LASK faces a particularly difficult task in the Bundesliga on Sunday (2.30 p.m.): The athletes are guests of SK Sturm, who took the next step towards defending their title in the cup: The Graz team won 4-3 in the semi-finals in Salzburg revenge for the Bundesliga defeat five days earlier.
On Sunday, Salzburg overtook their pursuers for the championship title with a 1-0 win, and in the “second leg” in Salzburg, Oumar Solet put the home team in the lead – the player for whom Graz had demanded a subsequent suspension because of the stranglehold in the Bundesliga duel.
The defending cup champions deserved the equalizer from William Böving (25′), then Alexander Schlager gave Sturm a place in the final: First, the Salzburg goalkeeper mightn’t tame Tomi Horvath’s harmless shot (52′), even when the score was 3-1 David Schnegg (71st) didn’t look good. Linz-born Luka Sucic fueled Salzburg’s hopes of extra time with the 2:3 (79′), which Niklas Geyrhofer (81′) destroyed with the 4:2. The replacement of key Storm player Jon Gorenc-Stankovic, who was suspended as he was on Sunday once morest LASK, scored with a header following a corner from the five-pointer – Schlager would probably have had to intervene once more on the cross.
In the final once more once morest Rapid
Aleksa Terzic made stoppage time exciting with 3:4 (90th), but Sturm prevailed away in Salzburg, as in the quarter-finals of the previous season (5:4 following penalties). The final opponent on May 1st in Klagenfurt is once once more Rapid. Sturm’s euphoria will probably blow away any tiredness ahead of Sunday’s Bundesliga game once morest LASK.
