The weeks follow each other and look alike on the side of FC Basel, which is on seven success in a row. The Rhénans scored five goals on Saturday evening for the third meeting in a row by winning 5-2 on the lawn of Lugano. While the score was 1-1, the players of Fabio Celestini then evolved with a man less for more than a half after the expulsion of Ajeti (42nd).
But on the return from the locker room, Xherdan Shaqiri demonstrated that he is the undeniable best player in the country. In nine minutes, between the 48th and the 57th, “XS” scored three goals! He started, full axis, with a strike of the left foot wrapped in the small opposing net, then a brilliant lobed inspiration after a recovery in front of the surface, before making the “Hat-Trick” on a limpid shot at six meters. So that makes a goal or an assist in the last eight games for the “Shaq”, author of 18 goals and 20 assists in 31 Super League matches. This man must absolutely return to the Swiss team.
Here is the Basel FC 12 points ahead of Servette, when he has three games still to play. If the Genevans do not beat Young Boys in La Praille on Sunday, the FCB will officially win its 21st title of Swiss champion, the first since 2017. But to see Shaqiri and company celebrating with the Basel public in the stands in Lugano, the celebrations have already started.
