The promotion battle in the Challenge League is coming to a head

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Starting position: much less sovereign than assumed before the season – but the league Croesus is on course for mandatory promotion. Especially as the team with the highest quality in the league started a successful race to catch up after the weak preliminary round in the new year. Three years after his resignation from FCZ, coach Ludovic Magnin waves to a return to the Super League.

The asset: striker Brighton Labeau (27) is the life insurer of Lausanne with his 19 goals this season. The Frenchman has repeatedly decided games on his own this season.

Remaining program: Yverdon (a), Xamax (a), Thun (a), Wil (a), Aarau (a).

Blick Prediction: Climber (Rank 1).

Starting position: the leader still meets all five competitors for promotion! But the Vaudois are mentally stable and physically robust. Yverdon scored 20 of his 56 points in previous games against the chasing quintet. The situation next to the square is more delicate. Yverdon is about to be sold to Italian investors, so despite imminent promotion there have been no talks about contract extensions.

The asset: a cool head and Marco Schällibaum (61) only seems like a contradiction. A year ago, the experienced coach in Bellinzona showed how you can get promoted despite a hectic environment.

Remaining program: Lausanne (h), Thun (h), Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy (a), Aarau (h), Wil (a).

Blick Prediction: Climber (Rank 2).

Initial situation: player rebellion, change of coach, fan riots, resignation of the president and mediocrity at the table: FC Aarau produced a series of negative headlines in the first three quarters of the season. All the more astonishing is the resurgence with four wins from the last four games. If there is also a threesome in the home game against Wil on Friday, FCA is again a hot candidate for promotion. Just as you imagined at the start of the season in Brügglifeld.

Trumpf: Nowhere, not even in Aarau itself, would you have recently bet on a return to the promotion race. The team of coach Boris Smiljanic can play freely, the pressure is on the other clubs.

Remaining program: Wil (h), Vaduz (a), Schaffhausen (h), Yverdon (a), Lausanne (h).

Blick Prediction: Barrage (Rank 3).

Starting position: After a run of nine games without a defeat, things are going fast since the bankruptcy against Aarau. Five rounds before the end, five or six points are missing for a barrage or promotion place.

Trump: For the people of Thun, promotion is not a must. That’s what coach Mauro Lusrinelli recently said to Blick. “Our goal is to return to the Super League in three to four years. But if it happens now, so much the better.” The “may” and not “must” could play a decisive role in the Bernese Oberland.

Remaining programme: Vaduz (h), Yverdon (a), Lausanne (h), Bellinzona (a), Schaffhausen (h).

Blick Prediction: Rank 4.

Initial situation: “Everything is possible, nothing is compulsory” is the motto on the Bergholz. FC Wil has a mini budget of 3 million and is individually weaker than the other promotion candidates. In addition, goalkeeper Marvin Keller (20) lost one of the most important players to YB during the winter break.

Trump: Coach Brunello Iacopetta (38). The youth coach of FC St. Gallen has scored 1.71 points per game for years this season. A strong record given the limited resources.

Remaining program: Aarau (a), Bellinzona (a), Vaduz (u), Lausanne (a), Yverdon (u).

Blick Prediction: Rank 5.

Background: Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy finished the first half of the season in a sensational second place. But the wave was overshadowed by a terrible black streak. There were three tragic deaths in the club and surrounding area to deal with. Since then, Anthony Braizat’s team has only taken 13 points. She dropped to 6th place in the table.

Trumpf: Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy probably has the lightest program remaining. Moreover, last weekend’s victory in a direct duel with Wil – with endless referee conversations – should give the Vauders a lot of guts.

Remaining program: Xamax (H), Schaffhausen (A), Yverdon (H), Vaduz (A), Bellinzona (H).

Blick prediction: 6th place.

Source : Blick