2023-05-06 17:11:00
Promoted Austria Lustenau also has arithmetically certain that they will stay up four rounds before the end of the Bundesliga. On Saturday, Markus Mader’s team handed in a 2-2 (1-0) win against bottom team Ried. As the leader of the qualifying group, they can even speculate about the European Cup play-off. For Rieder, the situation is still precarious with a point behind Altach.
A week after the crazy 4:4 between the two teams in Ried, Dario Grujcic surprisingly put Lustenau in front (42nd). Lukas Fridrikas (73rd) sealed the relegation. The equal guests only equalized through Tin Plavotic (50th) and in added time through Junior Diomande (96th). In the previous week, this had been granted to Lustenau.
Lustenau – compared to the most recent duel with the defensive returnees Jean Hugonet and Anderson, among others – had a hard time in front of the home crowd with the high-ranking Rieders. The unchanged guests also had the first and long only chance, but the shot by Aleksandar Lutovac from close range mutated into a roller on goalie Domenik Schierl (6th). Later, a long-distance attempt by Christoph Lang just went over the crossbar of the Lustenau goal (26th).
However, this slight excess of danger in a rather meager game did not pay off. On the contrary. Shortly before half-time, a Grujcic header from a free-kick swooped past Samuel Sahin-Radlinger into the far post. The standards that Lustenau had feared from Rieder were initially fatal to the guests, and that at the first real opportunity for Austria.
But Ried wasn’t discouraged and also got “his” dead ball. Shortly after half-time, Plavotic headed the ball to make it 1-1 as a result of a corner and gave the game new fire. Yadaly Diaby tested Sahin-Radlinger with a shot from the turn just a minute later (51′), later it was Hugonet who sent a volley into the clouds in the five-pointer (63′). For Ried, Belmin aimed too centrally at Schierl (55′) and missed Seifedin Chabbi from a distance (61′).
The supposed decision in a duel that was now at eye level finally brought Fridrikas. After preliminary work, the 25-year-old drew Diabys on goal with a lot of conviction and, thanks to his ninth goal of the season, made it into the top ten in the scoring list with a sensitive shot into the far corner. In the finish, Schierl not only held on to victory with a deep Chabbi-Köpfler (83′) but also with a low free-kick from Marcel Ziegl (85′). However, he too was defeated when Diomandes cracked the ball from around 30 meters in the last action of the game.
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