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When Salzburg’s Patson Daka fell in a 3-1 battle with Andrés Andrade against LASK, Salzburg coach Jesse Marsch demanded a red card from referee Harald Lechner. He responded to the LASK bank’s opposition with “Shut up!” The American was again friendly and relaxed after the final whistle.
A scene that made it clear how tense the master was in the upper game with the Linzers. An analysis of the coup:
Of the 48 teams in the Europa League group stage, LASK posted the most pressing attempts and Salzburg the second in the Champions League. Both teams demonstrated how to let the pressure roll: LASK made the crucial mistakes before conceding the first two goals.
Basically fast passes with few contacts are a means against pressure, because attacking players always have to reorient themselves and cannot gain access. It is best to play these passes over a wide area: with short passes, the pressing opponents are already close and can continue to exert pressure.
LASK tried to break free against the pressure with an intermediate stop in midfield, while Salzburg played a ball far behind the Blue and White defense at the first opportunity. This moved mainly towards the center line. That was risky against fast attackers from Salzburg, but necessary to further limit the home team’s room for maneuver by exempting pressure. And LASK celebrated partial successes: in case of a kick, the three forwards, mostly Peter Michorl, blocked the rear four points; after 30 minutes, Marsch called off the kick because LASK had caught the balls too often.
The game plan fit, the 1-0 through Johannes Eggestein fell after a perfect combination that Reinhold Ranftl had started – with a change of sides pass: The change of parties is always a good way to find free space, but on all against teams that are in an act of pressure: if there are many players near the ball to increase the pressure, everything opens further.
At 1: 1 at LASK, the defense went backwards: head of defense Gernot Trauner spat the ball away from Mergim Berisha, but right in front of the legs of Zlatko Junuzovic, who started the equalization with a dream pass. And the 1: 2 was practically scored by LASK himself – Salzburg’s counterattack was already slowed down, but then Philipp Wiesinger played the pass back to goalkeeper Alexander Schlager – the short pass against Salzburg pressure was not a good idea.
Approaching Patson Daka, Schlager had only one direction left for the pass and tried to play Reinhold Ranftl. It was not by chance that Mergim Berisha was exactly in the path of the pass and used the unwitting help of Schlager. “Where should I play?”, You could read from his lips immediately after 1: 2. “I have to shoot the ball,” was answered after the game. Because sometimes only the emergency exit helps against pressure: shoot the ball away.
Also read: Difficult lots for Salzburg and WAC in the Europa League
Article of
Günther Mayrhofer
Sports editor
