Wiener Austria can show on Sunday (5:00 p.m. in the live ticker) at the end of the 20th round of the Bundesliga that it is not an opponent of the build-up for the slumped series champion Red Bull Salzburg.
As a game of possibly the last master group chance for the “violets” and a test for the Salzburgers, the duel suddenly brings unexpected explosiveness.
Austria coach Christian Ilzer followed the recent two defeats in Salzburg with interest. “I saw that LASK and Frankfurt made it extremely difficult for Salzburgers with their extremely robust, aggressive style of play,” says Ilzer.
He did not want to speculate about a possible uncertainty in the League Croesus. “It definitely hasn’t gotten any easier. You will be focused, with a bit of anger in your stomach. We are expecting them with full force.”
Salzburg is threatened by a historic negative run
Austria are six games unbeaten, but have lost the past five duels with the Bulls. “It doesn’t make any difference to me that Haaland and Minamino are no longer there, they didn’t play against us in autumn (1-4, note). Salzburg always has the quality to knock out extreme top games,” emphasizes Ilzer.
For Salzburg, it is about more than the possible recovery of the league lead from the LASK. “It is good for us that the game against Austria is coming so quickly. I expect the team to react in an enormously important game,” said coach Jesse Marsch the day after the bitter 1-4 humiliation in the Europa League against Frankfurt and little sleep. “It was a long night for me.”
The scenario of three losses in a row is at least in the room. Salzburg last had to take such a series in autumn 2014 under Adi Hütter when they lost to Malmö (0: 3), Sturm (2: 3) and WAC (0: 1). Marsch’s replica: “We are not dealing with this at all. We are going to Vienna to win and to gain confidence.”
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