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Without goalkeeper Alexander Schlager (adductor problems) and Gernot Trauner (upset stomach) LASK had no chance and could thank rookie Tobias Lawal in goal that it was not a debacle.
Hütteldorfer celebrated a well-deserved 3-0 home win and are still two points behind defending champion and leader Red Bull Salzburg. Grün-Weiß secured second place with a three-point lead over SKN St. Pölten.
Ramsebner saw red
Thomas Murg (7th), Taxiarchis Fountas (22nd) and Ercan Kara (93rd) scored the goals for Rapidler, who was clearly superior over long distances and who won their fourth suite win against LASK. Linz, for his part, where Christian Ramsebner was excluded in the 66th minute, had to accept a hard setback after three wins in a row and an impressive 4-1 in the Europa League play-off at Sporting Lisbon and entered the seventh competition match. this season as a loser off the field for the first time.
This was probably also due to the fact that defense chief Gernot Trauner had to pass short-term due to a gastrointestinal infection. Instead, Philipp Wiesinger moved to the center of defense, with dire consequences. The defender made his first mistake in the sixth minute when Kara headed Murg forward. Following his cross pass to the center, Fountas missed 20-year-old goalkeeper Tobias Lawal, representing Alexander Schlager, who suffered from adductor problems, from close range and made his league debut.
Two Wiesinger mistakes
A few seconds later, the goalkeeper of the Nigerian neo team was defeated for the first time. Wiesinger misjudged a long pass from Mateo Barac, Kara used Fountas – the Greek dropped Murg, who only had to score from a short distance.
In the 22nd minute Wiesinger was unwell again, this time with a kickoff from Maximilian Hofmann. Fountas surpassed the 26-year-old on the ÖFB roster and defeated Lawal. Then the goalkeeper had to save with a shot from Murg (26th). LASK didn’t just show up on defense on paper, the Austrian Highs failed to score a single goal in the first half.
That changed early in the second half when Hussein tested Balic Rapids goalkeeper Richard Strebinger with a rather harmless long-range shot (48th). Kara’s rescue act in front of the line after a standard situation (53rd) was further proof that LASK made a raise without Wiesinger, who had stayed in the locker room during the break. But the Rapidler had their moments too: in the 61st minute, Ramsebner made a bad pass and Fountas tried a setter from the center line, which was barely defused by Lawal.
3-0 in the 93rd minute
Five minutes later, the Greek team player, team ÖFB opponent in Klagenfurt on Wednesday, was the center of attention again. After a brutal kick from Ramsebner to Fountas’ leg, the LASK defender saw the red card.
So the guests’ hopes of earning a point were finally over. Rapid came closer to 3-0 than LASK when he had chances from Kara (78th), Fountas (79th), Hofmann and Yusuf Demir (both 88th). In the 93rd minute, Kara did it from close range for the final point. Both teams now have a two-week international break before having three games each in the league and the Europa League, as well as a cup match on the program in just over three weeks.
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Siebenhandl instead of Schlager in the ÖFB team
Austria’s football team boss Franco Foda nominated Sturm Graz goalkeeper Jörg Siebenhandl for the ailing Alexander Schlager.
The LASK goalkeeper had canceled the next international matches against Greece (October 7), Northern Ireland (October 11) and Romania (October 14) due to adductor problems.
