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Katzenjammer near Bern and high spirits in Ambri after the showdown in the regular season. For SCB manager Raeto Raffainer, the defeat is difficult to swallow.
After the abrupt end of the season on Monday evening, there was nothing to talk about in the SC Bern camp. That was clear to everyone. The protagonists judged themselves accordingly harshly. Warhorse Tristan Scherwey emphasized: “We just didn’t deserve it. Finished!”
The 30-year-old once again referred to the actually comfortable cushion that the “Mutzen” had had on the home stretch of the final sprint in the National League in direct comparison with Ambri. In the fight for 10th place and the last pre-playoff ticket, the Leventine are the winners.
To put it bluntly, we’ve gotten progressively worse over the last 4 years.
“We’re still alive,” said a jubilant Luca Cereda, the “Biancoblù” coach, from afar. And he immediately made the next declaration of war: “We will now do everything we can to make life in Lausanne as difficult as possible.”
Crash until you can’t go any further
Back in the camp of the losers: the sting of the Bernese captain Simon Moser was extremely deep. The game against Lausanne (1: 4) showed that “like the whole season, we are simply not consistent enough”. He saw a decent performance in the 2nd third. “The goals simply didn’t go in, but in the third section we acted far too openly again.”
Moser recapitulated: «To put it bluntly, we have continuously gotten worse over the past 4 years. We’ve hit rock bottom now, I hope so anyway. And the flight there was very bitter.”
Ambri and the little picture trick
Raeto Raffainer continued Moser’s impression. He, who has been the “Chief Sport Officer” since the beginning of 2021, spoke of 3 years in a row in which his team had a mixed to bad regular season. “Our fan base and organization simply didn’t deserve that.”
Since August he has experienced the work of the capital city as Knorz. “The fact that we would now excuse this with a lack of width and too many injuries is simply too cheap.” Raffainer didn’t want to look too far ahead. But he promised: “It is now my job to work through the whole thing.”
Another change of scene: In Ambri, Cereda exceptionally allows its protégés to toast to the stage finish after midnight. And Dario Bürgler knows the reason why it still “worked out perfectly” for him and his teammates. “We always kept the picture small. Our mindset was to win game after game.” Great is the merit.