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A high degree of continuity has found its way into Rapid. The Hütteldorfer win as regularly as they claim later to avoid thinking about the championship title. “We don’t look at the table, just from game to game and enjoy the moment“Said midfielder Marcel Ritzmaier on Tuesday after the 1-0 home win over WAC (match report + VIDEO summary). Coach Dietmar Kühbauer added: “Points are halved, we are not talking about title dreams.“
In view of the performance of his protégés, the coach’s announcement was understandable, because the performance of the Hütteldorfer was not really masterful despite the fifth consecutive victory. “It was definitely not our best game,” Kühbauer admitted. “But we are happy with all three points. We have not allowed a goal and few opportunities. “
Kühbauer: “We lacked freshness a bit”
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A negative surprise for the 49-year-old was the physical condition of his players. “We lacked freshness a bit, we were very static in our actions.Rapid’s pros recently enjoyed an eight-day break from the game, while WAC only had to go into extra time last Friday in the Cup against Kapfenberg. “There are such games. If you end up having a threesome, that’s fineKühbauer summed up.
His team was at the top of the table for at least a day ahead of Red Bull Salzburg. Rapid’s 36 points in the first 16 rounds are the best in club history since the 1995/96 season, when the plate was lifted at the end, with Kühbauer as the player.
25 years later, the Burgenlander acts as head coach, and that for a long time. Sport– CEO Zoran Barisic announced in an interview with Sky that negotiations on a contract extension would be soon and also said that Rieds Marco Grüll had already signed a preliminary contract with Rapid. The 22-year-old is finishing the current season at SV Ried.
Kara’s winning goal after Kofler’s “extreme pike”
Even without Grüll, Rapids’ offensive department is well positioned – after all, in the previous 27 competitive games this season, they have only failed to score twice. Against WAC, Ercan Kara was again the winner of the match, but with the active help of goalkeeper Alexander Kofler, who missed a relatively harmless shot from the striker. “I just hit it and it came inKara reported.
Matchwinner Kara: “I’m not a Mini-Zlatan”
Kofler on his mistake: “It may not happen to me, but sadly it happened to me”
Kofler later pleaded guilty to “Sky” and spoke of a “extreme pike. That seems stupid, of course, and it’s a clear mistake that unfortunately happened. That he was decisive in the game is doubly bitter.“
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WAC coach Ferdinand Feldhofer did not publicly reproach his goalkeeper. The door is “of a collective errorIt emerged, the Styrian explained. His club is in the Cup semi-finals and the European Cup round of 32, but he scored only five points in the five league games this year, did not score in four of them and still has to worry about participating in the championship group.
Feldhofer believes in the top 6: “We will make it”
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However, Feldhofer was very confident in this regard. “We’ll make it into the top six, I’m sure of that. It’s also clear that we can’t make it six rounds before the cutoff.“The former team player did not want to overestimate the recent drop in goals. “We create opportunities and we just have to seize them and reward ourselves.“
The next opportunity to do this is Saturday against Admira, the bottom of the table, five days after the Europa League duel with Tottenham in Klagenfurt. Rapid will continue on Saturday with the away game against the penultimate SCR Altach.
(APA) / Image: GEPA
