FK Austria Vienna | “Time to score in Salzburg”
At the end of the season, Austria had eleven departures with Patrick Pentz, Christian Schoissengeyr, Markus Suttner, Vesel Demaku, Alex Grünwald, Eric Martel (loans), Max Sax, Levan Jordania, Bright Edomwonyi, Sterling Yateke and Noah Ohio (loans).
So far, nine newcomers have signed: Christian Früchtl, Matan Baltaxa, Billy Koumetio, Reinhold Ranftl (both on loan), James Holland, Andreas Gruber, Haris Tabakovic, Manuel Polster and Marko Raguž.
“The team is growing together more and more, I’m absolutely satisfied with the new players. Together with our medical department, we will introduce those who still have injury problems as best we can,” explains Manfred Schmid.
The violets start the new season with minus three points, at the start they go straight to the reigning champions FC Red Bull Salzburg: “We see the game as a great challenge. It’s a good opportunity for the team to present themselves. I think that after Friday’s game we’ll know exactly what’s still missing and what we still have to work on. We came close to scoring against Salzburg three times in the pre-season. Now it’s time for us to take something away from Salzburg. We have to be 100% concentrated for 90 minutes and take advantage of our chances,” says the Austria coach.
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Haris Tabakovic and Dominik Fitz, both of whom were unable to play in the cup recently, have been back in team training since the beginning of the week. Ziad El Sheiwi, Matan Baltaxa and Marko Raguž are injured. Marco Djuricin is still under construction. Georg Teigl and Aleksandar Jukic are ill and therefore doubtful for Friday.