14 goals after 16 rounds is the Vienna team’s more than meager goal tally. That’s not enough for the championship group, and the Austria coach also knows that. “It bothers me personally because I’m someone who likes to play attacking football. I think we’re playing attacking football, but we’re missing a goal. It’s my job to give players more solutions. So, I have something to do.” We have to “bring more power back into the box”.
The German has six games until the points are divided and a winter break, especially since all speculation of an early departure to Kaiserslautern is now off the table. The fact that Austria has not yet lost touch with sixth place is mainly due to their good defensive work. “We are very good defensively, have a good remaining defense and hardly allow any counterattacks,” summed up Wimmer. That was also the case against LASK. The problems are on the other side of the field.
Cold zero number at Austria against LASK
In bitterly cold temperatures, Austria and LASK didn’t really warm up the 10,689 fans in Vienna’s favorites. The two teams played a goalless game in the Admiral Bundesliga on Sunday in a game with few chances.
Numerous failures at LASK
The fact that the temperatures in the stadium were below zero was probably no blessing for the guests from Linz either. The “Athletics” returned from the Europa League game in Liverpool (0:4) with an entire hospital, which resulted in numerous changes to the Upper Austrians’ starting line-up. Philipp Ziereis (thigh hardness) and Ivan Ljubic (adductors) should at least not be out for long.
However, Coach Thomas Sageder was more worried about a spreading infection. “Sascha Horvath fell ill overnight, developed a fever, nausea and a headache. Robert Zulj was already out on the bus ride here with the same symptoms. We let him get out and brought him home. I hope that this doesn’t spread even more because one or two of our coaching team also have sickly traits.”
Together with the club doctor, numerous precautionary measures were taken, such as separating the players into individual rooms, not shaking hands, and keeping their distance. “We have to approach the issue in a very disciplined manner. That was really very challenging for us, that you don’t know overnight who is still there. You have to organize that the squad is full again. I don’t need that every game,” explained Sageder, who had Elias Havel and Peter Michorl brought to Vienna. In view of these incidents, he gratefully accepted one point.
2023-12-04 13:11:12
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