Captain David Alaba celebrated his 29th birthday in Seefeld on Thursday. Perhaps that is why the ÖFB spared him an appearance at the Zoom press conference, the best gifts are sometimes free. Alaba can buy everything itself anyway. He didn’t have to pay anything for the cake. A European Championship round of 16 draws from the full, Marko Arnautović and Christoph Baumgartner were excellent alternatives. The second named, the gold scorer for the 1-0 win against Ukraine, spoke the beautiful sentence with regard to the meeting with Italy on Saturday at the legendary Wembley: “The adrenaline will splash out of our ears.”
