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Bundesliga: Lustenau turns 0-1 into a thumping victory

Dario Tadic gave Hartberger the lead in the eighth minute with a penalty in front of 3,723 spectators, but shortly before the break the Lustenau team got lucky with a double from Bryan Teixeira (41′) and Anderson (44′). . Lukas Fridrikas (67′) and in stoppage time Michael Cheukoua (90′ + 2′) made things clear.

With their second win of the season in their fourth game, Lustenau moved past Rapid to fourth place. The Vorarlbergers are three points behind leaders LASK, defending champions Salzburg and Sturm are two points and one point ahead of the promoted team. The Hartbergers, on the other hand, suffered their second defeat in a row and are tenth only two points ahead of bottom Austria, who started the season with three minus points.

Lustenau turns 0:1 into a victory

Newly promoted Austria Lustenau has moved into the top field in the fourth round of the Admiral Bundesliga. Vorarlberg moved into the top four on Sunday with a 4-1 win over TSV Egger Glas Hartberg.

Hartberg starts ambush-like

After a home win of the Lustenauer – certainly not in this amount – it did not look in the Reichshofstadion at first. Because the league newcomer – new in midfield with Torben Rhein – started the game extremely badly. Hartberg got the first corner kick after just a few seconds, Tadic’s header wrested Domenik Schierl from a flight.

The guests, who had made three changes after the 2-0 loss to Salzburg, stayed on the trigger. Jürgen Heil dug into the penalty area, Lustenau’s Jean Hugonet hit the Styrian’s ankle while trying to clear. Referee Manuel Schüttelgruber went to the screen after VAR intervention and awarded the penalty. Tadic scored sharply over Schierl’s fingertips (8′).

Game tilts before the break

In the first quarter of an hour, coach Klaus Schmidt’s team could have done better, but Heil shot too centrally to Schierl (12′). The game then splashed along with advantages for the Hartbergers. The promoted team didn’t arrive at all for 40 minutes on the offensive. The first two shots on goal then sat, with the Hartberger helping a lot.

First, Teixeira escaped opponent Patrick Farkas after a hole pass from Stefano Surdanovic and duped TSV goalie Rene Swete with a shot into the near corner. Then France’s Teixeira went unchallenged on the goal-line and found Anderson, who had no trouble with a header from close range. In a turbulent phase before the change of sides, Hartberg even had the chance to equalize, but attacker Mario Kröpfl missed a clear volley from twelve meters.

Hot second half

In the five minutes after the break it could have been 3:1 or 2:2. At first Anderson fired too centrally at Swete, then the ball was already in Lustenau’s goal after a corner kick: In the scramble in front of it, however, Schüttengruber saw a foul play by the alleged goalscorer Albert Ejupi on Surdanovic.

After an hour, the game got heated. Hartberg had to take more risks and ran into the decisive counterattack. Anderson left opponent Kofler on the right, and Fridrikas, who had just come on as a substitute, converted the Brazilian’s cross. Hartberg then tried vehemently to force the goal. However, Seth Paintsil missed the possible 2:3 in the 90th minute. A minute later Cheukoua got the final score.

Comments on the game:

Marcus Mader (Lustenau coach): “The course of the game clearly spoke in Hartberg’s favour, we were completely off the mark and didn’t have a chance. Then these two beautiful goals happen, and that sent a jolt through the team. In the end we win 4:1, although the first half didn’t look like it. Normally we have to be 1-0 down after the first minute. We have to analyze why it didn’t work at all. The mentality fits 100 percent. Even though we weren’t in the game, we tried. It then needs a can opener to create that jolt.”

Klaus Schmidt (Hartberg coach): “We played an excellent 45 minutes and brought a dead man back to life. Out of nowhere we go into the break 1:2 and present ourselves inferiorly in the last half hour. You can’t play Bundesliga like that. We don’t take advantage of the opportunities up front and actually have the opponent under control. Then we throw all resolutions overboard, you can’t survive in Lustenau like that.”

Regarding the given foul before the supposed 2: 2: “It was a small child foul. Then things might turn out differently. But we didn’t present ourselves as if we could turn the game around either.”

Admiral Bundesliga, fourth round

Sunday:

Austria Lustenau – Hartberg 4: 1 (2: 1)

Lustenau, Reichshofstadion, 3.723, SR Schüttengruber

Tore:
0:1 Tadic (8./Foulelfmeter)
1:1 Teixeira (41.)
2:1 Anderson (44.)
3:1 Fridrikas (67.)
4:1 Cheukoua (90.+2)

Lustenau: Schierl – Gmeiner (59. Fridrikas), Maak, Hugonet, Guenouche (90. Berger) – Rhein (59. Turkmen), Engravers – Anderson, Surdanovic (90. Adriel), Teixeira – Schmid (68. Cheukoua)

Hartberg: Swete – Farkas, Steinwender, Horvat, Kofler (Klem 80) – Ejupi (Fadinger 59) – Kainz, Aydin, Heil – Kröpfl (Sturm 70), Tadic (Paintsil 70)

Yellow cards: Teixeira, Surdanovic, Fridrikas and Ejupi, Swete

The best: Surdanovic, Anderson, Teixeira and Horvat, Heil

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