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THE Sporting faces next Thursday, at 8:00 p.m., the LASK Linz, at the Alvalade stadium, in a playoff duel to access the group stage of the Europa League.
Instead of previous seasons, this tie is played in one hand and a loss will translate the goodbye to European competition for one of the teams.
The Austrian team is an old acquaintance of the Verdiblanco club, since, in the previous season, the LASK He played for Sporting twice, both in the group stage of the Europa League.
However, in just over nine months a lot has changed in the two emblems, both in terms of players present in the respective plants, as well as on the faces that lead respective banks.
It is enough to remember that 12 December, date of the last confrontation between LASK and Sporting, and ended with an Austrian win 3-0, the coach Valérien Ismael still ‘resided’ in the emblem of Linz, for now the place will be occupied by Dominik Thalhammer. And life even runs smoothly for the 49-year-old, who, in the five games he played this time, adds four wins and a draw, in a balance between goals scored and conceded 15-2.
It should be added that, for the championship, the LASK occupies the third position, with seven points, just two behind the leader and current champion, RB Salzburg. In addition to this dome of good results, we must also match the numbers blunt that the Austrian team applied in the previous round to Dun. Wednesday of Slovakia (7-0). Here, then, is a good business card before returning to Alvalade, a field from which LASK defeated in 3 October 2019, 2-1, in a duel on the second day of the Europa League group stage.
Third round between Sporting and LASK: An unrecognizable lion against an opponent of almost similar identity
We have already seen that the ‘mentors’ who sit respective The benches are different compared to the last matches between the two teams: Valérien Ismael gave way to Dominik Thalhammer, Silas already marched from Alvalade in exchange for Ruben Amorim.
However, it is important to remember that the 22 members who were members in Alvalade, in October 2019 will undoubtedly be very different from the names that will enter the game sheet of Thalhammer and Amorim.
Just remember that in that previous duel that took place in the green and white bastion, the lions entered the field with Renan, Luis Neto, Coates, Mathieu, Doumbia, Miguel Luís, Wendel, Bruno Fernandes, Acuna; Bolasie me Luiz Phellype. Which means that, of these eleven, only Coates, Luís Neto and Wendel repeat property.
At the time, Valérien Ismael entered Alvalade with the following eleven: Bat, Wiesinger, Filipovic, Trauner, Holland, Michorl, Ranftl, Potzmann, Deep fryer, Goiginger me Raguz. If the changes we see in the campus Sporting is abysmal and the changes in the green and white column confirm that, already in the team of Dominik Thalhammer the stage of stability reigns.
Compared to what happened almost a year ago and compared to the eleven that Thalhammer played in the last match of the Austrian championship, against the Wolfsberger, eight players repeat the title: Bat, Wiesinger, Trauner, Wiesinger, Michorl, Holland, Ranftl me Raguz.
It is also important to remember that in today’s transfer market, the LASK It only paid out 1.25 million euros, four of which seven reinforcements came at zero cost. In fact, the philosophy of the club continues to be to bet on the silver of the house and with the local stamp, after all the 27 players that make up campus only eight are foreigners.
In fact, a very different situation from that of the Alvalade club, which still has to apply some cuts in the size of the campus, and that currently has 21 foreign players on the team. However, and apart from these figures, it is important to highlight another great difference, which highlights the value of respective clubs.
According to data released by the portal Transfermarkt, The campus at the orders of Ruben Amorim is valued at 153.83 million euros, well above the market value of one LASK Linz which amounts to 31.45 million.
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