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Vienna Austria has their backs to the wall in the race for the championship group after just eight Bundesliga rounds.
After the 1-1 draw against SKN St. Pölten (match report >>>), in which “Veilchen” disappointed for a long time, Austria is eighth and, after four consecutive games without a win until the turn of the year with Rapid , Sturm, WAC and LASK have a difficult agenda ahead.
FAK coach Peter Stöger also knows that with performances like the one in the first half against St. Pölten it will be difficult to reach the goal of the championship group season. “If we play like this and only score like this, then it won’t be exciting for us for a relatively long time. That looks serious,” says Stöger on “Sky”, seeing his team behind in the race for the top six.
Stöger: “Yes, it was wrong”
So far, Austria has only scored against the supposedly small teams in the Bundesliga. Against direct competitors for the group of champions, the FAK suffered losses with a 0: 1 at LASK and a 0: 2 against Salzburg. To survive against opponents coming in strong, the “violets” need a significant increase in performance.
“Now we have scored two points in four games. So if you continue to score points in the category, I don’t need to be a mathematician to know that you will have to catch up. I know. We have to score differently. What if we score in a way different, it will also be a good task. It will not be a sure success, “explains Stöger.
Especially the first round against the SKN is a thorn in the side of the last master creator of FAK. Austria acted too passively against the vicious St. Pölten and were lucky not to enter the booth with a 3-0 draw. “Yeah, it was bad. Sometimes it’s also about what kind of body language we have, what it looks like. To us outside, it didn’t seem like everyone was working together in some way. There we also reacted during the break. I think it was. good, “said Stöger, describing his vision of the first half.
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Premier shooter Jukic: “I’d rather win”
Stöger initiated the aforementioned reaction in the form of a double switch after switching sides. Alon Turgeman celebrated his return and the young Aleksandar Jukic was changed. The latter restored Stöger’s confidence by ensuring that Austria won a point shortly before the end with their first goal in the Bundesliga. The 20-year-old can’t really enjoy his debut goal: “Sure I’m happy with the goal, but I’d be happy with three more points. It was definitely a match at eye level, with many chances, but for Al end, I think the point is fine. “
Jukic also knows that Austria has lagged behind its own expectations so far this season: “We train hard, of course we do our best. In the end it doesn’t always work out. But we are working to improve and do better in the next match. “. . (…) Of course we accelerate in training to stay in the top 6 and of course go higher “.
Next week Austria has the Vienna Derby and therefore a great opportunity to make amends. Rapid is in better shape this season than Austria and enters the game as a favorite despite a 3: 4 loss at Ried. Not necessarily a disadvantage for “Veilchen”, explains Stöger: “90 percent would say that the derby has its own laws. That’s why I’m not saying it now. It’s a difficult moment, everything is difficult (…) We are happy because We will not enter this derby as favorites and we will see that we deliver a surprise ”.
Ibertsberger upsets SKN’s second half
Stöger’s predecessor on the FAK sideline, Robert Ibertsberger, who was in charge of Austria on an interim basis in the last outbreak of the 2018/19 season and is currently in charge of the SKN, cannot do much with the cast of points on the distribution circle. “Even if Austria comes out more intensely and offensively at halftime, we must not get too carried away. We have to defend more courageously, we missed it. That hits almost everything closed,” the 43-year-old is upset.
Ibertsberger saw “two completely different halves. In the first half we were clearly in control and in the second half we were just too passive. Of course, Austria was also a bit more agile on offense and more aggressive,” explains the SKN coach. Austrians from Lower Austria are currently fifth in the table. This is the result of a SKN so far more than respectable season, which could very well end in the top playoff. How does Ibertsberger see the chances of St. Pölten in the fight for the top 6?
“We’ll see that then, it’s hard to say. But as it currently looks, it will probably be a longer fight. But as long as it’s possible and we can be there, we naturally want to seize the opportunity. It will certainly be exciting.
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