Bundesliga: Salzburg continues winning streak at Austria
Nevertheless, the “Bulls” have everything in their own hands in the second leg against Austria next Sunday to be able to celebrate the next championship in front of their home crowd. In the Generali Arena, Junior Adamu (52nd) and Joker Luka Sucic (78th) score for the Jaissle-Elf, who are twelve points ahead of Sturm with five games left in the season. Aleksandar Jukic (65th) scored the equalizer for the bravely fighting Austria with a hand penalty.
“Austria expert” Karim Adeyemi was in the starting XI for the first time in a month for Salzburg. The 20-year-old German national player had scored the winning goal 1-0 in each of the two previous season duels with the “Veilchen”. Austria coach Manfred Schmid had to do without the veteran Alexander Grünwald, who became a father at Easter. Center forward Romeo Vucic made his starting eleven debut.
Salzburg further unstoppable
Red Bull Salzburg continues to march undeterred towards nineteen championship titles in a row. The “Bulls” defeated Austria Vienna 2-1 away and remained in the master group without losing any points.
The Viennese started enthusiastically, cheered on by 9,659 spectators, Salzburg initially had a hard time against Austria’s courageous 3-4-3. Adamu found the first good chance after 15 minutes, but the U21 international’s volley after a corner kick went well over. In the course of the encounter, Austria got into the game better and kept Salzburg away from their own goal for long stretches.
Referee is in multiple focus
Shortly after the change of sides, referee Christian-Petru Ciochirca was in the spotlight several times. First, an alleged penalty foul by Manfred Fischer against Nicolas Capaldo on the edge of the penalty area caused a stir, VAR Rene Eisner reversed the decision after seeing the video images. Capaldo headed the due free kick to the crossbar, but Ciochirca wrongly decided on a corner kick. This was extended by Kamil Piatkowski with a header to the second post, where Adamu scored his sixth league goal free-standing and ice-cold into the near corner.
Penalties were awarded at the opposite end ten minutes later after Piatkowski touched the ball with his hand after a Jukic hook. Jukic started himself and didn’t give RB goalie Philipp Köhn a chance. The winner of the double managed to get the answer again in the final phase: Joker Noah Okafor served Sucic with a perfect cross from the left, the 19-year-old Croatian didn’t give Austria goalie Patrick Pentz a chance with a direct shot into the far corner.
In injury time, Dominik Fitz scored with a direct free-kick for the supposed equalizer, but Noah Ohio blocked Köhn’s view from abroad.
Comments on the game:
Manfred Schmidt (Austria coach): “The team put in a strong performance and played well. It’s very, very bitter that we didn’t take anything with us today. I feel sorry for the team. Closely lost, got nothing, but we’ll keep working. It was never, ever a corner kick. I’m particularly annoyed that half the Salzburg team was already on the way back. The whole stadium saw that too. He (referee) did it and apologized, but that doesn’t do us much good.”
Matthias Jaissle (Salzburg coach): “As expected, it was a harder fight. Austria has been doing that well all season. All in all, we didn’t play the best game, but we won. It wasn’t a corner kick, so there should have been a goal kick. I would have liked to have closed the sack today. But the thing is, we did our thing.”
Admiral Bundesliga, 27th round
Sunday:
Austria Vienna – Salzburg 1: 2 (0: 0)
Generali Arena, 9,659 spectators, SR Ciochirca
Consequence:
0-1 Adamu (52′)
1-1 Jukic (65’/penalty)
1:2 success (78th)
Austria: Pentz – Mühl, Martel, Galvao – Martins, Braunöder, Fischer, Suttner – Keles (86th/Fitz), Vucic (74th/Ohio), Jukic
Salzburg: Köhn – Kristensen, Piatkowski (77th / Solet), Wöber, Ulmer – Capaldo (74th / Junuzovic), Camara (58th / Kjaergaard), Sucic, N. Seiwald – Adamu (59th / Okafor), Adeyemi (58th /Sesko)
Yellow cards: Braunöder or camera
The best: Keles, Jukic and Adamu, Capaldo