Basel is experiencing the worst start to the season in league history, mainly because the team has not been able to score in Switzerland – the team has scored just two goals in four games, so it ranks eighth in ten teams. The club’s legend, Erne Maesen – who cemented Basel as a player for a total of 13 years and won two league titles – didn’t break into words about the performance and lashed out at players, including Odam Salai.
The nau.ch as csakfoci.hu Although Basel had an overwhelming advantage at home against Lugano on Sunday, the Reds and Blues failed to score this time as well, leaving them without a point after Lugano’s two goals in extra time.
Regardless, Maesen finds that while Basel “has a lot of good players,” in terms of its style “they’re almost all the same.” If there is space, they can assert themselves excellently, but if the situation is cramped, they take advantage of the situation.
“Slowly we can see that this is simply not enough,” the club legend said harshly of Odam Salai, who said that if someone was “slow and tough as they are,” they couldn’t be successful in the Swiss first division. The solution might be if it’s “in the right place at the right time, but it’s not doing it either”. According to Meissen, it would have been better to sign another “big player” but Bayern now “must make do with what they have”.
Opening photo: MTI/EPA/Keystone/Georgios Kefalas
