August 18 FT Basel 2 - 0 Lausanne Sports FT Thun 0 - 1 St. Gallen August 19 FT Servette 1 - 1 Zurich FT Sion 1 - 0 Young Boys Bern FT Lucerne 0 - 2 Grasshoppers
1. Sion 162. Basel 12 3. St. Gallen 124. Grasshoppers 11 5. Young Boys 86. Thun 7 7. Zürich 5 8. Lausanne-Sport 4 9. Luzern 3 10. Servette 2
August 25 19:45 Grasshoppers ? - ? Thun 19:45 St. Gallen ? - ? Basel August 26 13:45 Servette ? - ? Lucerne 13:45 Zurich ? - ? Sion 16:00 Young Boys Bern ? - ? Lausanne Sports FCSG and Basel highlight Saturday. Servette needs to get something from Luzern.
1. Sion 6/162. Basel 6/12 3. St. Gallen 6/124. Grasshoppers 6/11 5. Young Boys 6/86. Thun 6/77. Zürich 6/58. Lausanne-Sport 6/49. Luzern 6/3 10. Servette 6/2
August 25 FT Grasshoppers 1 - 0 Thun FT St. Gallen 2 - 1 Basel August 26 FT Servette 0 - 2 Lucerne FT Zurich 1 - 0 Sion FT Young Boys Bern 0 - 0 Lausanne Sports Interesting weekend. the FCSG - Basel match was a fun one to watch in the pouring rain. FCZ with the suprise win over Sion, and Servette looks terrible right now. Here are links to highlights: FCSG-Basel: http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/08/25/Fussball/St.-Gallen-zieht-an-Basel-vorbei GCZ - FC Thun:http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/08/25/Fussball/GC-feiert-den-3.-Sieg-in-Serie Servette - FC Thun: http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/08/26/Fussball/Luzerner-Lebenszeichen-in-Genf Servette started out the match well, and had a goal taken away, that really should not have been. They also gave up a questionable PK that was missed anyway. But once they went down on a sort of lucky goal, lots of diflections, they folded. Something needs to change quick for Servette. FCZ - FC Sion: http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/...sball/FCZ-besiegt-Sion-dank-Elfmeter-Geschenk YB - LS: http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/...l/Unbelohnte-YB-Ueberlegenheit-gegen-Lausanne 1. Sion 7/162. St. Gallen 7/153. Grasshoppers 7/144. Basel 7/125. Young Boys 7/96. Zürich 7/87. Thun 7/78. Luzern 7/69. Lausanne-Sport 7/510. Servette 7/2
After a little research this is the number of points the 8th place has earned since 2003/2004 season. This season is when the ASL became the Super League and the format changed. 2003-2004 38 points (37 needed) 2004-2005 32 points (Servette sent down over the winter break) 2005-2006 33 points 2006-2007 33 points (27 needed) 2007-2008 41 points (35 needed) 2008-2009 37 points (36 needed) 2009-2010 32 points 2010-2011 26 points (27 needed, also includes Xamax being relegated and Sion being docked a bunch of points). Average point total for 8th place team - 33.875 Average point total needed to be 8th place team - 32.375 What this means is that somewhere around 35 points should be good. with 31 games left Servette needs just over one point a match to end up with 35.
Alessandro Del Piero looks to be on his way to FC Sion. Ludovic Magnin has retired and will be a coach in the FC Zurich system.
There is no such team as the 'Southampton Saints'. I know the Premier League sold its soul many years ago, but it hasn't become that Americanised yet! LL
I came back from Switzerland last week and managed to squeeze in St.Gallen - GC during my stay there. First game I attended in quite some time. Was in the GC away sector and it's good to know the GC fan base is alive and well. They just don't like to go to the Letzigund. Great atmosphere. Maybe we will finally get our stadium this decade.
In that case I very much look forward to watching the Drug Dealers of Manchester v the Murderers of Liverpool! LL
Sion - FCSG should be a good one. Basel - Zurich should be another one worth watching. September 1 19:45 Lausanne Sports ? - ? Grasshoppers 19:45 Sion ? - ? St. Gallen September 2 13:45 Lucerne ? - ? Young Boys Bern 13:45 Thun ? - ? Servette 16:00 Basel ? - ? Zurich
St.Gallen and GC won again and are the leaders now - looks like they won't have anything to do with relegation this season that leaves us with Servette and Lausanne and maybe Thun... Hope Servette can clinch a victory in Thun tomorrow Basel could close the gap to Sion tomorrow
I would assume that Sion gets hit with a big fine or closed door match. A flare was thrown at the FCSG keeper and came within a few feet of him.
Typically offensive remark from a Servette fan. Kiss of death for GC, Challenge League looming?!? Hopp GC.
September 1 FT Lausanne Sports 0 - 2 Grasshoppers FT Sion 0 - 3 St. Gallen September 2 FT Lucerne 1 - 2 Young Boys Bern FT Thun 3 - 0 Servette FT Basel 0 - 0 Zurich Servette is really playing poor right now. They need a massive change in a lot of things to stay up this season. The only consolation is that LS is not playing that great right now as well. 1. FCSG 18 2. GCZ 17 3. FC Sion 16 4. FC Basel 13 5. YB 12 6. Thun 10 7. FC Zurich 9 8. FC Luzern 6 9. LS 5 10. Servette 2 On the other side of the table, FCSG and GCZ are playing very well right now. GCZ has totally changed their position from last season. They are only 9 points away from what they had all season last year. I think that Basel will eventually get it going, but they have given FCSG, GCZ and Sion a head start. It should be interesting.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/soccer-sion-name-fifth-coach-two-years-114029455--sow.html Sebastien Fournier quit Sion and they have named Michael Decastel. Fournier resigned on Monday after he was reprimanded by the club for publicly accusing three players of spending a night on the town before a league match. A furious Fournier had identified the players immediately after Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by St Gallen. This makes 26 coaches since 2003.
It will not be Michel Pont, the Assistant Swiss Men's National Team coach and native of Geneve. The top 5 canidates appear to be: Sébastien Fournier Michel Pont - has already said no. Marco Schällibaum Martin Andermatt Pablo Iglesias - Works for ASF, is the Technical Director for the Canton of Vaud, as well as an assistant for the M18 Swiss National Team. Two who are not being mentioned due to their high salaries are Christian Gross and Ciriaco Sforza.
According to the Tribune de Geneve Iglesias is the one who is the leading candidate. He wants the job, but does not want to leave the M18 team high and dry. Fournier seems to be candidate number 2. I think that Pont was the preferred candidate, but he is insistent that he will not leave the Swiss National Team anytime soon.