Champions YB lose 2-1 to newly-promoted Sion at the start of the season, making life difficult for themselves with a sending-off in the 59th minute. Chouaref scores the final goal with a dream strike.
Ilyas Chouaref scored from an acute angle after a counter-attack in the 66th minute to make it 2:1. The 23-year-old Frenchman, always dangerous with his dribbling and acceleration, gave FC Sion the perfect start to the new season after a one-year interlude in the Challenge League. For the first time since the top division was called the Super League, Sion won away against YB. Since their last success in the championship in Bern in August 1996, they had suffered 36 defeats in 42 league games.
Dominant YB until the sending off
FC Sion's success, which can be described as an exploit in view of the statistics, was not stolen. Didier Tholot's team played their game and always looked for a playful solution under pressure, even after the early 0:1 through Silvère Ganvoula's goal (16'). Dejan Djokic, who had arrived from Vaduz, equalized before the break with a follow-up shot after a less than ideal save by goalkeeper David von Ballmoos.
YB were dominant on Patrick Rahmen's debut on the bench and were initially much closer to a 2-1 lead after the break. Filip Ugrinic hit the post with a free kick in the 56th minute. But the Bernese were playing somewhat naively. They allowed themselves to be surprised twice by counter-attacks, the first time in the 60th minute when Jaouen Hadjam had to stop Sion's rapid attack at the cost of a second yellow card, and then six minutes later when Chouaref was unstoppable.
YB face tough tasks ahead
Even though the last home defeat in the championship against Sion was a long time ago, YB cannot claim to have been taken by surprise by the Valais side. It was only in February that the champions were defeated in the Cup quarter-finals away from home by Sion, whose personnel had hardly changed since then. After the 2-1 defeat, the favorites, for all their obvious efforts, came up with surprisingly few creative ideas to at least get a point.
Bern's defeat at the start of the season is not yet a disaster, but increases the pressure ahead of the upcoming tasks: YB play away against Servette on Wednesday and against St. Gallen on Sunday.
Man of the Match
Ylyas Chouaref: He scored the decisive 2:1 and was also an invigorating element with his dribbles. He was also incredibly strong in the moments when the team switched quickly.
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Young Boys - Sion 1:2 (1:1)
28'366 spectators. - SR Dudic. - Goals: 16. Ganvoula (Monteiro) 1:0. 39. Djokic 1:1. 66. Chouaref (Berdayes) 1:2.
Young Boys: von Ballmoos; Blum (91. Rrudhani), Lauper, Husic, Hadjam; Monteiro (72. Males), Ugrinic, Chaiwa (72. Lakomy), Imeri (46. Itten); Elia, Ganvoula (68. Persson).
Sion: Fayulu; Lavanchy, Schmied (82. Sow), Diouf, Hefti; Berdayes, Kabacalman (68. Bua), Baltazar Costa, Bouchlarhem (87. Kronig); Djokic (68. Sorgic), Chouaref (82. Souza).
Remarks: 59th yellow card against Hadjam. Cautions: 23rd Hadjam, 31st Lavanchy, 32nd Husic, 34th Bouchlarhem, 92nd Ugrinic, 94th Fayulu, 96th Sorgic.
The ticker to watch and read
BSC Young Boys
FC Sion
- Silvère Ganvoula - 1:0 (16.)
- (39.) 1:1 - Dejan Djokic
- (66.) 1:2 - Ilyas Chouaref
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Liveticker
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Liveticker closed
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66.
Chouaref with the dream hammer
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59.
Hadjam picks up his second yellow card and is sent off
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56.
Ugrinic's free kick gets longer and longer and hits the post
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39.
Djokic scores the equalizer
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30.
Sion with the chance to equalize
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16.
Ganvoula scores
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13.
Elia with the first great chance
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0.
Barth Constantin: "Relegation has opened our eyes"
Sporting director Barth Constantin explains to blue Sport why FC Sion is now focusing more on local players and what goals he has set himself for the upcoming Super League season.
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What Rolf Fringer believes the promoted team Sion is capable of
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Rolf Fringer: "The title goes to YB"
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90.+7.End of 2nd half
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90.+6.Yellow card FC Sion
Dejan Sorgic
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90.+4.Yellow card FC Sion
Timothy Fayulu
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90.+2.Yellow card BSC Young Boys
Filip Ugrinic
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90.+2.Substitution in BSC Young Boys
Donat Rrudhani
Midfielder
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90.+2.Substitution out BSC Young Boys
Lewin Blum
Defender
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87.Substitution in FC Sion
Jan Kronig
Defender
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87.Substitution out FC Sion
Théo Bouchlarhem
Midfielder
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82.Substitution in FC Sion
Noé Sow
Defender
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82.Substitution out FC Sion
Joël Schmied
Defender
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82.Substitution in FC Sion
Cristian Souza
Midfielder
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82.Substitution out FC Sion
Ilyas Chouaref
Midfielder
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72.Substitution in BSC Young Boys
Darian Males
Striker
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72.Substitution out BSC Young Boys
Joël Monteiro
Midfielder
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72.Substitution in BSC Young Boys
Lukasz Lakomy
Midfielder
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72.Substitution out BSC Young Boys
Miguel Chaiwa
Midfielder
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68.Substitution in FC Sion
Kevin Bua
Midfielder
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68.Substitution out FC Sion
Ali Kabacalman
Midfielder
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68.Substitution in FC Sion
Dejan Sorgic
Striker
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68.Substitution out FC Sion
Dejan Djokic
Striker
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68.Substitution in BSC Young Boys
Noah Persson
Striker
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68.Substitution out BSC Young Boys
Silvère Ganvoula
Striker
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66.Goal for FC Sion, 1:2 through Ilyas Chouaref (Théo Berdayes)
Ilyas Chouaref
Midfielder
Assist: Théo Berdayes
Midfielder
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59.Red card BSC Young Boys (as a result of two yellow cards)
Jaouen Hadjam
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46.Substitution in BSC Young Boys
Cédric Itten
Striker
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46.Substitution out BSC Young Boys
Kastriot Imeri
Midfielder
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46.Kick-off 2nd half
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45.+2.End of 1st half
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39.Goal for FC Sion, 1:1 through Dejan Djokic
Dejan Djokic
Striker
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34.Yellow card FC Sion
Théo Bouchlarhem
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32.Yellow card BSC Young Boys
Anel Husic
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31.Yellow card FC Sion
Numa Lavanchy
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23.Yellow card BSC Young Boys
Jaouen Hadjam
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16.Goal for BSC Young Boys, 1:0 through Silvère Ganvoula (Joël Monteiro)
Silvère Ganvoula
Striker
Assist: Joël Monteiro
Midfielder
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1.Start of the match
