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Last weekend in Austrian football was dominated by the quarter-finals of the cup, on Tuesday and Wednesday the ball will roll again in the Bundesliga. The basic round is slowly coming to an end and there are only seven games left before the points are divided. The top game on Tuesday evening is the duel between runner-up Rapid Wien and Wolfsberg.
The top four in the league can already plan with the top play-off. The last two places will be fought for in the coming days and weeks. Right in the middle of this fight are the current Euro-Fighters from Wolfsberg, who are currently in sixth place in the Austrian Bundesliga table. The hosts from Vienna-Hütteldorf are the first bulls pursuing and are only one point behind the team from the city of Mozart.
Since the march protégés are only in action on Wednesday, Rapid beckons a temporary lead in the table if they win. The game in the Allianz Stadium starts on Tuesday at 19:30 p.m.
Rapid Vienna :
The short winter break was extremely important for the Austrian record champions SK Rapid Wien. In the autumn, Didi Kühbauer’s team crawled on the gums due to the high stress and some worries about injuries. For a long time, the good results concealed the poor performance, but as the season continued, the Austrian record champions had to cope with more and more setbacks.
The hospital has thinned out a bit in the last few weeks and with a fully charged battery, the team from Hütteldorf is once again playful. The start of the year 2021 could not have been better, because the Kühbauer-Elf completed the first English week in 2021 with the maximum points of nine points LASK had two absolute top duels. The green-whites celebrated their third victory against SKN Sankt Pölten.
The only downer is the fact that goalkeeper Richard Strebinger had to reach behind him once in all three games. However, the offensive is currently shining with a lot of wit. Didi Kühbauer had to do without top striker Taxiarchis Fountas for the last time against the WAC, but Ercan Kara in particular is in great shape in 2020/21.
Rapid Wien scored eight goals in the first three games in 2021. With better exploitation of chances, a few more goals would have been possible. In terms of play, things are going very well at the moment, but the away win at LASK also showed that the talented players can take on the fight without any problems. The LASK accusation that the ball is only hit high forward was frustrated by a large portion. It’s the mix that counts and Rapid can currently implement this very well.
Wolfsberg :
The surprise team of the last two years is still trembling this season about qualifying for the top play-off in the Austrian Bundesliga. After 15 of 22 rounds in the regular round of the Austrian Bundesliga, the team from Lavanttal is sixth in the table, but the lead over the recently up-and-coming Wiener Austria is only three points. In addition, the SKN Sankt Pölten still expects small chances of the big surprise.
In contrast to Rapid Vienna, the Feldhofer-Elf did not have free play at the weekend, because the quarter-finals of the cup competition were already on the program on Friday evening. The WAC against second division Kapfenberg (who fight to stay in the league there) was a big favorite, but only partially lived up to this role. Despite a tour by veteran Michael Liendl, the WAC did not bring any calm into the game.
30 additional minutes were certainly not planned due to the upcoming tasks. After all, defensive player Michael Novak was able to prevent the “penalty shoot-out” lottery in the 119th minute with his goal to make it 2-1. In the semifinals, the WAC receives LASK at the beginning of March and can continue to dream of the first big title in the club’s history.
A home game is not necessarily an advantage, because the Feldhofer-Elf feels visibly more comfortable in a foreign country in 2020/21. This is also a great glimmer of hope in the duel with the form-strong team from Hütteldorf. The WAC celebrated six victories of the season this season, five of which were celebrated on foreign turf. The WAC only suffered away defeats at LASK (1: 3) and WSG Tirol (1: 4).
In addition to the away record, high hopes are placed in captain Michael Liendl in particular. The Vorarlberger has developed into an absolute “rapid specialist” in recent years. In the last six games between Rapid Wien and WAC, he scored two goals and also provided six assists for the Carinthians.
Rapid Vienna vs Wolfsberger AC head to head matches
25.10.20 BUN Wolfsberger AC Rapid Vienna 3 : 4
05.07.20 BUN Wolfsberger AC Rapid Vienna 3 : 1
14.06.20 BUN Rapid Vienna Wolfsberger AC 2 : 1
07.03.20 BUN Wolfsberger AC Rapid Vienna 2 : 2
20.10.19 BUN Rapid Vienna Wolfsberger AC 1 : 1