Austria Leading WAC by Six Points with Five Rounds to Go – Playoff Chances Looking Good

2024-04-22 12:58:13

Half of the final round has been played, Austria is leading the WAC by six points with five rounds to go and Altach by nine. The chances of taking part in the playoffs (part one on May 21st) are good. In the next few weeks the violets will play against each opponent in the qualifying group again:

“It’s important that we keep our foot on the accelerator, continue to be greedy, don’t look at the table at all and go into every game to win it. We also want to play for a win in Tyrol,” emphasizes coach Michael Wimmer, who was very satisfied with the performance in the 3-0 home win against Thomas Silberberger’s team for a long time:

“Apart from brief periods in the second half, we played a good game and deserved to win. The running values ​​were very good – then things went better in terms of play. But there were also things that we didn’t really like that we wanted to put down in Tyrol on Tuesday. You could also see on Saturday that Tirol is a good team – at one point when the score was 2-0 they were pushing for a goal. We know they are dangerous. I think that they will go into the game with a bit of anger in their stomachs because of the defeat,” says Michael Wimmer.

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(muscular problems) and Lucas Galvão (adductors) are slightly injured and remain in Vienna. Return for that Marvin Martins, who missed the home game against WSG Tirol with an injury, returned to the team. With Aleksa Ilić
(19), a central defender from the Young Violets is also moving up due to the failures in defense: “He has been training with the fighting team for the last 14 days and has earned his place in the squad,” says coach Michael Wimmer.

Luca Pazourek felt a stitch in the back of his thigh during the final training session on Monday and is out. striker Noble Asllani is back in the squad for the first time since his injury in January. For Marvin Potzmann If a deployment came too early, he would be out, as would the long-term injured Marko Raguž, Ziad El Sheiwi and Florian Wustinger.