistically we often have the most shots on target.”

“Our work is incredible,” says Fabio Celestini about the release of YB coach Raphael Wicky (46). The fact that the Bernese say goodbye to their trainer as leader makes Celestini shake his head. “I’m sorry for Raphael, he’s a friend of mine,” said the FCB coach. Instead of meeting Wicky, there will now be a duel with YB interim coach Joël Magnin (52) on Sunday. An opportunity for FCB? “I don’t know,” says Celestini. But what the Lausanne resident knows exactly: the team from Basel has been waiting for a victory in Wankdorf since 2016.

FCZ chairman Ancillo Canepa (70) is humorous at the press conference prior to Saturday’s match in Yverdon. On Friday he answered the question that has often been asked lately about the influence of sports director Milos Malenovic (39) in daily affairs and revealed “what it really is like”: “On the morning of the match day with coffee, I take a snack tray, write down the team’s lineup and give it to Milos. Milos takes the typewriter, puts a sheet of paper on it, writes it down and passes it all on to the trainers.”

‘I can guarantee one thing. We will certainly have a new coach for the new season,” FCZ chairman Canepa explains without being asked. When asked whether he had been understood correctly and whether the co-head coaching duo of Murat Ural and Umberto Romano really had no future, he returned: “Again, I really can’t say anything about it at the moment. Everything is open.” In short: you can assume that a new head coach will join FCZ in the summer.

Coach René Weiler has already given an indication of his line-up for Sunday’s derby at Lake Geneva against Lausanne-Sport: Miroslav Stevanovic, Alexis Antunes and Timothé Cognat, who all started on the bench against Viktoria Plzen during the week, will start to play . Joël Mall, Takuma Nishimura and Dylan Bronn are also expected to appear. The starting eleven is therefore converted by 50 percent compared to the first leg of the European Cup round of 16.

«Can we win in Geneva? Of course we can, we are capable of beating anyone. The problem is that we are not consistent for 90 minutes, even though things have improved recently. We must learn to play dirty and defend a result at all costs, as we did in the final phase in Basel.” This is what Lausanne midfielder Antoine Bernede said to Blick, two days before the match against Servette. The Parisian also reveals his language talent, which certainly comes in handy on the field. “I speak English with Jamie Roche, my midfield partner. And with the referees I speak German, the language I learned in Salzburg. But they don’t always like that ”, he laughs.

Stade Lausanne-Ouchy is the only team in the Super League to accredit more scouts than journalists for its home games. Scouts from Germany (Wolfsburg), France and Spain will also travel this weekend to observe storm jewel Ismaël Gharbi. On the sporting front, SLO still believes in staying in the competition, even if hope diminishes week by week. The aim is to reduce the gap with Barrageplatz to six to seven points against the relegation round and then attack again.

In the Stade Municipal they are still not convinced that Winti defender Diaby was not sent off the field for his tackle on Yverdon’s Sauthier. After all: the season is not over yet for veteran Sauthier, but he is doubtful against FCZ. The faltering Romans took courage from the last game against Zurich, when the score was clearly 3-0.

Source : Blick