ADMIRAL Bundesliga Matchday 6 Reviews

SK Austria Klagenfurt 2-1 WSG Tirol

Austria Klagenfurt continued their impressive start to the season by edging out winless WSG on Saturday. Giacomo Vrioni opened the scoring for the guests with his third goal of the season, and each of them has put his side 1-0 in front. Before the break though, the Klagenfurters had turned the game on its head; Patrick Greil notched his maiden goal of the campaign to level up, before summer signing Turgay Gemicibasi converted Austria Klagenfurt’s first Bundesliga spot kick in first half stoppage time. Even a fifth red card of the season couldn’t stand in their way in the second half though, as they held on to their lead despite 15 shots from the away side, inflicting WSG’s first league defeat of the season in the process.

TSV Egger Glas Hartberg 0-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg

The Red Bulls maintained their perfect form with a narrow win against Hartberg. Salzburg’s Nicolas Capaldo has featured in six Bundesliga games so far this season, and after six shots, goal number one followed in Saturday’s match in East Styria. Junior Adamu was the creator for what proved to be the game’s only goal, as he made it two games in a row that he’s made a direct scoring contribution (one goal, one assist). Rene Swete was back between the posts for Hartberg, but he played the most passes for his side with 35, as the hosts were unsurprisingly on the back foot against the defending champions. They managed six shots in the game, but found no way through as they fell to a creditable 1-0 defeat.

CASHPOINT SCR Altach 1-2 RZ Pellets WAC

WAC put together a much-needed pair of wins by coming from behind to grab victory away in Vorarlberg. Altach hadn’t scored inside the opening quarter of an hour all season, so you could understand the home fans’ excitement when Atdhe Nuhiu fired in after an assist from Manuel Thurnwald just five minutes after kick off. A quick fire double left Wolfsberg leading at the break though, after their reliable number 10 Michael Liendl set up two goals in the last few minutes of the half. Liendl now has an incredible 48 assists since returning to WAC in the summer of 2018, the highest figure in that time period. Thorsten Röcher was the player to get the leveller, before Tai Baribo scored his third of the campaign, and his first away goal, barely a minute later. With no goals after the break, Wolfsberg won 2-1 to move into the top six and leave a tough start to the season behind them.

FK Austria Wien 1-1 SK Rapid Wien

Another tense Vienna Derby ended without a winner, as both teams left the Generali Arena somewhat dissatisfied with a point. Lukas Mühl was set up by Eric Martel to give the Violets the lead shortly after the half-hour mark, scoring his first Bundesliga goal on derby day. Rapid came out firing after the interval, however, and another lively performance from Marco Grüll saw him grab the equaliser by heading in seconds after the restart. He’s now got 14 Bundesliga goals, three of which have come against Austria, making them his favourite opponents in goal scoring terms. It was Srdjan Grahovac who teed up Grüll, and after 121 Bundesliga appearances, it was high time for his first assist! Austria keeper Patrick Pentz was the slighty busier shot-stopper, but nobody found the net again as it ended all-square in Favoriten.

FC Flyeralarm Admira 1-1 SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz

Admira put up a battling display as they claimed a precious home point against high-flyers Sturm. It was man-of-the-moment Manprit Sarkaria who put Sturm ahead following Kelvin Yeboah’s assist in the first half. That was Sarkaria’s 15^th career goal in the Bundesliga, and the first one with his right foot (13 with the left, 1 header); it even happened to mark 100 total Bundesliga goals for the season. Admira are showing a new found steel this year though, and the impressive Leonardo Lukacevic recorded assist number four in this young season when he provided the lay-up for Roman Kerschbaum’s to head home his first goal of the campaign. With 20 minutes left on the clock, Sturm couldn’t break Admira’s resistance, and therefore the spoils were shared.

SV Guntamatic Ried 1-0 LASK

Ried earned regional bragging rights with victory in the opening Upper-Austrian derby of the Bundesliga season. Daniel Offenbacher provided his first assist since 2018 when he set up Constantin Reiner to score his second goal of the season after 17 minutes. All of Reiner’s last four goals have now come from set pieces. LASK threw everything they had at their local rivals; Peter Michorl was on the ball a game-high 118 times as his team peppered Samuel Sahin-Radlinger’s goal with 22 shots and saw 73% of the ball. There was, however, no way past an SV Ried side who have turned the Josko Arena into something of a fortress of late, and the hosts held on for a memorable win which lifted them into a brilliant third place in the Bundesliga table.