He didn’t want to be able to classify his emotional world on this cold, wet Sunday evening. It is a strange feeling that the home match against YB triggers him. “Somewhere between fantastic and bad,” said Fabio Celestini.
Fantastic because “my team played creatively and offensively with the ball against the best team in the league and also impressed with the second balls”.
Bad because the Lucerne with catastrophic mistakes, which led to two of the three goals conceded within nine minutes, brought themselves to a reward (Zentralplus reported).
Half of the FCL field players insufficient
At some point in retrospect, Fabio Celestini coined the sentence: “We didn’t get the performance of all of our eleven players on the pitch.”
With this he gave a clear indication of where the hare was. Alex Carbonell, Varol Tasar, Silvan Sidler, Lucas Alves and Filip Ugrinic ranked in the weak to unsatisfactory category.
“We had a problem against YB when we took on responsibility.”
FCL-Trainer Fabio Celestini
Carbonell was the worst man on the court. With his wrong decisions before the first two goals, the 23-year-old Catalan was at the origin of the fifth defeat of the season. An inferior performance by the FCL newcomer.
Drowned in Celestini’s favor
The fact that Fabio Celestini left the defensive midfielder in the dressing room during the break was an important signal for the teammates. In the sense that the transfer request does not receive any special treatment from him.
Without naming a name, Celestini criticized: «We had a problem with taking responsibility against YB. It cannot be that we simply hand the ball over to the opponent without him having to do something about it. “
Translated this means: In the favor of Celestini, Carbonell seems to have lost a few places, at least temporarily. It was the FCL coach’s explicit wish in the summer to make this transfer.
Only Carbonell’s premiere was strong
Even if there was no need for it even after Idriz Voca’s departure to Turkey. With Marvin Schulz, Tsiy Ndenge, Lorik Emini, Filip Ugrinic and Simon Grether, the FCL still had five players in the squad who can play in defensive midfield. Only after Ndenge, Emini and Grether were injured, there was a short-term personnel shortage.
“Such stupid mistakes as we have made simply mustn’t happen.”
FCL service provider Marvin Schulz
So far, the transfer of Carbonell has not paid off for Celestini’s team. In six out of seven games since his arrival in Lucerne, the Spaniard, who interprets his role in an extremely defensive manner, has played from the start.
Only in his premiere against St. Gallen (2: 2) was he strong, in the second win of the season against Sion (2: 0) he was passable, otherwise with his rather high error rate, he was a constant threat to his own goal. Against Vaduz, Carbonell provided a weighty reason for the later 1-1 with his traffic light card at the beginning of the second half.
Schulz is currently shaping the FCL
In his current condition he disturbs the team’s balance. And the newly formed FCL with its playful orientation had to work hard for itself in the last few weeks. Only in the previous games against Servette (3: 1) and Sion (2: 0) was the performance enough to win.
Instead of continuing the good run against YB, it again put off a mental damper. “Such stupid mistakes as we made simply mustn’t happen,” said Marvin Schulz, despite the chase to make it 2: 3.
The German has been the mainstay of the FCL for weeks, whether as a right-back and center-back or, as recently as a defensive midfielder. Together with Martin Frydek, Schulz made the best figure in the Lucerne ranks against YB, not only because of his successful penalty attempt to make it 1: 3.
Celestini has no choice
Schulz and Frydek are currently able to stabilize the FCL defensive and simultaneously serve the offensive with inputs. They are decisive for the balance in the game of Lucerne And right at the front, Louis Schaub and Dejan Sorgic seem to ensure more and more penetration.
At the beginning of next week, young star Lorik Emini will be able to return to FCL team training after recovering from an injury. This means that Fabio Celestini is no longer necessarily dependent on the services of Alex Carbonell in a system with two defensive midfielders.
When asked by Zentralplus whether Carbonell urgently needed a pause to think, Fabio Celestini did not shrug his shoulders for the first time on this frosty Sunday evening and said: “We will see.”
He has no other choice if he does not want to override the performance principle, the greatest asset in top-class sport, at the FCL.
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