There were chances and goals galore on Thursday in Lausanne.
Pascal Muller/freshfocus
What an end to the match! Lausanne-Sport thought they would lose or win everything at least ten times in the final quarter of an hour of their crazy duel against Saint-Gall. His final loot is made of one point. That of a 3-3 gone in all directions.
This time, Ludovic Magnin took the lead. Undoubtedly disturbed, like the club’s supporters, by LS’s difficulties in aligning two halves of equal value, the Lausanne coach made two changes at the break. That doesn’t necessarily sound like him. But the maneuver proved rather successful. It was perhaps also a question of reacting, knowing that Saint-Gall had returned to the locker room with a goal in advance (1-2).
As long as he lets himself dream a little, Lausanne could still imagine joining the top 6 by the time the Super League splits. His start to the match brought him back down to earth. Two shots in the side net, two goals. Then this luminous inspiration from Noë Dussenne to soften the observation. What was the Lausanne central defender doing in the middle of the opposing area in the 34th minute, 40 meters from the rest of the defense? We still don’t know anything about it. But it was the place where you had to be to register the 1-2.
The LS rewarded
Saint-Gall killed the Vaudois revolt “intelligently”, as they say. The Brodeurs tried to take a good minute to play each of their set plays at the end of the first half. They used almost the same stratagem during the recovery. Was he going to turn against them? Yes! But in two stages.
Lausanne equalized, thanks to a blocked shot from Donat Rrudhani (78th). But then he was quite inexplicably surprised when Jovan Milosevic slipped into his area (80th, 2-3). Here again, the disappointment did not have time to last. Kaly Sène obtained a penalty, Rrudhani transformed it (3-3, 86th). Lausanne pulled away, he was rewarded. Partially.
Lausanne-Sport – Saint-Gall 3-3 (1-2)
La Tuilière, 7,160 spectators. Referee: Luca Piccolo.
Buts: 7th Akolo 0-1; 24th Quintilla 0-2; 34th Dussenne 1-2; 78e Rrudhani 2-2; 80th Milosevic 2-3; 86e Rrudhani 3-3.
LS: Letica; Giger, Dussenne, Creation, Poaty; Custodius (46th Roche), Pafundi (46th Sanches), Bernede (72nd Labeau); Rrudhani (91st Kablan), Seine, Diabate (72nd Ilie). Coach: Ludovic Magnin.
Saint Gall: Zigi; Sutter, Stanic (67e Diaby), Vallci, Schmidt; Quintilla (54th Okoroji), Stevanovic, Witzig, Ruiz (67th Toma); Akolo (67th Milosevic), Geubbels. Coach: Peter Zeidler.
Warnings: Pafundi (19th), Giger (58th).