Relegation battle tough! Should the FCZ go to the barrage?

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The main question no longer arises. YB has raced to the top of the league. In the relegation battle, on the other hand, there is real pepper after the 28th matchday: In FC St. Gallen, coach Peter Zeidler calls for the relegation battle after the 2: 3 against Winterthur and the sixth game in a row without a win .

Bregy: ‘It shows that you are getting nervous at FCZ’

But above all, the FCZ stamped back into the relegation battle after the embarrassing 1: 4 in Lucerne. Tied on points with Sion and just one point ahead of Winterthur at the bottom. After the impressive catch-up race at the beginning of this year, people in Zurich even secretly dreamed of European places. “The dominance that FCZ showed is gone,” says former FCZ coach Georges Bregy in Blick Kick.

He sees signs that FCZ is getting nervous. First the referee’s criticism of Blerim Dzemaili in the half-time interview against St. Gallen, then Henriksen’s furious speech in the hut at half-time in Lucerne, which was so loud that all the journalists in the next room could hear it. Bregy: Was it right to be so loud? Perhaps he would have preferred to appeal to the pride of the players. It is usually better for coaches to remain calm in situations like this.” He thinks that half of the competition is in a relegation swamp. “Besides FCZ, Sion and Winterthur, I also see St. Gallen and GC in a relegation battle.”

FCZ legend Ruedi Landolt (65) is also a bit worried after the 1:4: “When I saw how the FCZ players stood in Lucerne, everything came back to me. It looked like we did then.” He means the 1987/88 season, when he was relegated as captain at the FCZ. The looseness should be gone by now, so Landolt, from now on it’s purely a matter of the head. “I know what it’s like to have a knife in your neck. That’s when every simple five-yard stride becomes difficult.” Coming Sunday he will be in the Letzigrund for the goal between “his” FCZ and St. Gallen.

FCZ legend Landolt: ‘There are even weaker teams than FCZ’

However the crisis ends, Landolt does not believe that FCZ will be the last. “My gut feeling tells me that FCZ will get away with it.” And where does this optimism come from? “Because there are weaker teams. Sion is a piñata, GC and St. Gallen are not out of the woods either. But my gut feeling tells me Winterthur will make it in the end. Although Bruno Berner’s team has a great fighting spirit, it is simply the weakest in terms of personnel.”

Incidentally, FCZ felt the same way until shortly before the end of the 2015/16 season. Nevertheless, the FCZ had to make a decision and was relegated as bottom of the table. This horror scenario does not come to fruition this season. As the bottom of the table, you still have a chance to stay in the league through the barrage against third in the Challenge League due to the league’s increase to twelve teams. From now on that would be FC Wil.

Landolt’s gut feeling says that FCZ will not be hit. The form table says otherwise. If you take the average score of the clubs from the last 5 matches and extrapolate this to the remaining 8 rounds, FCZ is last at the end of the season. With 38 points – one point behind newly promoted Winterthur.

Incidentally, based on the Challenge League form table, FC Thun still manages to get into third place and into the barrage. According to the extrapolation, Yverdon and Lausanne rise directly.

Source : Blick