After a late draw in the “6-point game”: Coach Frick’s halftime speech keeps Lucerne in the line battle

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FC Luzern continues to fight for the Champions Group. In the “6-point match” in St. Gallen, it seemed until injury time that the Central Swiss team would miss the connection. But Joker Lars Villiger (20) saves Frick’s side with his last-minute goal to make it 1-1 – and with it the chance to reach the top 6 after 33 games when the competition is divided.

Especially in the first half, it is difficult to see that Lucerne really wants to be in the top six. “Maybe some of them were scared, too nervous,” midfielder Max Meyer (28) speculated about Lucerne’s weak first half. The FCL misses almost everything that is important in a match like this.

“Play our FCL football”

It doesn’t help that defensive stalwart Denis Simani (32) collides violently with opponent Willem Geubbels (22) after about twenty minutes. This does not wake up the rest of the FCL troops. “We didn’t go into the match with the right attitude. This shouldn’t happen to us. Even though we have a young team, the pressure is there and the stakes are high. “It’s always hectic against St. Gallen, just like the scene with Geubbels,” Simani grins about his chat with the Espen striker. “It was important that the coach found the right words during the break. That was a wake-up call.”

Lucerne coach Mario Frick (49) describes the wake-up call as follows: “I told the team that it doesn’t matter if we end up in the bottom six of the table. But at least play braver football, play with joy, play our FCL football.”

“We have nothing left to lose”

This also works after the change. And that means that Lucerne is still in the race for the top 6. «It would definitely have been over if we had lost. “Then we should have made sure we were enough points away from the barrage,” Frick said, before immediately switching to attack mode. «We are still alive with the draw. I hope the late equalizer is a liberating blow to our psyche. Since we have nothing left to lose and still have every chance, we are only three points away, we now have two home games (against Yverdon and Lausanne-Sport, editor) – and now it is up to us to continue the momentum from the standstill put time. “

This also means that the four-way battle between the FCL, St. Gallen, Winterthur and the FCZ for the last three places in the championship round is still exciting and is far from over.

Source : Blick