For you, Nati goalkeeper number 2 Gregor Kobel (right) must now replace the usual holder, Yann Sommer. Image: KEYSTONE
According to our survey, readers of watson want to see Yann Sommer replaced by Gregor Kobel in the Swiss goal this Saturday (6:00 p.m.), in the 8th finals of the Euro against Italy.
Murat Yakin has accustomed us to surprises in his lineup since the start of this Euro. And according to our survey, you want the national coach to prepare a very big one for us, this Saturday in the round of 16 against Italy (6 p.m.).
In fact, 48% of you want Gregor Kobel, the Nati’s number two goalkeeper, to replace the usual (and long-time uncontested) starter Yann Sommer against the Transalpines. Only 43% of the 1,461 voters believe that Yakin should keep Sommer. The remaining 9% is granted to goalkeeper number 3, Fribourgeois Yvon Mvogo.
The results of the survey
image: watson
This poll was included in a previous article, where our colleagues Bruno Knellwolf and François Schmid-Bechtel debated which goalkeeper to field against Italy. It was clearly the arguments of Bruno Knellwolf, a pro-Kobel, that convinced you. And we can’t say that he minced his words. An example?
“What we need against Italy is a goalkeeper like Gregor Kobel. Someone who, unlike Yann Sommer, doesn’t collapse after 8 out of 10 shots, to watch the ball slip away in despair. We need a rock. A goalkeeper who, with his fierce gaze, will be able to bring the destabilized Italians to their knees. A man as massive as the Saint-Gothard and who, thanks to his 88 kilos of muscles, his wingspan and his determination in the air, will get into the opponent’s head from the first ball touched.”
Bruno Knellwolf
The journalist from CH Media, a group to which belongs watson, also put forward a more psychological argument, linked to the Italian club in which Yann Sommer plays, Inter Milan. By relegating him to the bench, we would send the Transalpines a message capable of humiliating them, in a way. Like: “Hey, dear neighbor, look! We don’t even need your Italian champion goalkeeper, we are so strong!”
Will Gregor Kobel take Yann Sommer’s place on Saturday? Image: KEYSTONE
Bruno Knellwolf also compared the performances of Sommer – whose ball he did not forget to recall on Germany’s canceled goal – and Kobel, praising the stats of the Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper:
“He led Dortmund to the Champions League final. With six clean sheets, he is the goalkeeper who has kept the most clean sheets in the most prestigious club competitions.”
In any case, we hope for the Zurich player – provided that Murat Yakin listens to your preferences and lines him up – and all of Switzerland that he will achieve another clean sheet this Saturday in Berlin… (yog)
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