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Rapid celebrates the clear home win over LASK and trembles towards the end of transfer time. The Upper Austria want to “put another player in the offensive area.”
Rapid confirmed his position as the first chaser of defending champion Red Bull Salzburg on Sunday. Hütteldorfer drove in the Allianz Stadium against LASK in the league fourth round hit with a clear 3-0 home win. The Linzers owed a lot three days after their promotion to the Europa League at Sporting Lisbon and without captain Gernot Trauner. The last day of transfer time, Monday, was eagerly awaited by both teams.
At Camp Rapid, they hoped they could maintain the successful starting eleven on Sunday. Especially about the two offensive pillars Taxiarchis Fountas and Thomas Murg, there have been a lot of change rumors recently. Murg is said to have a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia. This has not yet satisfied the club. “So shortly before the end we will not accept that if the price does not fit. I would say the scroll bar is closed,” Rapids sports director Zoran Barišić told “Sky.”
That sounds good to Dietmar Kühbauer. Other outings after captain Stefan Schwab would be a major setback in light of the intense six-game Europa League autumn. “It would be a very bad story for the team, the right word would be fatal, but almost too little,” said the Rapid coach. The Linzers do not have this concern and want to reinforce their squad. “It is already the declared goal to get another player into the offensive area,” revealed LASK coach Dominik Thalhammer.
Thalhammer, LASK coach: “The bottom line is that it wasn’t enough”
In Vienna, the LASK offense, which had previously impressed internationally with eleven goals in two qualifying matches, was practically non-existent. Then there was Schnitzer on defense. Philipp Wiesinger made a mistake before the first two goals conceded by Murg (7th) and Fountas (22nd), misjudging long shots. “Two long balls, two goals, then we couldn’t come back, I think because of the hardships and intensities of the last weeks,” Thalhammer analyzed.
The previous rotation was probably not the best decision. Furthermore, the experiment of bringing Wiesinger into the middle as chief of defense can be described as a failure. As in the 3-1 win against Wolfsberger AC on match day, Thalhammer had to improvise. It was only after lunch that it became clear that Trauner was unable to play due to a gastrointestinal virus. “Trauner is extremely strong at the top and of course he lacked a lot. But that shouldn’t be an excuse,” said the LASK coach.
Without him, there would be no stability behind and the risk of goals in set pieces ahead. Christian Ramsebner, who had joined the team, could not assure it and was excluded after a brutal attack on Fountas (66th). “The bottom line was that it wasn’t enough to score points. A day like that can happen when you’re not so fresh in your head,” Ramsebner said.
Rapid Kühbauer coach with special praise for Ercan Kara
Kühbauer admitted that his team played the lack of “LASK stabilizer” Trauner on the cards. “There is no need to talk about it. But I don’t want to reduce the performance of my team,” said the 49-year-old. For him it was one of the best games of his tenure. “LASK is extremely difficult to play and we actually put them in their place throughout the game,” said a very satisfied Rapid coach.
An important piece of the puzzle was striker Ercan Kara, who did not shy away from a duel, took many free throws and was rewarded with a 3-0 stoppage time. “It’s hard for me to praise the players, but I think the way Erci has developed since he came from Horn, it almost hurts, in a positive way,” Kühbauer said.
With a better evaluation of the occasions, an even greater victory for his fresher, stronger and more playful team would have been possible. “It’s good that it never happened, because otherwise you’d be talking about things that I don’t really like,” explained the Burgenlander. But the euphoria is also so great.
Rapid asserts himself as Salzburg’s first pursuer
With ten points from four games, the Viennese are undefeated and just two points behind the spotless “Bulls” in the international break. “If we had said ten points, we would have taken it. But I am more satisfied with the way we managed to score those ten points,” Kühbauer said. After the first loss, LASK is still three points behind in fifth place.
In the fifth round, the athletes receive the third St. Pölten, and like Trauner, ÖFB team goalkeeper Alexander Schlager, who is missing in Vienna due to adductor problems, should again play a key role. His 20-year-old replacement Tobias Lawal did a very good job on his debut in the league, but in the future he will be able to accumulate match practices again at Juniors OÖ in the second division.
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