In any case, “go for it” is the motto of the LASK players for the upcoming task. “Against these top stars – we have nothing to lose. We’re really looking forward to this game,” said Elias Havel. The 20-year-old decided the game in Klagenfurt with his second goal of the season to make it 3-0 shortly before half-time.
The Klagenfurt team, who had previously been unbeaten, made life difficult for themselves and were severely punished for their mistakes. “We were on the move at the start of the game. But then we get three goals from three and a half shots on goal,” said Christopher Cvetko, who was one of the better Austria players.
LASK celebrates 3-1 win against Klagenfurt
LASK succeeds in the dress rehearsal for the Europa League home game against Liverpool. Thomas Sageder’s team celebrated a 3-1 win at Austria Klagenfurt and inflicted their first defeat of the season on the Carinthians.
Successful system conversion
Not everything seems to be shining at LASK yet, as the arduous entry into the Europa League over Zrinjski Mostar (2:1, 1:1) showed. However, the cogs are becoming more effective week by week. Coach Thomas Sageder has moved away from the 4-2-3-1, the 3-4-3 with Robert Zulj as the central inspiration in the attack looks more and more stable. “You can see that the system takes effect very slowly,” said Florian Flecker. The winger made it 2-0 after Marin Ljubicic took the lead. Both times Zulj starred as the threader.
The captain himself spoke of a “very mature performance” from his team. While Sageder had tried to ignore the topic of Liverpool during the week, the 31-year-old was now able to look ahead to the game. “It’s the game of the year for every player, every employee of the club and every fan. Of course we want to give it our all and see what comes out,” said Zulj. Sageder wanted to get his team in the mood for Thursday on the bus ride to Linz. “Everyone knows Liverpool, everyone knows they are a top team. But we are not afraid. We will do everything we can to challenge them properly,” he said.
His counterpart Peter Pacult was a little depressed after his team’s first defeat of the season. The momentous eight minutes before the break took its toll on the Viennese. “They have put together a lot of what we have worked on in the last few weeks,” said Pacult. LASK took advantage of their team’s mistakes in an ice-cold manner. “But we showed a reaction in the second half, and that was important.”
Blau-Weiß Linz “on a great path”
The second Linz club was only able to achieve partial success. Blue-White’s 1-1 draw against Altach could still be seen as positive, especially since four of the five points of the season were won from the last two games. “With five points we are now in a pretty good position,” said coach Gerald Scheiblehner. The “very satisfied” 46-year-old added that his team confirmed their 4-2 performance at WSG Tirol. And defensive player Tobias Koch added: “We now had opponents on equal terms and you can see that we can keep up. We are on a great path.”
Draw at Linz against Altach
In the seventh round, promoted team Blau-Weiß Linz drew 1-1 in the home game against Altach.
Scheiblehner did not speak well of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), who gave Altach’s lead goal from Atdhe Nuhiu (13th), which was initially disallowed due to offside, after a four-minute check. “If you hear all week that Altach is so poor and has six to seven VAR decisions against them, then at some point a decision has to be made for Altach. This is completely incomprehensible to me, a catastrophic decision,” explained Scheiblehner.
For the Altach team there was no reason for VAR criticism. Coach Joachim Standfest was not satisfied with his team’s performance. “I didn’t like the performance that much, we missed a lot of what we had done very well in the last few weeks,” said the 43-year-old. However, five points scored away from home should be classified as “good”. Nuhiu also described it as “good” that you take a point even if you don’t play very well.
2023-09-18 11:39:51
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