Moves, quadra and remake
What should not be missed in the first round of the Swiss Cup
Gathering of amateur and elite football, the Swiss Cup offers unique stories each year. Here are some before the first round of this weekend.
FC Basel is the title holder. He begins his career to defend his title against the team that had stood up against him last season in the final.
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FC Bienne (Promotion League)-FC Basel (Super League), Saturday, at 8:30 p.m., in Saint-Jacques
The intersisons allow players to rest, the clubs to restructure themselves and, when necessary, the stadiums to rebuild themselves. Only, the development work that concerns them have the annoying tendency to extend until the start of the championships, or even long after.
Vevey cannot welcome Lausanne to Copet on Sunday because of that. The same goes for Bienne, whose lawn of his tissot Arena is currently torn off to be replaced by synthetic. But in the case of the Seelanders, it is symbolically rather well: the poster of the last final of The Swiss Cup will be replayed identically … but in the first round of the competition!
Bien-bâleit was the duel that made the followers of Swiss football shiver on 1is last June. The Biennois became, that day, at Parc Saint-Jacques, the first promotion team League to access the final, to defend their luck more than 12,000 of their supporters (4-1 defeat) more than.
The duel on Saturday was exchanged, so as to play it in the same place. And Bienne will not be less dangerous than two months ago. This is one of the first big challenges for Ludovic Magnin at the head of FC Basel. After the double Cup/Super League last season, an entrance elimination would go wrong.
Vevey-Sports (Promotion League)-Lausanne-Sport (Super League), Sunday, at 3:30 p.m., at La Tour-de-Peilz
Usually very active on social networks to raise the sauce around its arrivals and departures of players, Vevey-Sports has been clearly more discreet in recent weeks. “It would have been a lack of respect to announce recruits while educators must still be paid,” explains Salim Karib, its sports director.
It’s a good reminder: this spring again, bankruptcy hung in the nose of the vs. The arrival of a new president, Fatlind Rama, since June, should allow the club to get out of it. The future will testify, or not. The fact remains that the Veveysans were able to leave for a new League promotion season, with a nice premium gift: the reception of Lausanne-Sport.
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Is Lausanne the Super League club most threatened by this first Tour of the Swiss Cup? Probably. The Lausannois spent the night from Thursday to Friday in Astana’s return plane. A boon for a Vevey who does not rely on the most competitive team of the third division, beaten last weekend in Bavois (3-1), but who has been delighting the big cups for several years. Last year, in the second round, Young Boys had to wait for the 83e To pass the shoulder.
The final question may be: who from Vevey or Lausanne will best adapt to the Tour-de-Peilz field, theater of the meeting?
Veyrier Sports (2e League)-Stade Lausanne-Ouchy (Challenge League), Saturday, at 6 p.m., in Veyrier
Matias Vitkieviez had retired. Left behind his more than 250 national league matches. Rangeted his goals, his shots. All that, one beautiful day in 2021. And yet: the attacker will be well on the field of Veyrier on Saturday. To try to win the club of 2e Geneva league.
“Veyrier, it’s special for me: this is the town where I lived during the climb with Servette in 2011,” justified the young Quadra, who painfully spoke with the Seniors of Star Carouge in the past four years, justified in Proxifoot. Does the original Uruguayan still sufficiently under the sole to make Stadium Lausanne-Ouchy tremble and erase the four divisions of deviation?
If the stadists consider the challenge a little too easy, here is another clue to encourage them to be cautious. Their former magician Yanis Lahiouel, top promotion scorer League the season when the SLO goes up for the first time in its history in the National League, found a club. And this club is called Veyrier.
Enough to give a little spice to a Lake Geneva poster which nevertheless remains highly unbalanced. The 2e Geneva league will not resume until August 23.
FC Le Communal Sport Le Locle (2e ligue) – FC Saxon Sports (2e League), Saturday, at 6 p.m., at Locle
Each Swiss cup round has that of magic that it is preceded by a draw. A great moment of feverishness for teams that only set foot in competition once a decade at most. There are good surprises then. And there is this Locle-Saxon, which does not really please either.
After tearing off to win their respective regional cuts, the two rivals of a day were able to say that they had deserved to come across a big piece. Just to get the train kicked, but with the way. No luck: they will face an opponent of their level, with the sneaky risk of being ejected in the anonymity of a competition supposedly pointing the lights on them.
No fatality in there, on the contrary. Last season, the Locle had succeeded in a small feat in the first round by emanating Farthtina Berne, team of 1re League, to afford the right to valiantly face the Grand FC Zurich then (3-0 defeat).
This is the winning formula. Only one will find it on Saturday. The other will already be able to think about the surest way to win his regional cup again, the only way for a team of 2e League to qualify for the Swiss Cup. Unless you are the most fair play team in the country at the end of the season. You might as well keep the method in a corner of your head.
Dardania Lausanne (2e Inter)-Servette FC (Super League), Sunday, at 3:30 p.m., in Chavannes-Près-Renens
After starting his Servettien journey at the Galgenwaard stadium in Utrecht, the new garnet coach Jocelyn Gourvennec will continue his SFC discovery by going to Chavannes-Près-Renens. Beware of the change of scenery. Especially since it is a land where the big stables of the country really like to occur.
It is necessary to put into perspective: the Genevans should spend a quiet Sunday in Vaud lands in front of a formation of 2e Inter. Unless doubt is part of it. A crisis that has been brooding since the resumption, two guards who take turns to better offer goals to the opponent, the fatigue of European matches that are linked: it happens quickly.
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And then there is the echo of last year. After a half-time, Dardania Lausanne thought he was able to release a Yverdon Sport still a resident of Super League, reduced to ten and held in check. The North Vaudois had ended up getting out of it (3-0), but they did not have fun.
Winner of the last Vaud cup, the Lausannois know how to represent amateur football in the Swiss Cup with dignity. Especially since they rely on several terrors regional terrains whose talent is no longer to be proven. Servette is warned. In his situation, he really does not have the right to make mistakes.
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