2023-10-07 16:58:00
Gruber twice (38th, 40th and 77th minutes), with Asllani pushing in in the 55th minute – Austria Vienna sent Blau-Weiß Linz home without a goal in round 10 of the Bundesliga.
Vienna Austria achieved the longed-for first home win of the season. The Violets clearly won the game once morest newly promoted Blau-Weiß Linz on Saturday with a score of 4-0 (2-0). Andreas Gruber (38th, 40th, 77th) led Austria to a three-pointer with his five, six and seven goals of the season, Fisnik Asllani (55th) also scored in front of 12,663 spectators in the Generali Arena.
For Michael Wimmer’s team it was only the second victory this season following seven unsuccessful rounds. In the table, Austria moved past Blue-White to ninth place.
Image: GEPA pictures/ Philipp Brem (GEPA pictures)
Austria wanted to take the momentum from the 0-0 draw in the derby. The Linz team, who arrived with two away wins under their belt, tried to steal the edge from the home team early on. The game was less than five minutes old when two blue and white players, Marco Krainz and Danilo Mitrovic, had already received yellow cards. Mitrovic’s entry once morest Johannes Handl in particular was extremely tough; referee Jakob Semler had a lot to do on his debut in the upper house.
Blue and white pressing was employed by Austria Vienna
Austria was busy pressing the guests early. After the absences of the suspended James Holland and Matthias Braunöder as well as the injured Manfred Fischer, Marvin Potzmann and Aleksandar Jukic formed the central midfield. In the Viennese’s best chance in the first half hour, Manuel Polster was unable to get past BW goalkeeper Nicolas Schmid as he rushed out of the goal (14′).
Austria remained harmless offensively for the time being. Blue-White played at eye level, Conor Noß came close to scoring a goal, and with their combined efforts the purple backline prevented the deficit (25′). But Austria had their goalscorer off duty. Gruber hammered the ball under the crossbar with his left following a pass from Dominik Fitz and, less than two minutes later, used Polster’s assist once more in the style of a goalscorer. Gruber had accounted for 75 percent of all Austria goals in the Bundesliga at this point.
Image: GEORG HOCHMUTH (APA)
After the break, the favorites wanted to follow up. Fitz did everything right, only the finish didn’t work (47′). Asllani rewarded the Wimmer team with his first goal of the season following Schmid had just managed to defuse a Gruber shot.
Scheiblehner tried substitutions
BW coach Gerald Scheiblehner tried to breathe new life into his team with substitutions, but Austria didn’t allow anything and had space for counterattacks. Gruber used one of these to make it 4-0 before he was allowed to end his working day. Substitute Kristijan Dobras hit the outside bar in the finish for Blue-White. After only scoring six goals in nine rounds, the Austrians were able to celebrate a landslide victory in the end.
Image: GEORG HOCHMUTH (APA)
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