First victory for Admira, Austria defeated the “rivals of fear” Tirol – football –

St. Pölten temporarily climbed to second in the table behind leader Salzburg, but the champions, like their pursuers Rapid and LASK, will only be in action on Sunday. Austria improved to fifth place, Admira jumped to seventh place.

Admiraner got off to a dream start with newly signed former Rapidler Stephan Auer in front of 1,015 spectators. With an ideal center from Tomic, Rieds Manuel Kerhe picked up the offside and Maximilian Breunig (5th), who was completely alone, headed to the far corner. In the 23rd minute, Ried goalkeeper Samuel Sahin-Radlinger dropped Erwin Hoffer, who pushed his way into the box, and Roman Kerschbaum (23) scored with confidence from the penalty spot. The Upper Austria, with whom coach Gerald Baumgartner traded twice in the 34th minute and also switched to four behind, were not present on offense.

That changed right after the reboot, although luck was part of that. After a duel between Kerschbaum and Ried forward Bernd Gschweidl, referee Julian Weinberger decided a penalty. A slight offside by Gschweidl went unpunished. Marco Grüll (49th) did not miss the opportunity. Otherwise, the Rieders were once again unbeatable in terms of safety. The Admirans, on the other hand, were rewarded for a performance that was significantly improved in terms of gameplay compared to appearances from the first season.

In an almost own goal by Meisl (65th), the third goal for the local team was still missing. A minute later, the ball landed in the net. Goalkeeper Sahin-Radlinger directed a direct corner kick from Tomislav Tomic (66th) on a defensive attempt.

Austria’s game got boring. The initial phase was a careful palpation, both offensive ranks couldn’t get into the spotlight at all, at halftime there were two (harmless) shots on target.

But the first moments after the break were already turbulent. First, Austria took the lead with a curious goal: WSG goalkeeper Ferdinand Oswald defended himself from an overhead shot from Christoph Monschein, Fabian Koch shot Patrick Wimmer (46th) during the clearing action, causing the The ball enters the goal from the lower edge of the crossbar. The fifth was Austria’s first goal of the season out of the game.

On the other hand, goalkeeper Patrick Pentz was there against Raffael Behounek (48th) and against Zlatko Dedic (50th). A violent shot from Koch hissed at the outside net (61st). And while Austria’s playful performance remained manageable, Pentz did his best: the goalkeeper repaired Erik Palmer-Brown’s fumble with a strong reflex against Kelvin Yeboah (68th).

Although the possible change of course in the game did not materialize, Austria made the decision on the counterattack. Manprit Sarkaria (75th) made it 2-0 after a double with Wimmer, but from a tight offside position. The striker also benefited from his slip at the end, because that gave the ball an unorthodox trajectory and left Oswald with no defense. The Tyrolese did not recover from this low blow.

In Game 3 on Saturday, WA conceded its third loss in Game 4 of the season. The match started with more possession for the Carinthians, who went on the counterattack in the eleventh minute. Daniel Schütz was brought down by Sven Sprangler and Dor Hugi took advantage of the penalty (eleventh).

The tie was already established four minutes later. SKN goalkeeper Christoph Riegler threw a cross from Christopher Wernitznig, Dejan Joveljic only had to head from a short distance. Hugi made a great appearance in the 22nd minute: the Israeli made Dominik Baumgartner and Wernitznig look bad and succeeded with a remarkable shot in the far corner.

A little later, the offensive player was replaced by a cut to the ankle, but his substitute also proved to be successful: Lukas Grozurek (37th) headed a cross from Peter Pokorny. The Wolfsbergers, who were disappointing in the first half, came out of the booth as if they had transformed and cut back in the 48th minute. After a successful combination across multiple stations and a final pass from Michael Liendl, Joveljic pressed.

After that there was an urgent phase of the local population with partially torrential rain, but this did not bring anything. After a good hour, St. Pölten caught up with him and almost made the preliminary decision in the 66th minute, but Jonathan Scherzer blocked a shot from Grozurek off the line. Until the final whistle, the WAC was only dangerous with a header from Mario Leitgeb, who barely missed the goal (77), and conceded the fourth goal of a counterattack in the 93rd by Christoph Halper after excellent preparatory work by Robert Ljubicic. .