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SK Rapid says goodbye to the international break with a loud exclamation point. On matchday four, Hütteldorfer decided the Bundesliga’s top game against LASK with a 3-0 win.
LASK seems overwhelmed defensively after the failures of Alexander Schlager and Gernot Trauner and quickly lags behind due to Thomas Murg after he scores according to Fountas’ roster (7th).
Rapid stays and increases in minute 22: Fountas takes a tee from Hofmann and puts the ball into the goal.
In the second half, Linz started better, Ercan Kara had to scrape a shot from Andrés Andrade on his own goal line (54). After LASK substitute captain Christian Ramsebner flew off the field after a poor start against Fountas in the 66th minute, the game was finally over.
In injury time, Kara fixed the final score (90 + 3) after a Yusuf Demir squad.
Rapid enters the break with ten points in second place, LASK is seven points and is fifth.
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Trauner is absent everywhere
The clear bankruptcy was probably also due to the fact that the head of defense, 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.
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.
Fast only briefly under pressure
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.
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.
