2024-10-05 10:12:28
Hartberg achieved two wins under Schmid in the first two games – both at home. Instead of being at the bottom of the table, the East Styrians are now in seventh place in the table. Not surprising for Kühbauer. “I never understood why Hartberg was so downplayed. This is a team with many experienced, good players.”
His players would therefore have to do everything they could to win the game. Kühbauer has to do without his captain and defense chief Dominik Baumgartner, who has to miss the game due to a muscle injury in his thigh. Jonathan Scherzer is also still out, but Mamadou Diabate returns to the squad.
Bundesliga, ninth round
Saturday, 5 p.m.:
WAC – Hartberg
Wolfsberg, Lavanttal-Arena, SR Altmann
Possible lineups:
WAC: Polster – Jasic, Diabate, Wimmer, Ullmann – Altunashvili, Piesinger – Atanga, Zukic, Ballo – Pink
Hartberg: Sallinger – Heil, Wilfinger, Komposch, Pfeifer – Omoregie, Markus, Diarra – Prokop, Mijic, Avdijaj
Two old acquaintances on the coaching bench
There is a duel between two old acquaintances on the coaching benches. Kühbauer and Schmid dueled several times on the football field since they were young. “He was constantly running after me, but rarely caught the ball. His approach was ball or jack, then it was usually my feet. But I always got up,” said the ex-Rapidler Kühbauer about the ex-Austrian Schmid.
The blue-whites’ neo-head coach was Kühbauer’s predecessor until the end of the season. The collaboration at the WAC ended prematurely. However, Schmid did not classify the reunion with Wolfsberg as special. “The game is special because it wasn’t long ago that I was on the other side and you’ll meet a lot of familiar people. But it doesn’t trigger any particular emotions,” he emphasized.
The focus is on our own team, explained Schmid. “We want to win the game, just like we did against WSG and Altach, it’s no more or less important.” Last season, the Hartbergers proved invincible for the WAC, the league’s current goal factory with 19 goals. In the two defeats (0:3, 0:2) the Carinthians did not score a goal.
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