Sunday 21 July 2013

Swiss Derby

The two best teams in last year's Super League.

And the best two teams in the history of professional Swiss club football:

FC Basel and Grasshopper Zurich.

Basel won the title last year, and the last four in a row, actually. But Grasshopper leads in terms of titles, 19 over Basel's 16. (The last time Grasshopper won the title, though, was in 2002-2003. And FC Basel has won 7 since then.)

So, while other European leagues haven't even started yet, Swiss league fans are enjoying a huge derby already.

It's still very early in the season to tell, but probably Basel should be reasonably satisfied with the 1-1 draw. Maybe even more so because they went ahead, in the 21st minute, following a corner, courtesy of Fabian Schar.

Izet Hajrovic, top goalscorer in the league right now, with 3 goals scored already, made it 1-1. It was a spectacular effort.

Both Grasshopper Zurich and FC Basel drop to second in the table, two points behind early pacesetters Young Boys Bern.

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