Three days after a 2-0 home defeat in Tourbillon, Sion rediscovered the opportunity to score goals, but the more aggressive pace was too much at the expense of a defense against which Lausanne-Ouchy played lightly more than three times.

The local club from Lausanne took the lead twice in the first 35 minutes, and Sion equalized twice before the break. Later, Uchis Lucas Pose headed the post and put Gaetan Karlen and Numa Lavanshi into first place in Sion thanks to strong saves from Dani Da Silva, before Teddy Okou danced across the box and Mulaj with his third strike in the 81st minute – Strich to 4: 2 put it all in place in favor of third in the Challenge League against last in the Super League.

Third climber from the canton of Vaud

After Yverdon and Lausanne-Sport, Lausanne-Ouchy is the third team from the Canton of Vaud to be promoted in the Super League, which has been expanded to twelve teams – unless Christian Constantine finds a Yverdon legal evasion that will be upheld in court . The President of Sion has announced that he will take legal action over Yverdon’s alleged deception in licensing the Swiss Football League. So far, the chances of success are assessed as low. According to modern lore, anything but the fall of Sion after 17 seasons in the top flight would have been a farce.

The protagonists in the underdog’s success story were undoubtedly Mulaj and Okou, who once again proved to be trump cards in the final stages. Moulay scored for the newly promoted team in the sixth minute after a wonderful passing pass from Okou before Luca Zuffi revived the sitteners’ hopes of staying in the league by equalizing after a good 20 minutes. A good ten minutes into the 1-1 draw, Alban Aidini scored his 14th goal of the season forward for the lower leagues thanks to a through pass from playmaker Mergim Curry, Sion equalized again shortly after converting Anto Grgic’s penalty after a foul on Giovanni. Sio.

While Lausanne-Ouchy coach Anthony Braza saw little reason to switch after a convincing performance in Sitten and only pulled a slightly injured Giovani Bamba from the starting XI in place of Ogou Akichi, Sion was looking for a major system overhaul and four personnel changes to the starting XI. .

Castling Zion in vain

To bolster the offensive after six one-goal losses at the end of the Superliga and 0–2 in the first leg, coach Paolo Tramezzani switched from back four to back three. Ahead, Sio and Carlen had double the lead in the storm. Grgić returned as captain after missing the first match due to illness. Mario Balotelli was again listed as injured as one of ten players, which now also includes Mount Diouf.

Tramezzani’s adjustments did not fail to affect the fact that Sion finally again created a great danger to the gate. However, this took a heavy toll on the stability of the defense, which was also put to the test by the replacement of defender Reto Ziegler due to an injury at half-time. Ziegler was replaced by 20-year-old Gilles Richard, who had previously played only two minutes in the Super League.