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At the empty Ghelamco Arena in Gent, the Viennese got off to a good start against the recently weak home side, but were ultimately not convincing enough with their chances. A few minutes before the break, Niklas Dorsch headed the disorder in the quick defense to take the lead (36th), 14 minutes after the restart, Roman Yaremtschuk scored a penalty after a foul by Leo Greiml (59th).
The most experienced Belgians took the victory in time without shining. Yusuf Demir scored 1: 2 (93), but Greiml couldn’t shake his mistake in the 95th minute and narrowly missed with a header. However, Rapid can console themselves with a place in the group stage of the Europa League (which starts on October 22, note), which is worth at least three million euros. Gent have five million euros more in the account, which will face Dynamo Kiev in the CL play-off. The Austrian champion of the Salzburg series is also represented in this.
Greiml leaves the chance to equalize (minute 95)
Chaos versus continuity before the game
The omens before the duel between the Belgian runner-up and his Austrian counterpart could not have been more different. While the Viennese came as outsiders, they found the new season very positive with three wins from three competitive matches. Gent, however, started disastrously with four defeats in five games, marking the end of manager Laszlo Bölöni’s short stint. The 67-year-old Romanian had to leave after just 25 days on Monday after a power struggle with the players.
His successor, Decker’s previous Kotrainer Wim, only changed the starting line-up by two positions from Bölöni’s last game. The MVP of the squad, Roman Yaremtschuk, returned to the starting lineup for the 2016 CL round of 16 after criticism as a coach. Rapid acted as the 1-0 win in the second round match at Lok Zagreb, compared to the 4-1 win over Admira. At the start of the Bundesliga, Kelvin Arase played in place of Yusuf Demir.
Good start for Rapid
“I want to see from the first minute that we want to take command,” Kühbauer said before the game, hoping to take advantage of the tense situation with the opponent. And his team stood firm, pissed off Gent from the start and got the first chance through Taxiarchis Fountas. The Greek’s shot outside the area was not a problem for Gent goalkeeper Davy Roef (2nd). The goalkeeper also proved his worth again when Maximilian Ullmann made a deal on the edge of the penalty area (6th).
Ullmann controls Roef (minute 6)
Gent struggled to get going at first, but Rapid unintentionally helped: after a poor pass from captain Dejan Ljubicic, Germany’s Under-21 player Dorsch also narrowly missed the goal from distance (8th) . More deals followed by Nurio Fortuna (15th) and Thomas Murg (17th), who after a 40-meter solo left the Rapid delegation to dream of 1-0, but again missed the goal too clearly.
The game continued to babble, both teams were too vague in their statements in the last third to create danger. Nor did the standards lead to the desired success, although Rapid played the home team on his cards with unnecessary fouls around sixteen. The duels were intense, Rapid was always looking for forward Ercan Kara, but he was well guarded by the Belgians and therefore could not develop or use his teammates.
Leadership from nowhere
After a free kick from Murg over the goal (32nd), Ghent took the lead from nowhere in the 36th minute: After a cross from substitute captain Sven Kums, the Rapids defense looked messy, Arase also let Dorsch shoot , and so the 22-year-old in the six-yard area with a massive header under the crossbar. Goalkeeper Richard Strebinger decided to stay in line and it wasn’t the last time the Gents goal anthem was played that night, which the Belgians share with Viennese Austria.
Dorsch puts Ghent ahead (minute 36)
The Rapid goalkeeper saved his team from a further deficit before the break as the advantage gave the Belgians, who had recently been restless, self-confidence. Yaremchuk found two chances (44 and 45 respectively), in the last minute of the first half Strebinger saved only in a duel with the Ukrainian forward. But his rival, Roef, could still stand out and converted a distant shot from Fountas over the crossbar (45 + 1).
Opportunities on both sides (minute 45)
Rapid came out of the locker room more courageously and seemed more determined early in the second half, which also created opportunities inside the penalty area. This made Kara more noticeable and she missed the area once from an acute angle (51º) and once from the center just (53º). But Gent announced a few minutes into the second half with a header from Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui (55th).
Grief brings a preliminary decision
A minute later, the Rapid disaster finally ran its course: Georgi Chakvetadze refueled to the right half in the penalty area and was brought down by defender Greiml. The 19-year-old had to pay tribute to his lack of international experience after slipping his leg into the rival without much noise. Yaremchuk took over, aimed for the center and hit Strebinger on the feet, from where the ball entered the goal (59th).
Yaremchuk adds penalty (minute 59)
With that the preliminary decision had been made, because Rapid couldn’t get in long afterward and was constantly rebounding off the defensive Gents. With Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe, the local team captain also made his comeback after a positive coronavirus test and gave the Belgians even more security. Kühbauer brought in Demir, who struck for the first time in the 82nd minute with a long shot, but only hit the far corner from about 18 meters in the 93rd minute. And the goal would not have come too late, as Greiml missed a header after a Ullmann cross in the 95th minute.
Demir scored late (minute 93)
Voices for the game:
Dietmar Kühbauer (Quick coach): “Of course the disappointment is great. I think it was not necessarily the best team that won today, but the happiest. The assessment of the possibilities did not work well today. Otherwise, I can’t blame my team. “
Leave Ljubicic (Rapid captain): “You have to say we were the best team. We started well, but then we had a 15-20 minute phase where we weren’t aggressive enough and close to the man. Ghent was better there. But after that we had better chances and today we have to win. “
Champions League, third qualifying round
Tuesday:
KAA Gent – Rapid Wien 2: 1 (1: 0)
Ghent, Ghelamco Arena, SR Ekberg (SWE)
Tore:
1: 0 Dorsch (36.)
2: 0 Jaremtschuk (59./Elfmeter)
Iron 2: 1 (90. + 3)
Yellow cards: none or Hoffmann, Arase, Fountas, Demir
Gentleman: Roef – Castro-Montes, Arslanagic, Ngadeu-Ngadjui, Fortuna – Kums, Owusu, Dorsch (64./Odjidja-Ofoe) – Jaremtschuk (89./Kleindienst), Depoitre, Chakvetadze (60./Besus)
Quick: Strebinger – Stojkovic, Hofmann, Greiml – Arase (73./Demir), D. Ljubicic (86./Kitagawa), Petrovic (86./Grahovac), Ullmann – Murg, Fountas – Kara
Gent is in the play-off of the Champions League qualification (rival Dynamo Kiev, game dates 22/23 and 29/30 September), Rapid plays in the group stage of the Europa League (draw on October 2 , starts from 22. October)
