25. Okt. 2021
ADMIRAL Bundesliga Matchday 12 Reviews
FK Austria Vienna 4-1 SV Guntamatic Ried
Austria Vienna marked Markus Suttner’s 300th appearance for the Violets – a landmark honoured with a presentation before kick-off – by thrashing SV Ried 4-1 to claim their first home win of the campaign. Manfred Fischer opened the scoring from range and although it was soon cancelled out when Seifedin Chabbi restored parity with the 200th goal of this ADMIRAL Bundesliga campaign, a header from Marco Djuricin, a thunderbolt struck at 118km/h by Can Keles and a Georg Teigl tap-in saw the capital club run out comfortable winners and end their three-match winless run against the Upper Austrians. With only one defeat in their last nine outings and the second-best defence in the division, Austria Vienna have risen to fourth spot after a low-key start to the season. Ried are now five places and two points below them, having taken only three points from their six last league matches.
FC Flyeralarm Admira 0-1 WSG Tirol
A last-gasp penalty from Giacomo Vrioni saw struggling WSG Tirol snatch a 1-0 victory against Admira Wacker – only their second win of the season – that lifted them off the foot of the table. The result saw the Tyroleans extend their unbeaten streak against Admira to seven matches (W3 D4) and become the first team to stop the Lower Austrians from scoring since Wolfsberger AC on Matchday 5. WSG Tirol, who have recently experienced something of a resurgence with seven points from their last four matches, have now moved above LASK in the table and sit in 11th, four places and one point behind Admira, for whom the defeat was only the second home loss of the season after being narrowly beaten by Salzburg back in August.
RZ Pellets WAC 2-1 SK Austria Klagenfurt
Wolfsberger AC became the first Carinthian club to win a Bundesliga derby since 1984/85 with a 2-1 victory over Austria Klagenfurt – against whom they have never lost a competitive game. Thorsten Röcher opened the scoring from point-blank range around the quarter-hour mark and although Timossi Andersson equalised for the visitors seconds after the interval, Michi Liendl produced a wonderful arrowed strike into the top corner to seal the victory six minutes later. The Wolves made a miserable start to the season and were bottom of the table after four rounds but have now climbed to third after winning three consecutive league games for the first time since September 2019. The result puts an end to Austria Klagenfurt’s four-game unbeaten run and leaves them four points adrift of WAC in fifth.
TSV Egger Glas Hartberg 1-1 SK Rapid Vienna
Hartberg kept up their role as Rapid Vienna’s bogey team by snatching a 97th-minute equaliser against the Green & Whites in a 1-1 stalemate. Taxi Fountas had put Rapid a goal up with a tidy finish in the 11th minute of the match, but the Styrians fought back and rescued a point from Thomas Rotter’s late tap-in following a free-kick. It was the eighth goal the defender has scored in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga and all eight have come from set-pieces (four from free-kicks, four from corners). It was a case of two more points dropped for Rapid, who were perhaps still jaded from their midweek Europa League exertions against Dinamo Zagreb. The capital club remain in 10th place, having won only one of their last seven Bundesliga games, while Hartberg are up in the top six and have not lost a league game since the end of September.
LASK 0-1 CASHPOINT SCR Altach
LASK squandered a series of highly promising opportunities – including Thomas Goiginger striking the foot of the post – before Noah Bischof scored his first Bundesliga goal with seven minutes to go to seal a 1-0 win for Altach. The Linzers went into this game having beaten the Altachers in each of their last six league meetings and having not lost to the men from Vorarlberg in 13 games, but this latest setback in what has been a below-par Bundesliga campaign to date (W2 D4 L6) leaves them rooted to the bottom of the table with over half of the regular season played. As for Altach, a first away win of the season since beating TSV Hartberg on Matchday 2 lifts them into eighth place on 13 points, three points above LASK.
FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-1 SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz
Runaway leaders Red Bull Salzburg brushed aside their closest challengers Sturm Graz with total supremacy in a 4-1 win at the Red Bull Arena. Marauding full-back Rasmus Kristensen opened the scoring with his fourth goal of the season, before Karim Adeyemi steered home Noah Okafor’s pass to double the advantage. Jakob Jantscher hit back with his seventh goal of the season after the break, but a Jörg Siebenhandl own goal and another from Adeyemi saw the home side go 11 points clear at the summit. The Red Bulls have dropped only two points all season – the fewest across any European league with at least five rounds played – and have now scored in a record-breaking 43 consecutive Bundesliga home games. Sturm Graz still occupy second spot, five points clear of third-placed Wolfsberg.