The soaring was always followed by the crash. When the Super League restarts, St. Gallen and Servette want to go back up.
The first meeting ended without a winner
There will be a reunion in Geneva on Saturday.
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It was the unwritten law of the first half of the Super League: As soon as a team had taken first place in the Swiss championship, the (result) crisis followed. This meant that after 18 match days, seven (!) different teams were already greeting us from the leaderboard. There is no comparison to previous years, when the eventual champions usually broke away early on.
Live notice
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The game between Servette and St. Gallen will be live on SRF two on Saturday from 8:10 p.m. Kick-off at the Stade de Genève is at 8:30 p.m.
After St. Gallen’s excellent start to the season with 4 wins from the first 5 games, the next complete success in the championship did not follow until November 10th. In between, the “Espen” remained without a threesome for eight games.
-Triple load becomes single load
The Eastern Swiss were essentially victims of their own success in the fall. Thanks to qualification for the Conference League, coach Enrico Maassen’s team was in action almost every three days and already has 33 competitive games under its belt after the first half of the year. For comparison: Sion, neighbors in the table, only played 21 games in the same period.
The dense program gnawed at the substance of “Green-Weiss”. St. Gallen dragged itself into the winter break with numerous injuries and is probably secretly happy that it can no longer continue in the Conference League after finishing 29th in the league phase. Since the Eastern Swiss team has already been eliminated from the cup, the match program in the new year will be thinned out considerably.
Calm on the transfer front
Servette, the opponent at the restart on Saturday, looks back on a similarly complicated autumn. Coach Thomas Häberli’s team was briefly the leader after the 11th matchday, before they only won the one against Lugano out of the next seven games. Before the Christmas break, the Geneva team lost at YB and slipped to 5th place.
The two teams also have other things in common. Both St. Gallen and Servette prepared for the restart in the warmth of Spain. And so far things have remained quiet at both clubs on the transfer front. The only “new signing” is Servette’s Valton Behrami, who is returning to Geneva after a loan spell at Delémont.
If he wins, Servette could at least move back into the lead by Sunday afternoon – even if that doesn’t bode well for the coming rounds.
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