Jaissle after Salzburg bankruptcy in a storm: “I’m not doing it!” – Football
But not everything the same in the Bundesliga, as one might have guessed after the first round?
In any case, it is unusual that FC Red Bull Salzburg have to investigate the causes of a defeat early in the season.
Because in recent years, the series champion has always been a series winner in the early stages of the season.
In 2018/19 and 2021/22 they started with ten wins in a row, in 2019/20 with seven, and in 2020/21 still with six.
The 1:2 at SK Sturm Graz not only prevented a start-finish victory for the Mozartstadt team this season, but was also the second league defeat in this calendar year – both times Graz-Liebenau lost out.
By the way, the last bankruptcy in July happened to the “Bulls” in 2016, and that too during a storm, when the team of Australian coach Oscar Garcia lost 3-1 to Franco Foda at the start of the season.
Championship not a sure-fire success
Was the current defeat the famous shot across the bow? According to coach Matthias Jaissle, this will become apparent in the coming weeks.
“I have often emphasized that the championship this season will not be a sure-fire success again due to the upheaval,” emphasizes the coach.
“The preparation was also such that we are simply not at 100 percent at this point in time. We were aware of that,” Jaissle continued.
The missing basic virtues
Nevertheless, the 34-year-old is convinced that they would have been ready to strike up a storm or at least stand up to them. At least in theory.
In practice, Salzburg lacked the “basic virtues”. At least Jaissle ended up with this term again and again in retrospect.
“We have to get our act together, Sturm Graz did a better job of that. It’s unnecessary and it annoys me too. It wasn’t a good game for our team,” the coach clarified.
Wöber: “Storm has bought the cutting edge from us”
“What Sturm Graz showed over 90 minutes are our normal strengths – the basic virtues of fighting, biting and running. Beautiful football then comes automatically. We didn’t bring these basic virtues onto the pitch and therefore deservedly lost them,” Maximilian Wöber also misses in this party the basics.
The self-critical judgment of the defender: “We know that we scored the first goal ourselves. We also know that there were other situations in which we didn’t defend consistently. Everyone saw that not much went together from start to finish .”
The “cops” rarely afford such a collective blackout. Why didn’t it work this time?
Wöber: “It’s always written like this, the players didn’t want to or the mentality was missing. I don’t think that’s generally the case with us. We’re usually a team that’s always hungry, always wanting . I don’t think that was necessarily the problem against Sturm either. Everyone wanted to win this game. But Sturm simply bought the nerve from us. With every duel we’ve lost, we’ve retreated even further.”
Jaissle continues to trust Köhn
The unfortunate interaction of central defender Bernardo and goalie Philipp Köhn at 0:1 is symbolic.
“There’s no need to beat around the bush, I don’t look good doing it. I’ll take the mistake on my own,” said the custodian, not wanting to blame Bernardo for the back pass.
As a reminder: After a rather uncertain performance at the start of the previous season in Graz, Nico Mantl lost his place in goal to Köhn despite a 3-1 win.
According to Jaissle, the current number one is not threatened by this fate: “We trust Philipp, he has performed well for a long time, so there is nothing to question.”
Jaissle: “I won’t do that!”
Wöber also emphasizes that mistakes are “absolutely human”. Especially when a team otherwise makes few mistakes, you have to be able to forgive them.
“We don’t need to point the finger at anyone or accuse anyone of not being focused enough. It happens, it happens to the best players in the world,” the ÖFB team player clarifies.
How you generally just have to keep calm in Salzburg. The bottom line is that one fall is not enough to call fundamental things into question.
Jaissle doesn’t do that either: “Last week we were praised to heaven, the week after the win against Liverpool too. And now everything’s bad? I don’t do it! But of course we still have one or the other topic, that we have to do it very consciously so that we can perform better in the coming weeks.”
How do you get yourself in the condition to perform?
The not very clever behavior against the pressing Sturm will be an issue as well as – right – the basic virtues. The German doesn’t even want to raise the suspicion that a highlight test against Liverpool would appeal to his protégés more than the home cooking in the Bundesliga.
“It is very individual how each player gets in the condition to perform in front of such a great crowd on such an evening. You have to ask each individual player why he didn’t make it. I think many factors play a role play,” says Jaissle.
Due to the lack of European Cup qualifying games, the Salzburg coach can currently work on one or the other problem during the week.
Although: “I’m a big fan of many games because it’s a reward for me if you can play during the week. I always have a hard time with the word double burden. Why do the boys play football? To play games. But we will definitely adjust one or the other during training in the next few weeks.”