The large defeat of the Swiss team against Portugal in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Doha did not leave the French-speaking press insensitive. This 6-1 is still difficult to pass.
“Portugal’s spanking is an abrupt comeback, we read in a commentary to “La Liberté”. “Not only does it open our eyes to the shortcomings of a team that we saw too quickly as beautiful, but, also and above all, to the shortcomings of Murat Yakin: a coach whose change of system for this round of 16 is a matter of the incomprehensible, annoyance, frustration“, continues the Friborg daily.
“Pride of the one who wants to be the smartest. Vanity of the bad demiurge. Yakin must not bear the brunt of the rout alone. After all, there was a team, players, executives on the field, all of whom sank“, analyzes the Tribune de Genève / 24 Hours.
Under the title “Portugal-Switzerland, the debacle of Doha”, “Le Temps” notes “only to present his Swiss team in 3-5-2, a system he has only recently worked in a friendly loss against Ghana“, continues the daily about Murat Yakin.
Murat Yakin, the loser for Le Matin
On the “Blick” website, we read “This defeat is without appeal. It punishes both the unfortunate tactical choices of Murat Yakin and individual failures that were not expected, especially those of the defenders.“
For the “Morning” site, “the loser is none other than Murat Yakin. It was he who chose to line up a 3-5-2, with Edimilson Fernandes replacing an ailing Silvan Widmer on the right side. The idea came to nothing. Worse, it destructured Switzerland, which spent the first period suffering the rhythm imposed by a technically fair Portugal.”.
On the “Watson” website, “The problem here is not losing a player for an important match, but becoming a small team when that happens. This is what Switzerland was like on Tuesday against Portugal, strolled for almost 90 minutes by the Portuguese who showed that they could be better without Cristiano Ronaldo, because their coach had taken someone (Gonçalo Ramos) to replace it.“
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