star Shaqiri, like 20 years old!

• FC Basel – FCSB is scheduled on Thursday, from 19:45, at “St. Jakob-Park”. Special reporters Remus Dinu and Cezar Titor are in Switzerland and provide the Gazeta readers with the most relevant information before the Europa League match.

A former teammate of Ciprian Marica at VfB Stuttgart, Ludovic Magnin took over the Swiss champions in June, replacing Fabio Celestini. The technician from Lausanne is on the most important experience of his career, after the adventures in Zurich, Rheindorf Altach and Lausanne-Sport.

before the match Magnin addressed the current situation of his team and praised the things observed in the champion of Romania, which he says cannot be underestimated.

Basel coach on guard: “We must not underestimate this team”

“We are favorites at home. That is our expectation and we must not hide. We want to advance to the next round.

To do that we should win these home games. But we'd better not underestimate this team. The team from Bucharest is a very good one and, once again, everything will come down to the small details.

We have noticed that he changes the team very often, from match to match to match, so it will not be easy for us to guess which players will start. But we know what system they use, what type of football they play. It's a team that has 6-7 footballers who also play for the national team”, said Magnin, who spoke in laudatory terms about Darius Olaru: “He has quality, he's an important player, we're waiting to see things from him”.

“We can also analyze it ourselves”, the Basel coach continued, when asked if he had requested information from the Young Boys regarding the match against FCSB a month ago.

Ludovic Magnin, coach of Basel / PHOTO: Guliver/Getty Images

“The fact that Young Boys have already played against our opponent is just an added note for us. Even though FCSB had possession against Young Boys, but YB were successful on the counter-attack, we want to control the game. We will not deviate from our tactics depending on that match“.

Magnin also revealed to the journalists present at the conference that Dominik Schimd and Albian Ajeti, slightly injured in the duel in Bern, with Young Boys (0-0), could not train with the team due to muscle problems.

“We're optimistic they'll be fit, but we're not taking any chances“, the Swiss technician pointed out.

Basel are in 24th place in their single Europa League group with 3 points from three games. The only victory of the Swiss came in early October, in the company of Stuttgart. FCSB is four positions lower, in 28th place, they have the same dowry of points.

Daniliuc, given an example in official training + what an aura Shaqiri has!

Two hours later, the “RotBlau” group held the official training in the “Sportanlage St. Jakob” complex, a separate base, located in the vicinity of the stadium that will host the match on Thursday evening. The same will not be the case for Florin Tănas&Co., who will take to the turf of the 37,500-seat stadium later this afternoon.

In the northern part of a huge training base, spread over whole hectares of flawless natural lawn, FC Basel held today the official training before the match with FCSB, in the Europa League, open to the media for 15 minutes.

During this interval, the team performed extremely intense exercises, in which the players gave 100%.

Flavius ​​Daniliuc was given an example in one of the exercises, The highly energetic Philip Otele was urged by the trainer to step up the pace and star Xherdan Shaqiri, 34, showed the same desire and appetite for the game as he did 15 years ago in his first spell here. You can feel the aura of a leader, both on and off the field.