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After a good start to the season in the Bundesliga, SKN St. Pölten traveled to Linz on Sunday with a wide chest and returned home with their heads hanging. Because LASK pitted Lower Austria against the wall for 90 minutes, won 4-0 (1-0) and still had a good chance of getting an even bigger victory.
Linz allowed a chance at half a minute, but nothing more. After that, the party just ran towards the guest door. Andreas Gruber (34th), the prominent Reinhold Ranftl (46th), Lukas Grgic (56th) and Thomas Goiginger (87th) in their comeback to the Bundesliga after their cruciate ligament tear in March ensured the clear success with which LASK advanced to third place in the table behind Salzburg and Rapid.
Big compliment from Ibertsberger for LASK
The biggest compliment for the convincing performance came from the opponent. “I’m almost of the opinion that it was almost a little bit harder to resist than in the Cup against Salzburg, because LASK was a little more intense. They didn’t give us air to breathe,” said St. Pölten- Coach Robert Ibertsberger, who lost 3-0 to the series champions with his team a week ago.
Dominik Thalhammer was also understandably full of praise for his team. “It was a very, very strong performance,” the LASK coach summed up. “We were extremely dominant, controllers, we saw a lot of opportunities to score. It was very, very good positional play, very targeted ball possession. You saw a lot of crosses, attacks from the side, which, if you want to find something, even better in some situations. It could be. have played to the end, “Thalhammer analyzed and rightly stated:” The game could have gone even better.
In any case, LASK gained a lot of self-confidence for the second game of the Europa League on Thursday in Linz against Ludogorez Razgrad. It remains to be seen if James Holland (ankle injury) and Rene Renner (concussion), whose absence was negligible on Sunday, will get back into shape in time. “50:50, probably not,” Thalhammer said.
St. Pölten, even after eleven Bundesliga duels with LASK still without a win (eight losses, three draws), disappointed across the board. Also to Ibertsberger’s surprise. “The opponent was extremely strong, the victory should have been better, as many scoring opportunities as were missed. We have to be happy, we were well served with 4-0. On the other hand, I am disappointed with how we presented ourselves. I did not expect that no we had no access. We seemed very lethargic. We also let ourselves be crushed mentally, “said the coach.
Analyze and question and then quickly score is the motto at St. Pölten. Because with Ried and WSG Tirol expect two opponents from the lower half of the table.
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