Austria worked out the clearence in Mattersburg

Jens Stryger Larsen suffered from adductor problems and could not play, which helped David de Paula to his first appearance in the starting eleven since August 28th 2016. In the offensive midfield, Felipe Pires returned to his position after his injury.

SV Mattersburg, with five home victories, full of self-confidence started with only one change in the starting line-up. The suspended Malic was represented by Mahrer.

Mattersburg started strong, Austria responded with goals

The initial phase of the game clearly belonged to Mattersburg. Already in minute 2 the hosts emerged dangerously in front of Osman Hadzikic, but the low cross from Röcher did not find a recipient. Shortly after a similar situation: this time Christoph Martschinko defused Atanga’s ball (8'). After a cross from Höller, Bürger hit David de Paula (9'), the “Violets” were increasingly under pressure.

After a quick counterattack over Atanga, Hadzikic refused the Ghanaian's shot, Bürger’s rebound was cleared by Lukas Rotpuller and Alexander Grünwald (18').

FK Austria Wien, who had not yet made an attacking appearance, still took the lead: with a terrible misplaced pass in his own penalty area Mahrer set up the ball for Felipe Pires, who shot to Larry Kayode. Our goal getter finished off immediately with his 11th goal of the season - 1:0 (22').

A header from Bürger after a cross from Erhardt did not pose a problem for Hadzikic (24'), before Jano made another mistake which gave Venuto the chance of the second goal. The Brazilian fooled Mahrer, but his finish missed the goal (25'). A free-kick from Raphael Holzhauser went wide over Kuster’s goal (29'). Alexander Grünwald gave Venuto the next opportunity with a great pass, again the ball went by the post (32').

After Venuto was backed by Erhardt about 25 meters in front of the goal, Grünwald shot the free-kick. The “Mattersburg specialist” scored perfectly in the top corner - 0:2 (45'). Hadzikic defused a lob from Röcher (45' + 1'), the “Violets” went into the cabin with a nice lead.

Pires sealed the deal

Mattersburg coach Gerald Baumgartner brought Maierhofer as a second striker for Perlak into the game, thus the hosts had a little more of the game. However, the “Violets” had the first opportunity of the second half: a fast free-kick from Holzhauser landed with Kayode, whose shot went over the goal (50'). The second half remained without any chances for a long time, Mattersburg came to some harmless header chances and FK Austria Wien played the fast counterblasts not consistently enough.

Another chance came only in minute 69, when Kuster saved a finish from Venuto. Pires tried a solo with a long shot, which was not strong enough (71'). A few minutes later, however, the winger did better when he finished a beautiful counterattack over David de Paula and Venuto to the preliminary decision - 0:3 (75').

The game was decided, Kayode failed on Kustner with a header after a cross from Venuto (78'). Martschinko cleared lying against Maierhofer (84'). Raphael Holzhauser tried to surprise Kuster with a shot from great distance, but missed the goal. Thorsten Fink made three exchanges in the final minutes, Marko Kvasina, Mohammed Kadiri and Kevin Friesenbichler came to short appearances. Kvasina missed the last chance of the game (90'+1'). FK Austria Wien came out of their small crisis in Mattersburg and landed on third place in the tipico-Bundesliga table.

SV Mattersburg - FK Austria Wien 0:3 (0:2)

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