Young Boys II hosted Bâle II in the ninth round of the 1. Liga Promotion on Saturday, 26 September. The visitors closed out a 0:2 victory, taking their second away win of the campaign.
And here's the thing about matches like this — you watch for the moments that stick. The first one arrived at the thirty-minute mark when Y. Marchand found the net. A quiet opener, but it changed how the game sat. Bâle II stood taller after that, and Young Boys II had to chase.
By then, the visitors had already shown they weren't there to make up the numbers. They'd lost five of their eight previous fixtures without a single draw, but they know how to turn things around. The second goal came at sixty-nine through J. Bauer, and with it the result settled. Things came to a head in that spell, and Young Boys II simply didn't have the answer.
On the table, Bâle II sit ninth with twelve points from nine games. Three wins and a loss since the last round against Lugano II put them back in contention at the top end. Young Boys II remain eleventh on eleven points, one behind, but the gap feels narrower than it looks when you've just been beaten so cleanly.
To be fair, the recent run for the hosts has been patchy — a 2:2 draw with Amical St-Pré followed by a 2:1 win over Bavois, then a 4:2 victory against Bienne-Bienne. They'd looked capable of stringing results together before this afternoon. Instead, they fell short at the first hurdle.
We'd tipped a home win at forty-six per cent confidence. The prediction didn't hold. Bâle II simply took the game by the throat at the right moments and refused to let go.
