A POINT WORTH EUROPE
Lugano finished the Super League championship in fourth place and won the right to participate in the Conference or Europa League preliminaries in July. The decisive point came at the end of a good performance against YB. Match in which Croci-Torti's team, in addition to scoring a goal, made [...]
CROCI-TORTI: "WE WANT EUROPE FOR THE FOURTH YEAR"
Lugano held its last training session of this long season on Friday morning. Saturday at 6 p.m. in Cornaredo will be the official farewell with the game against YB. TWO ABSENTEES Two HCL players will be unavailable. The disqualified Martim Marques and Mattia Bottani who is suffering from a calf problem. WITH YB ALWAYS GOOD [...]
FC LUGANO - BSC YOUNG BOYS COUNTDOWN
After Basel's anticipated championship victory and the verdicts at the bottom of the standings on Thursday (Yverdon relegated and GC in the play-off against Aarau), only the names of the teams that will place second through sixth are now to be known. In contention for the vice-champions' chair are Servette (62 points and difference [...]
LAST 90 MINUTES WITH A VIEW OF EUROPE
Both proponents and critics of the new league formula admit one thing: that there is great suspense until the 90th minute of the last game. Only on Saturday night, in fact, the names of the teams that will accompany Basel to the various European competitions (better in the preliminaries) next season will be known. EVERYTHING OPEN SAVE THE TITLE Anything can [...]
VALUABLE POINT WON IN LAUSANNE
Perhaps the most important point of the season the one Lugano won Sunday afternoon in Lausanne, in the second away game in three days in the land of Romandy. After recovering the Vaudois' early lead, Croci-Torti's boys calmly controlled and brought home the draw. In the standings, with one day left [...]
FC LAUSANNE - FC LUGANO COUNTDOWN
The Championship Group will close the English week on the weekend. The HCL will be on stage Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in Lausanne. At the same time Lucerne and Servette face each other while YB-Basel is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Then on Saturday, May 24, at 6 p.m., the season will close with Lugano-YB, Servette-Lausanne and Basel-Lucerne. ON THE FIELD EVERY 4 DAYS Lugano [...]
CROSSES-TORTS AND BOTTOMS: HUMILITY AND UNITY OF PURPOSE
It seemed like a movie already seen in recent times with Lugano's opponent getting the most the times it entered the box while the HCLers, despite creating five sharp goal chances in the last quarter of an hour, failed to beat Mall (the best of his team). WE SUCK TOO MANY GOLS Coach Mattia [...]
LUGANO ALSO WITHOUT LUCK IN GENEVA
Another lucky game for Lugano, which returned from Geneva without points, with four goals to its credit (an own goal and a penalty) and especially with four balls that were well kicked into the net but did not go in due to miraculous interventions by the opponent's goalkeeper or saves on the line. ONE AUTOGOL PER PART The balance reigned throughout [...]
SHAQIRI SHOW TO BEAT LUGANO
On the eve of the match, HCL coach Mattia Croci-Torti had called Shaqiri unfailing and a player who always makes a difference. On the field, the prediction punctually came true. After a balanced first half, indeed with Lugano coming out on top, King Xherdan took the throne and practically single-handedly dragged his team to the [...]
"WITH BASILEA ALWAYS PLAYED ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD"
Anticipation is growing for the challenge between Lugano and Basel (Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Cornaredo) that could allow the Rhinelanders, depending also on the results of Servette on the field Sunday, to win the national title with three matches to spare. BOTTANI DISQUALIFIED The HCL players went through their finishing touches on Friday morning. They will certainly not be available [...]