At Tourbillon, we changed trainers this winter – Ricardo Dionisio, a debauchery in Nyon, arrived in the extraordinary circumstances that nobody has forgotten – but Sion, he did not change. Everything is absolutely identical: the same doubts about a supposedly unexploited potential, the same gaps in defense, the same questions in attack, the same messy start to the match, the same elements (Djourou remained on the bench) and … the same errors . Of those who pay cash and who we usually do not get up, whether the coach is called Dionisio, Jürgen Klopp or Tartempion.
Like NE / Xamax on Saturday against Servette, Sion was never going to recover, despite a plethora of opportunities helping to heighten the frustration of his players, if they were truly dismayed.
Overly sterile domination
Absent at the start of a match prepared intensively for three weeks, the visitors, heads in the air as they have already proved to be at their expense, therefore committed two more blunders in Thun and that was enough for the red lantern, with a great outburst of energy and a found solidarity, this season picks a first victory in front of its public which makes cringe teeth until Neuchâtel, by relaunching the race against relegation completely.
If Marc Schneider is still stationed in the Oberland, Thun, unlike his host, has changed with the help of Leonardo Bertone (ex-YB), returned from his American adventure to impose his technical correctness. In the fridge of the Stockhorn Arena, only one team struggled like starvation, really “snatched” from each balloon as if its survival depended on it, and, unfortunately for its supporters who had moved massively, this was not Zion.
As far as the Valais club is concerned, as we said, nothing fundamentally new. More than the result, what we were also looking for was the way proposed, the quest for an embryo of style and identity for a team that until then had looked very little. So yes, Sion sometimes seduced, perhaps dominated, even very widely, Thun for more than an hour but never managed to find the fault more than once as evidenced … 16 shots off target (out of 20 attempts) . When a formation plays similarly its all-out, introducing its offensive cartridges one after the other, the tactical diagrams and the instructions stretch until being supplanted by a flow in which are found mixed, in unequal parts, precipitation, speed, obvious desire to do better, individual risk-taking and, let’s face it, sometimes bad luck. At that point in the game, we were very far from the initial game plan imagined by his new coach, screwed up after a few minutes already.
A new role for Toma
As far as what we are entitled to expect from Dionisio, whose recommended football is close to that of Peter Zeidler, at least in theory, it would be dangerous and otherwise very improper to draw lessons, if- they provisional. For his Super League debut, the former Colovray coach, not standing in place at the edge of the button where he spent more than some of his players, especially gestured and hopped a lot when he did not encourage the his. If some tracks are already emerging, such as giving Toma, in the position of new No 10, a more offensive role, Sion still does not really dream and especially, at this stage, does not seem to be able to create the essential a feat to which his ambition to raise a 14th Swiss Cup condemns him this spring.
More concretely exposed, while the coaches are parading, we have the unfortunate impression that we are constantly turning the problem around in all directions without any lasting solution appearing. Will the presence of Djourou alone be enough to solve the equation or the emergence of a “new” FC Sion necessarily requires new arrivals, more targeted, while there are two licenses to be allocated ?
So here is Ricardo Dionisio off to a bad start, when time is running out. For the peace of households, he who likes to compare the hectic life of a team to that of a married couple (and the vicissitudes that this implies …), it would be fashionable, and probably highly beneficial, offer his employer and the Valais public what to reconcile with FC Sion during the next visit of FC Zurich.
You never have a single chance to leave a good first impression, we assure. For Dionisio, who will return in the second week from Sunday, the time has come to lie the proverb. By creating the conditions for a necessary change. Not in words but in successful acts this time.
Created: 27.01.2020, 06:11
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