Visp — Sierre HC, Club Friendly

Visp and Sierre met in a club friendly on Thursday evening, with the visitors taking a 3-2 victory. The match took place on 2026-09-11 at 17:45, a fixture that offered little more than a chance to test muscles ahead of the season proper. By then, both sides had been through the motions of pre-season already. Visp came into the evening having won their last five friendlies in a row. They beat Chamonix Mont-Blanc 6-2, saw off Concordia 3-2, and followed that with victories over Ambri-Piotta, La Chaux-de-Fonds, and Ticino Rockets. To be fair, the run of results suggested a side finding its rhythm, even if the opposition varied in quality. Sierre's recent form told a different story. They had won three of their last five, including a 5-3 victory over Ticino Rockets and a 5-4 win against Chamonix Mont-Blanc. But they also lost 3-4 to Chamonix and 3-4 to Olten, so there was a certain unevenness to their preparation. And here's the thing about friendlies — you can't read too much into a single result. What the match produced was a narrow away win for Sierre, but the scoreline barely captures the nature of a game that meant little beyond the players' own assessment. Visp's five-game winning streak came to an end, though in a friendly that hardly alters the landscape. Sierre took something from the evening, but not much more than that.