Red Bull Salzburg expects Black Wings Linz to play Sunday’s hit
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EC Red Bull Salzburg finished the almost week-long road trip via Graz, Ängelholm and Vienna last night and is happy tomorrow, Sunday, after nine days back to a home game. Guests are the Steinbach Black Wings Linz (3:00 p.m., live stream), who are making a guest appearance in Salzburg for the first time this season.
When the Red Bulls play Linz, there’s a derby atmosphere. The spectators in particular always made this duel a particularly well-attended classic until the beginning of the corona pandemic. For tomorrow on Family Day, when Linz play in Salzburg for the first time this season, the anticipation among their own and visiting fans is great again and the teams can look forward to an atmospheric Sunday game.
From a sporting point of view, you can expect a real classic when fourth-placed Salzburg meet fifth-placed Linz, both teams are separated by only one point. The Red Bulls won their first meeting three weeks ago in Linz 5-2, but had to wait until the final third for the goals that saved them.
The Red Bulls lost 3-0 in Vienna yesterday, but had their chances of scoring goals even with a decimated team. Goalkeeper David Kickert, who was on duty yesterday, is waiting for a turnaround: “We haven’t scored often in the last three games. There’s probably a bit of worm in there. But now we are happy to finally be back home after the long journey. We’ll pull ourselves together again and play a good game against Linz tomorrow.”
In fact, the Red Bulls had to give up the majority of their players yesterday with three injured and four sick. Despite this, head coach Matt McIlvane had faith in his lads: “Yesterday we played a lot better than last week in Graz. We’ve also made progress with the younger lineup and expect this consistency in our game tomorrow as well. But we have to move closer together now, try to stay as healthy as possible and then we’ll give everything again.”
The Red Bulls line-up tomorrow will be similar to yesterday’s in Vienna. It remains to be seen how the situation around the sick players will develop. In any case, a large number of established players will have to be compensated for with younger players.
Meanwhile, Salzburg fans will be reunited with long-time Linz figurehead Brian Lebler, who helped the Red Bulls win the championship title in last season’s playoffs. With eleven goals, the veteran has once again put himself at the top of the Linz top scorer list with the seamless shot. By the way, yesterday the Upper Austrians won their home game against HK SŽ Olimpija 3:2 after a penalty shoot-out.
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