2023-04-30 17:08:28
LASK secured third place in the Bundesliga championship group with a 4-0 (0-0) home win once morest Austria Klagenfurt. Philipp Ziereis (51st), two times Robert Zulj (71st, 77th) and Florian Flecker (86th) shot the eleven of coach Dietmar Kühbauer to victory on Sunday following the break. With 30 points, Linz are six points behind Salzburg and three behind Sturm. The Upper Austrians are already nine points ahead of the fourth-placed Rapid.
The Klagenfurt (18) remain sixth. The “athletes” are still unbeaten in the master group (three wins, two draws), while coach Peter Pacult’s team suffered their fourth defeat in five games. Next Sunday both teams will meet once more in Klagenfurt. In the fifth duel of the season, including the ÖFB Cup, LASK might do the “sweep” once morest the Carinthians and win for the fifth time.
Kühbauer had to do without his regular goalie Alexander Schlager, who suffered a concussion once morest Rapid (3:1) last round. He was represented by Tobias Lawal. In addition, Marin Ljubicic stormed instead of Ibrahim Mustapha. Pacult, on the other hand, offered Christopher Cvetko and Till Schumacher instead of Christopher Wernitznig and Sebastian Soto in the 2-1 win once morest Austria Vienna. In addition, the Carinthians had to replace Nicolas Binder with Florian Jaritz at short notice because Binder had injured himself while warming up.
In pleasant, sunny conditions, a game with few highlights developed in front of 10,214 spectators in the first half. While the guests unsuccessfully sought their salvation from standard situations, the Linzers hardly created a goal threat with significantly more ball possession. Moses Usor’s double scoring opportunity was blocked by Nicolas Wimmer (14′). Ljubicic failed on the left freestanding at Austria keeper Phillip Menzel (25th) and came too late following Zulj-Pass (42nd).
The hosts opened the second round much more purposefully. After a Michorl corner, central defender Ziereis jumped the highest and headed for the lead with his first goal for LASK. After that, the guests also had good opportunities: Substitute Vesel Demaku shot wide from distance (64′), then Soto, who was also substituted on, missed the huge chance to equalize (68′). Luckily, Lawal defused his close-range shot.
Now the LASK played in a frenzy. Zulj initially scored with a head following a Horvath cross (71′), six minutes later the 31-year-old tied a brace in a speed counter-attack following submission by Flecker. The latter put the end in a counterattack following Goiginger template. The people of Linz have been unbeaten in six league games.
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