Bundesliga LIVE: Champions group, Sturm Graz – Red Bull Salzburg
Sturm Graz versus Red Bull Salzburg is the current duel in the Admiral Bundesliga, second meets first – and yet the tension beforehand is manageable.
Salzburg are again early champions, Graz secured second place with a 1-1 win at Rapid by eight points. However, the point was bought dearly, Sturm has personnel worries. A show of the bankers is on Wednesday in Graz (from 6:30 p.m. in the LIVE ticker) expected.
Storm coach Christian Ilzer congratulated Salzburg on their ninth title in a row. “But tomorrow we don’t just want to offer our congratulations, we want to offer a really good football game.”
The fighting game against Rapid left personnel gaps. “Several positions will be necessary,” reveals Ilzer before the 29th lap. “Several players have memories of Maxi Hofmann.”
cases all over the place
In front of goalie Jörg Siebenhandl, the storm coach has to improvise in all parts of the team. With Gregory Wüthrich (suspended), Jusuf Gazibegovic (ill), Jon Gorenc-Stankovic (suspended/injured) and Rasmus Höjlund (suspended), the defender, right-back, regular six and young star striker are missing.
Stankovic reported a collateral ligament overstretching in the knee and an injury to the head of the fibula when fouled, the injury is less serious than initially assumed, Ilzer believes cases in May are possible.
In the case of Otar Kiteishvili (muscle injury in his calf), the course is difficult to predict. Anderson Niangbo (adductors) and Alexander Prass, who hobbled off the field in Hütteldorf, should have made it into the match squad.
Salzburg will also rotate
Which 22 men will stand on the lawn in Graz is more than ever reading coffee brews. Because the cup final against Ried awaits Salzburg on Sunday, to which everything WILL be subordinated. In view of the double chance – it would be the eighth within ten years – coach Matthias Jaissle will also give some noble reservist deployment times.
The coach already emphasized on Sunday that “we still have a little something to do”. “The goal is to make the cup victory clear.”
They also have this “in the back of their minds” in Graz, i.e. Jaissle on Tuesday. “We’ll have to see how we approach it in terms of personnel. We’ll decide that at short notice.”
Ilzer: “It doesn’t matter who starts at Salzburg, they have a double top squad.”
In any case, Maurits Kjaergaard, one of the highly talented players who are likely to move up, referred in a club broadcast to the importance of not taking your foot off the gas before the “big goal”. “We don’t want to let any sloppiness break in.”
Sturm won half of their 28 games this season. Salzburg, on the other hand, even have 23 – as the first team in the three-point era up to this point in the championship.
The dominance is also evident in the direct duel: The last five games went to Salzburg, four of which ended with at least three goals for the “bulls”.
Sturm’s recent home record is also impressive. The Grazers are unbeaten in seven games and have won their last four games. However, with a staff that WILL mostly just watch the Master’s visit.
SK Sturm Graz – Red Bull Salzburg
Graz, Merkur Arena, 6:30 p.m., SR Schüttengruber)
Results of the season so far: 1:3 (h), 1:4 (a), 0:1 (a)
Possible lineups:
Storm: Siebenhandl – Ingolitsch, Affengruber, Jäger, Dante – Hierländer, Ljubic, Niangbo, Prass – Sarkaria, Jantscher
Substitute: Schützenauer – Borkovic, Trummer, Kuen, Schendl, Lang, Kronberger
Out: Wüthrich (suspended), Höjlund (suspended), Stankovic (suspended/overstretched collateral ligament), Kiteishvili (calf muscle injury), Wels (ill), Geyrhofer (convalescent)
Salzburg: Mantl – Van der Brempt, Piatkowski, Solet, Bernardo – Sucic, Junuzovic, Kjaergaard, N. Seiwald – Adamu, Sesko
Substitute: Köhn – Kristensen, Wöber, Ulmer, Aaronson, Capaldo, Adeyemi, Okafor
Out: Camara (suspended), Okoh (knee), Guindo (back)
Doubtful: Capaldo (knee), Okafor (contusion)
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