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“Our goal is to win and stay ahead of the table,” said Salzburg manager Jesse Marsch. The match in Wals-Siezenheim is the 23rd competitive match in 122 days for Salzburg. Compared to 6: 2 on Wednesday in the eighth Cup final against Rapid, no major personnel changes are expected. “We are not going to rotate much. Everyone is fit and ready, ”Marsch announced.
Dominik Szoboszlai, who moved to RB Leipzig in the winter, gives his farewell performance for Salzburg against WAC, while Zlatko Junuzovic will play his first match after the contract was extended until 2022. “We decided to show our true colors again. last week. We mastered the first two obstacles (note: LASK, Rapid) super, now comes the third. We will do everything possible to add up the three points, ”promised the 33-year-old former player.
Typical Bundesliga, Matchday 12
Sunday, 2.30 pm:
Salzburg – WAC
Wals-Siezenheim, Red Bull Arena
Possible configurations:
Salzburg: Stankovic – Kristensen, Ramalho, Wöber, Ulmer – E. Mwepu, Onguene, Junuzovic, Szoboszlai – Berisha, Dhaka
WAC: Kofler – Novak, Baumgartner, Lochoshvili, Scherzer – Taferner, Leitgeb, Liendl, Sprangler – Vizinger, Joveljic
“An intense match awaits us”
According to his own statements, Marsch expects a “good fight” in the competition between the two sixteenth finalists of the Europa League. Another intense game awaits us. The WAC was very good in the League and in the Europa League ”, warned the American.
In fact, the Wolfsbergers recently rode the wave of success. Four of the last five competitive matches were won, which included, among other things, promotion to the knockout stages of the Europa League and entry to the quarterfinals of the cup. “We have had an incredible week,” said coach Ferdinand Feldhofer.
Fight for the master group
Only in the league do you fall a little behind your own expectations. WAC are currently in seventh place but have a game up their sleeve within two points of SKN St. Pölten. With a surprise in Wals-Siezenheim, Carinthians would improve their own position in the fight for a place in the championship group. “If we draw on our performance, we can get something,” says Feldhofer.
The Styrian do not believe in meeting Salzburg tired and ready for the holidays. “Weaknesses can happen to them in the League when they play in the Champions League three days later. Sturm and Admira benefited from this. It certainly won’t be saved from us, ”Feldhofer guessed.
LASK keep going
LASK also wants to give it its all again at the end of the year and be in close contact with Salzburg. After the recent defeat of the “Red Bulls”, they returned to second place behind the league’s dominator, and the Linz team plans three points for Austria on Sunday. The Viennese are seriously affected. Seven points in the first four rounds followed just three in the next seven games.
Sunday, 5 pm:
Austria – LASK
Vienna, Generali Arena
Possible configurations:
Austria: Pentz – Teigl, Handl, Palmer-Brown, Suttner – Pichler, Zwierschitz, Grünwald, Wimmer – Fitz, Turgeman
LASK: Schlager – Wiesinger, Trauner, Andrade – Ranftl, Madsen, Michorl, Renner – Gruber, Eggestein, Goiginger
If LASK is back on the hunt for champion Salzburg two points behind, Austria, in ninth place, is only three points behind Admira. The “Veilchen” have not won against LASK for more than three years. They have only drawn two in the last ten games.
Dominik Thalhammer wanted to see his team perform well before the 43rd competitive game of the calendar year. “Our performance against Tottenham (in the Europa League, note) and last week against Salzburg were very good. That is the benchmark against which we measure ourselves, and we want to bring this level to the pitch in the last game before winter break, ”said the Linz head coach.
The goal is to end the “third phase of the season” on a positive note. Thalhammer, who has been with LASK since July, said his team improved again in this regard. Former Austrian James Holland, who suffered a thigh injury in the cup match against Elektra, was in question before the trip to Vienna. LASK also trusts Johannes Eggestein at the Generali Arena. The strong German form scored four times in the last three rounds of the league, against Elektra he scored all goals in 3-0.
Austria is not where Stöger wants it
Austria steeled itself after 0: 1 in the first season comparison. Things went well for the favorites in subsequent games too, before a series of buffers followed with the loss to Salzburg. “We have not developed in the way that we would have liked or desired,” Peter Stöger frankly admitted on Friday. Viewing everything negatively is not an option.
“I am far from trying to do well with myself. But there are phases in which we do well the things we discuss. We don’t play against the wall week after week, ”said Stöger. In some areas, however, crucial things are not done well enough. The head coach analyzed that his team could not turn things around in tight matches. “We didn’t have the strength or the spirit. That is crucial. “
The relegation battle is still not a problem
The fact that Austria should even take care of staying in class was not yet a problem for Stöger. “There is still time for the relegation battle. The time to enter the top six is shorter. A few weeks later it will be decided if you are in a relegation battle ”, he commented. Of course you have to face the current situation, so Stöger. Looking at the table “is not pleasant. No one can and should not be satisfied with the performance. “
WSG exudes confidence
SV Ried wants to get the second win in the second appearance of the season with Gerhard Schweitzer. If Innviertler’s assistant coach was primarily responsible for the sideline instead of Gerald Baumgartner, who was ill at the time, in the surprise success against Rapid, he took over the promoted team after Baumgartner’s release by the end of the year. . The self-confident WSG Tirol will be waiting in Innsbruck on Sunday (2.30pm).
Sunday, 2.30 pm:
WSG Tirol – Ried
Innsbruck, Tivoli Stadium
Possible configurations:
WSG: Oswald – Koch, Hager, Behounek, Schnegg – Rogelj, Petsos, Celic, Rieder – Dedic, Yeboah
Ried: Sahin-Radlinger – Takougnadi, Reifeltshammer, Reiner, Lercher – Ziegl, Offenbacher – Paintsil, Wießmeier, Grüll – Gschweidl
The Watteners have achieved four victories in the last five laps. The Tyrolese are on their way into the championship group as fifth and they want to hold this against 10th. Thomas Silberberger was looking forward to a tough game with the Rieders.
Wattens better than Viennese teams
“We have to put everything we have already put in the balance against Rapid and WAC (4: 1, note),” said the WSG coach. Silberberger didn’t expect Rieder to fundamentally change in his playing area, but he found a motivational boost in the opponent. He didn’t want to talk about outstanding bills. “In the last direct match we failed the referee,” Silberberger said.
In view of the success of his team, which was considered a relegation candidate before the season, the coach was enthusiastic. “When I see how Rapid has no chance against Red Bull and I realize that our performance against Salzburg was definitely better. Or when I see how Vienna Austria has no chance against Sturm. Our game was different. We are on the right track, that’s good for me. “
Ried has to go full speed
“We found a really strong team,” said Ried’s coach Schweitzer. He recalled Wattener’s 3-0 win at Rapid. “We will have to stand up. It will be a completely different opponent than the first game, ”said the 57-year-old. At the start of the season, the promoted team beat WSG 3-2 thanks to an offside goal in the 97th minute.
“We’re just going full throttle, otherwise it won’t look good,” Schweitzer said of the current match. Ideally, how things will continue at the Rieder Betreuerbank will be decided on New Year’s Eve.
