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After the brilliant performance of the Austrian national team against Slovenia on Tuesday for the second international match of this year against Luxembourg. At Josy Barthel Stadium, the national stadium of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which seats around 8,000 spectators, the two national teams meet. Both Luxembourg and Austria travel with a sense of achievement behind them. Luxembourg won 1-0 against Malta, Austria overcame neighbors Slovenia 3-0. The Austrian guests are the clear favorite in this duel – anything but a win would be a big surprise.
In the history so far there were five direct duels of these two nations, which all Austria could decide for themselves. The last meeting was in 2004, where Austria won 4: 1.
Luxembourg:
Despite the clear outsider role, the national team of Luxembourg hopes to be able to keep up with Austria – and not without reason. After all, the team of coach Luc Holtz could win the last two games. Against Malta, there was a 1-0 victory and against the quite stronger to estimate the Hungarians fought in November 2017, a very surprising 2-1 success. In October of the previous year also succeeded in a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria. So the team is already holding in a small series of three unbeaten games. But that was not all. Probably the largest coup of recent history was achieved in early September 2017, where the team against the footballing superpower France a sensational 0: 0 brought. France was not in a position to break the defensive bulwark of the Luxembourg in this game and finally had to accept this disgrace.
It should be noted, however, that between these sensational successes of the team also bitter defeats einschlichen. After the sensation against France, for example, followed by a 0-8 defeat against Sweden. The team of Luc Holtz showed in the recent past so two very different faces – it will be interesting to see with what face the team against Austria.
Austria:
The second win in the second game for the neo-national coach Franco Foda. After the 2-1 victory against Uruquay last year in the debut of Foda was followed by a very convincing 3-0 win against neighbors Slovenia. With a new tactical corset over that of the old coach, Marcel Koller, the national team knew how to convince. In a 3-4-3 formation and an intense pressing of the Austria, Slovenia finally had no chance to get something countable. A fantastic free-kick from David Alaba and a brace from Marko Arnautovic ensured a clear victory. The team was very compact and also came on the offensive to numerous opportunities.
Overall, the Austrian squad is well occupied in all positions. As Franco Foda announced ahead of the game against Slovenia, Luxembourg will take on a different starting formation than in the previous game. Certainly the two full-back positions will be filled again. David Alaba and Stefan Lainer were allowed to leave the team, to regenerate for the last club matches this season again. Both had completed a very intensive program in recent weeks with Bayern Munich and RB Salzburg. Also Maximilian Wöber will not run for the A-team, he was sent to the U21 team to help out in central defense. There are struck before the EURO Qualfikationspiel against Macedonia Philipp Lienhart and Dario Maresić and could possibly not be used. With Andreas Ulmer and Moritz Bauer, however, good replacement for the outside positions is waiting.
Luxembourg vs Austria head to head matches
28.04.04 FI Austria Luxembourg 4 : 1
15.10.75 EUR Austria Luxembourg 6 : 2
16.03.75 EUR Luxembourg Austria 1 : 2
29.09.57 WC Luxembourg Austria 0 : 3
30.09.56 WC Austria Luxembourg 7 : 0