Servette can no longer win and this is starting to be felt at the accounting level. Hooked by Zurich at home then defeated at Parc Saint-Jacques by and Shaqiri XXLthe Garnets let slip points that could prove valuable. A cog seems to have disrupted the great dynamic seen during the first month of the championship and Thomas Häberli’s players continue to stagnate. Now 4th in the Super League with 25 points on the clock, they see LS getting closer (23 points). The last Servetian victory dates back to October 27 and a 3-1 success at Letzigrund against Zurich.
No danger in the house, but…
Because if Servette is by far not in a dangerous position, the fact remains that the manner is enough to challenge. The Garnets try, resist, fight, but do not manage to “fold” their matches, unlike their direct opponents. These competitors, in fact, are positioning themselves more than ever to succeed Young Boys. Because if, 25 years later, some may have dreamed at the start of the season of an 18th Swiss championship title for the City of Calvin, it is clear that teams like FC Basel, FC Lugano or again FC Zurich seem in a better position to win the coveted Grail at the end of the year. A figure points in this direction: the goal difference of the Genevans is… 0! For comparison, the Rhinelanders have a score of +22 and, to find a negative goal difference, you have to go down the ranking to FC Sion, 8th in the ranking with -1.
“We are closer to winning than losing,” explains Jérémy Frick
Geneva goalkeeper Jérémy Frick could only confirm his disappointment at the RTS microphone following the defeat in Basel: “I don’t think we deserve to lose, we are closer to winning than losing, but in the end we can’t score, we shouldn’t concede this second goal, and we take a bit of a penalty stupidly, very clearly avoidable, at that moment in the match“. The last garnet rampart well summed up the feeling that prevails in his camp. What if Shaqiri had been less successful? What if the VAR decisions had gone to the advantage of the Genevans?
Geneva winger Derek Kutesa had already returned to the potential Servettian blockage when it comes to taking the reins of the ranking, by explaining the idea of the champion’s DNA, allowing the team which owns him to not not lose high-stakes matches and know how to raise your level to grab points even if the manner may be lacking. What if Servette managed to raise its voice and beat its direct competitors during these famous “6-point matches”? But with “ifs”, we would be putting Geneva in a bottle…
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