Austria stumbles in Lustenau

Bottom-placed Lustenau took the lead with goals from Pius Grabher and Lukas Fridrikas in the first half, with Tin Plavotić missing a penalty for a potential equaliser. The Violets remained too harmless in offence and Austria from Vienna were beaten 2-0 by their namesake from Vorarlberg.

Dominik Fitz and Johannes Handl were missing due to yellow card suspensions, while Lucas Galvão was ruled out with an adductor problem. Marvin Martins and Matteo Meisl started in defence alongside Tin Plavotić. Marvin Potzmann made his starting XI comeback, playing his 250th Bundesliga match. Hakim Guenouche started on the left in midfield, Frans Krätzig in the centre. In attack, Michael Wimmer relied on Manfred Fischer, Muharem Husković and Andreas Gruber.

Anderson Gomes returned to the Austria Lustenau line-up in the game of last chance following his adductor injury, while Matthias Maak also started in place of Tobias Berger, who was injured at short notice.

Two goals conceded, penalty missed - a first half to forget

Austria from Lustenau had the first chance of the game. Lukas Fridrikas brought the ball into the danger zone after a quick counter-attack, Ben Bobzien took the shot, but Christian Früchtl made an early save. Namory Cisse's follow-up shot missed the target (8'). Pius Grabher tried a shot, but it was no problem for Früchtl (15'). Anderson Gomes had to come off injured early on, with Nico Gorzel replacing the Brazilian.

Lustenau had more of the play and took the lead in the 24th minute with their 6th shot. Grabher scored after Bobzien's assist to make it 1-0. Austria Vienna - still without a shot on goal - were shocked and conceded the next goal three minutes later. This time Fridrikas scored, with Bobzien again providing the assist (27').

The Violets had their first shot on goal in the 31st minute, but Andreas Gruber missed the target. A shot from Bobzien was parried by Früchtl (33'). Fridrikas was then injured and Andreas Heraf had to make another change. Manfred Fischer shot over the goal (43') and in stoppage time of the first half, Muharem Husković was fouled in the penalty area after a beautiful pass from Frans Krätzig. Tin Plavotić stepped up to take the penalty, but was denied by Domenik Schierl in the Vorarlberg goal (45+7'). The centre-back took another shot but missed. The Violets went into the break with a two-goal deficit.

Too harmless in offence

Austria from Vienna made an endeavouring start to the second half, but were still not really dangerous. At the other end, another Lustenau goal was disallowed for offside (54'). Wimmer then made two changes, with Fisnik Asllani and Moritz Wels coming on for Andi Gruber and Marvin Potzmann. Wels shot over the goal in the 65th minute, Lustenau scored the next offside goal through Namory Cisse (75'). Fischer had a good chance with a header from the back, but missed the goal by a wide margin (76').

Sanel Šaljić was handed his Bundesliga debut in the closing stages, while Romeo Vučić and Alexander Schmidt also came on. Guenouche, Plavotić and Husković left the pitch. Vučić fired a free-kick over the goal, Schmidt failed to beat Schierl (88‘, 90’). The Lustenau goalkeeper also parried a shot from Fischer (90+1') and Austria had to make the long journey home from Lustenau without any points.

Austria Lustenau - Austria Wien 2-0 (2-0)

Lustenau: Schierl; Maak, Boateng, Lins; Anderson (17' Gorzel), Tiefenbach, Grabher, Gmeiner; Bobzien (88' Surdanović), Cisse (88' Chato), Fridrikas (40' Rhein)

Austria: Früchtl; Martins, Plavotić (82' Šaljić), Meisl; Ranftl, Potzmann (57' Wels), Krätzig, Guenouche (77' Vučić); Gruber (57' Asllani), Husković (82' Schmidt), Fischer

Goals: Grabher (24'), Fridrikas (27')

Yellow cards: Meisl (69'), Fischer (78')

ImmoAgentur Stadion Bregenz, referee Alexander Harkam, 3,950 spectators