Two draws and three losses: the record of Neuchâtel Xamax in its last five matches is meager. The “Rouge et Noir” club has indeed been lost on Saturday evening on the Bellinzone field by 3-1, in the football league challenge. He lost his second half after having delivered a rather encouraging first game. The score was 1-1 at the break: Shkelqim Demhasaj responded to the opening of the Ticino brand, equalizing in the 24th minute of play on a perfect pass from the remuneration Salim Ben Seghir, one of the best Xamaxians with Giovani Bamba. With six different holders compared to the previous meeting against FC Thoune, Neuchâtel Xamax displayed his desire to do well, also pressing his opponent on the ground. But after tea, the Ticino, however, showed the good Neuchâtel intentions, in the space of two minutes (70th and 72nd). Their second goal was tainted with a disputed action on the porter Edin Omeragic: “There was a lack of the goalkeeper, it was indisputable,” said Mickaël Facchinetti at the end of the game. “It cut us in our momentum. »»
In reality, it must be recognized that Bellinzone has stolen anything. The porter Edin Omeragic signed several decisive judgments and the addition could have been much heavier. His vis-à-vis, Simon Enzler, had no work to do in the second half, despite a sustained but ineffective pressing of the Xamaxiens at the end of the game. There are three games to play before the end of the exercise and they look like liquidation: “No, we must not take them like that. We always want to win. We already have the obligation to deliver a good performance in front of our audience and be proud, ”insists Mickaeël Facchinetti.
In the ranking, three days before the end, Neuchâtel Xamax remains seventh, but with more than one point ahead of his closest prosecutor, in this case Bellinzone. /MNE
