On Thursday evening Schalke 04 in the Europa League receives the Austrian top club Red Bull Salzburg. For the guest and reigning champions from Austria, there was already this season a few setbacks and so they could not decide for four of the nine days in the Tipico Bundesliga and the opening game in the European League. The FC Schalke 04 won the contrary, in the first group match against OGC Nice, located after five defeats in the Bundesliga but in the crisis.
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Actually, this season should be a fresh start for FC Schalke 04th With a new manager Christian Heidel was presented; This undertook in person by Markus Weinzierl a new coach to replace Andre Breitenreiter. In addition, with Naldo, Baba, Coke, Bentaleb, Stambouli, Konoplyanka and Embolo came numerous prominent new additions. In the DFB Cup and the Europa League, the opening encounters were also successful, but in the league launched Schalke catastrophic and could not point gain from the first five games record. There were defeats to Frankfurt, Bavaria, Berlin and Cologne. Last Sunday they had a 1: 2 defeat suffered in Hoffenheim. They went through a goal by Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting early lead, but by individual errors by Sascha Riether and Nabil Bentaleb they had to end up beaten.
In the Europa League Schalke won the first match against OGC Nice with 1: 0th The miners impressed against the French over the entire season, with their defensive line was very safe. By late goals from Baba Rahman rewarded them with the first three points. Personnel could change his starting again coach Markus Weinzierl. A wider squad has Weinzierl many variations. Coke, Uchida, and Avdijaj Tepketey drop out through injury.
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FC Red Bull Salzburg is in the Tipico Bundesliga after three matchdays second place. They have a record of 5 wins / 3 draws / 1 defeat with a goal difference of 17:. 6 The defeat was already on the opening day against Sturm Graz, which are located on the pole position. RB Salzburg is on home soil stronger than away, where there was only to get two wins in five games for them. Last matchday there was for them a scoreless Points shared in Altach. There they were the superior team, but managed not to score. In this season’s games were often door arm with Salzburger participation and so fell in five of nine games less than three goals. Twice they played 0: 0th
After 0: 1 on the opening day against FK Krasnodar Red Bull Salzburg is in the Europa League already under pressure. they could not afford at this early stage and in a strong group with Nice, Schalke and Krasnodar Another defeat. So it must establish a performance increase over the opening game, in which they could not offset despite 20 minutes of power play. Due to injury, missing coach Oscar Garcia for the game against FC Schalke 04 Andre Wisdom, Christian Schwegler and Smail Prevljak.