Severin Ottiger

Right Back - Luzern
14 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Severin Ottiger

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The Luzern Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Eray Cömert wins it after the whistle should have gone

90 minutes played. Eray Cömert found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Lugano went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Match

Luzern come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of FCSB. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

Tempers go at Luzern

Leonardo Bertone was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Matteo di Giusto runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Luzern find a way past Lugano

Lugano made Luzern work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Lars Villiger

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Eray Cömert in the eights

A performance of 8.62 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Adrian Grbić could have had three

7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief