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After the miserable start to the championship round, LASK finally won a game again with a 4-0 win at home against Sturm Graz on Wednesday. Coach Valerien Ismael is sure that his team has now achieved the “turnaround”. What can Linz still achieve in the last five games of the championship round? Will the six-point deduction remain for Upper Austria or will it still be canceled?
On Sunday evening, the athletes will once again face the Grazers. This time you meet in the Merkur Arena. The odds comparison of the betting base shows that once again the bookmakers see the clear favorite role among the Linzers. The betting base believes that the Linzers have really started rolling again and thus bet in the game Sturm Graz vs. Let her tip on an away win.
Sturm Graz:
With 32 points from 22 games, the sports club Sturm Graz made it into the championship round as fifth in the table. This fifth rank, which is synonymous with the Europa League playoff games, is also the goal of the team of head coach Nestor El Maestro. But for this, the men from Styria have to increase significantly. Even in the regular season, the Blackies lacked any consistency.
In the master group, the balance after the 0: 4 bankruptcy in Linz is four defeats and only one win. It started after the Corona break with a 1: 2 in the Merkur Arena against the WAC. Then followed with the 0: 4 at Rapid and the 1: 5 at home against Salzburg two bitter bankruptcies. The only victory was the 2-1 in Hartberg. As is often the case with coach El Maestro, Sturm’s game in the championship round is too safety-oriented.
This style of play is then at the expense of the offensive. The attackers from Graz are far too harmless and lacking in ideas. 41 goals scored are negative in the championship playoffs. But against Vienna, Red Bull and the LASK there was also a lot of confusion in defense. In Linz, the guests conceded three goals on Wednesday according to standard situations.
Currently, the gap to fifth place is only one point. But now it’s time for a home game again. In 13 games in its own stadium, Graz managed just four wins. Away from home, the SK had always been stronger this season than at home. This tendency does not give much hope that Sturm Graz vs. Lask a tip on a home win could lead to success.
In addition, the people of Graz also have to deal with a procedure. Head coach Nestor El Maestro was suspended for four games due to unsportsmanlike conduct and insult to the referee. Now the coach faces an even harsher punishment, because he is said to have banned his sports manager Andreas Schicker from playing at the game in Hartberg. At the moment, the team is represented by assistant coach Nikon El Maestro, brother of the head coach, on the bench.
LASK:
What had the Linz Athletics Sports Club played for a great season? The Upper Austrian had ended the regular season as leader of the table with a six point lead over the series champion Red Bull Salzburg and could dream of the second championship after 1965. But then came the Corona break, in which the Linzers made a serious mistake.
Although all teams in the Bundesliga were only allowed to train in small groups and without physical contact until a week before the league restarted, the LASK had previously completed normal team training a few times. This unfair behavior was punished with a deduction of six points. The club has appealed against this decision.
Nevertheless, black and white have already harmed themselves with the campaign. Up until last Wednesday the team of coach Valerien Ismael could only get one point from the first four games of the championship round. After the affair, the athletes all seemed to have lost their lightness. The offense seemed to strain the souls and bodies of the players.
So you lost the first game of the championship round against TSV Hartberg 1: 2. It also lost to Rapid Vienna and RB Salzburg. Against Wolfsberg, Linz even managed a 2-0 lead in the end only to 3: 3. But on Wednesday the LASK had to face the troubled Grazer at home. With a clear and well-deserved 4-0 home win against Sturm Graz, the Upper Austrians could have done the “turnaround”.
After the success against Graz coach Ismael spoke of the “attack mode”. The hope of catching up is alive again. With the deduction of points, the LASK would be seven points behind the second place, which entitles to participate in the Champions League qualification. But the six-point deduction is withdrawn if it were only one point on Rapid Vienna and six on Salzburg.
In any case, the master train seems to have left. The coach does not want to look at the table at the moment. He’s only interested in the next game. Here the athletes want to confirm their great away balance from the regular season. With eleven wins in eleven league games, the club had set a new record. If LASK can build on this, Sturm Graz vs. Lask a prediction of a guest’s success makes perfect sense.
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