The under-21 team loses to Albania

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Bitter start to the 2020 international game year for the U21 national team (born 1998). The team surrounding Captain Marco Friedl has to be part of the In qualifying for the UEFA Under-21 European Championship 2021, the Albanian team won 5-1.

After the ÖFB talents got off to a good start, the Albanians become a little more active, but the leadership is still happy. Albania captain Sherif Kallaku circles a free kick from almost 20 meters over the wall to the bottom edge of the crossbar. From there, the ball jumps onto Ehmann’s back and rolls toward the goal.

“It was a used day. In fact, we got off to a good start. However, it quickly became clear that we were defending poorly and that we had not found any solution against the dense defense of the Albanians, ”said ÖFB sports director Peter Schöttel.

To make matters worse, the ÖFB team lost a player shortly after to Alexandar Borkovic through injury. From now on, Friedl goes to the center alongside Maresic, David Schnegg debuts on the left.

The red-and-white-red defense remains in disarray as the Albanians rise to 0: 2 in the 26th minute. Indrit Tuci suddenly appears completely alone in front of Ehmann, lets him out and pushes, frozen.

After the break, only Austria played, but the Albanians scored again. Ernest Muci increased in minute 63. More than the connection reached by Hannes Wolf (83rd) is not possible. The returnee safely scores a penalty after Marco Grüll was knocked down.

Muchi (87th) and Adolf Selmani (89th) meet again for the guests.

“Some things need to be discussed, we will too. We will not act like this again. Now we have to get up and attack again, ”said Schöttel.

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04.09.2020