Champions League: YB has a future

Some young players from YB will soon leave the club and start their own journey. (Image: Thomas Hodel / Keystone)

It was a team with significant absences, but the Swiss champions surprisingly hit Old Trafford, 73,115, the surprise at hand before Manchester United scored a goal late – 3: 3.

It was a team with significant absences, but the Swiss champions hit surprisingly well, 73,000 by Old Trafford, but the surprise came before Manchester United scored a goal late, 1-0.

The episodes date from 2011 and 2018, seven years ago, FC Basel was in Manchester, without regulars such as Benjamin Huggel, Xherdan Shaqiri and Valentin Stocker, but he narrowly missed the victory. On Tuesday, it was the Young Boys who missed a surprise.

A 0-0 would have been as honorable as a win for Basel seven years ago, since YB 2018 has less international experience than the 2011 FCB, and even more so if the team plays without its pillars, without Guillaume Hoarau (wounded), Sékou Sanogo (wounded). locked) and Steve von Bergen (down). The late goal was "symptomatic," said YB coach Gerardo Seoane after the match. "We did not reap what we deserved in this Champions League campaign."

Material for justifications

Seoane could have spoken to José Mourinho more than a half-time on the ingratitude of the football world. The manager of Manchester United feels misunderstood again and again; in public, he seems to know more than biting humor.

After the win and the round of 32, Mourinho turned to his "Lovers" and this word, "Lovers," he said, with so much mockery in his eyes and voice, that The irony would not have gone unnoticed by the people who were Mourinho. first time. Mourinho likes to see his "lovers" among unsuspecting journalists who do not judge what he is doing – or who do not judge him on what he did in the past but on the facts and facets of today: rank 7 in the Premier League, an extreme hit against Younghorns Greenhorns.

Mourinho could have said after all that he had defeated this Swiss underdog – unlike Alex Ferguson, who had stumbled with the UK on the FCB, 3: 3 at home, later at 1: 2. But the Mourinho's pride and career are too important for him to be justified by the lives of others. He played fourteen times in the Champions League and fourteen times in the group stage, Mourinho predicted. During the two years in which he participated in the Europa League (former UEFA Cup), he won the competition. just like a little curiosity for my lovers. "

More often "in such a stage"

This list again indicated what the YB and Seoane calibres had offered. Seoane praised the three central midfielders, Djibril Sow, Sandro Lauper and Michel Aebischer, aged under 22, but all "strong, technically strong, tactically intelligent". The biggest difference comes from the top clubs with a "complete physical presence," said Seoane, "players who can be" at this level in a few years ".

YB would have had good chances not to have hidden a tacit fact: it has more ambitious goals – but did not pursue them with Swiss teams. As soon after, Lauper said that a few cabins were moving away: there was "of course" the ambition to "do more and try to play in such a stadium every week to l & # 39; future. "

That's another fact in the industry: YB arrived at the last minute in a stadium such as Old Trafford – but players are still noticed, with some fearlessness, with their vintages, where Scouts still have the potential for development, so some players in the YB Champions League will sooner or later move abroad. Kevin Mbabu and Sow will probably be among the first, for a lot of money, after all. Lauper and Christian Fassnacht may also follow Roger Assalé and Mohamed Ali Camara. Not everyone will be attracted by the good addresses, but far from YB.

Of the eleven FCB players who were in the starting lineup in Manchester in 2011, three were in mid-2013 for the Basel team.