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Two league victories in a row, the semi-finals of the Conference League in front of the chest: FCB defender Michael Lang would have enough reasons to be in a good mood. But when asked about the schedule for the semi-final against Fiorentina, the defending veteran gets angry. And sends a poison arrow in the direction of the league’s scheduling department: “About the whole season: what’s scheduled against FCB is brutal!”
Background: Red-Blue will receive FC Zurich next Sunday afternoon. The trip to Italy on Wednesday, and the semi-final first leg against Florence the following day. In the case of the red and blue, they would have liked their league game against Zurich brought forward to Saturday. And Lang and Co. would have one day more rest before the first leg of the semi-final.
Lang continues: “That should not be an excuse: but we have already had three away games in one week this season: Sunday in Lugano, Wednesday in St. Gallen and Saturday in Lucerne. On purpose or not: but we are not taken into account . »
FCB looks enviously at Leverkusen
Which should also fuel the anger of the Baslers: in the Bundesliga, the league game originally scheduled for Sunday by Bayer Leverkusen has been brought forward to Friday – so that the Werkself can go into the semi-finals of the first leg of the Europa League recovered next week . Leverkusen’s initiative preceded the postponement of the match. Would that also have been possible for FCB?
The Baslers have not requested a game shift for the classic against FCZ. “No, we have not become active”, interim coach Heiko Vogel confirms – and gives an idea why: “In many countries it is possible to adjust the schedule. But with us there are at least 1000 reasons why this is not possible …»
Actually? According to Blick information from competition circles, postponing the home game against FCZ would not have been as hopeless as Vogel thinks. An exchange with the game between Sion and Winterthur scheduled for Saturday would have been purely organizational. With an application from FCB, Wallis, TV rights holder Blue and the authorities should have agreed. But simply: red-blue has not even tried and the league does not take action itself in such cases.
By the way: in the future there should be a “Lex Playoffs” in the Super League regulations – the clubs will vote on it at the League’s General Assembly at the end of May. Teams that made it to the play-offs (last hurdle before the group stage) in the European Cup qualifiers should be able to request a free weekend between the first and second leg of the play-offs.
Source : Blick
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