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As a player with a lot of experience, 'Grüni' knows how to handle bitter moments like the 0-4 or a serious injury and how to fully focus on the challenges ahead. With LASK, the fourth in the standings the next task is waiting for our ‘Violets’.
“LASK has a nice run, a good concept, a good game system,” says Grünwald and emphasizes, “We straightened up the guys this week - we believe in ourselves.”
They will go to Pasching with a new, good vigour, give everything to bring home three points, to be able to climb up in the standings. Our offensive midfielder hopes for the fifth victory in the seventh match under head Coach Thomas Letsch.
During the week, the coaching team rebuilt the team mentally. On Monday, the derby was analysed, the team was off on Tuesday to get some distance, regenerate and recharge.
“On Wednesday, everyone was feeling better again, and hot for points,” says Grünwald, who of course, like everyone, “was very disappointed a day or two after the game”. He came into the game on Sunday in the 77th minute for David de Paula and returned to the Bundesliga after an eight month break due to an injury.
The game against LASK is still a little early for a starting line-up comeback for Grünwald. “I have to make sure to reach a good fitness level again. Everyone knows that if you've been injured for so long, it takes a while to get fit. That is quite normal,” the left footer admits.
But the 13 minutes against the city rivals, he has already collected, help him reach a hundred percent. “This is how I get more and more confidence. It will take a while until I am back to who I used to be,” says the captain after surgery in his right knee (cartilage damage) in August 2017, followed by rehab.
His involuntary Bundesliga break began on August 6th 2017 during the away game (2-2) against Rapid, where he had to leave in the 79th minute, and ended on May 4th 2018 in the home game against the city rivals. After a test game against the violet U18 in March and two ‘Ostliga’ games with the young ‘Violets’, the Carinthian returned to the A-Team.
“The knee is already fine. I am glad that I am back,” he said after his brief appearance with the pros last Sunday.
In the TGW Arena, where RB Salzburg lost 1-0 and Austria Wien won 2-2 last time, the ‘Violets’ have to show another side again. With Tarkan Serbest, Raphael Holzhauser (both were suspended) two regular players return to the team.
A European Cup starting place for which fifth place in the standings is enough, is not yet out of reach for the ‘Violets’. Six rounds before the end of the season, seven points separate us from fifth-placed FC Admira, 18 points are still to be awarded.
“We have to win our games and don’t think too much about Europe. We just have to make points. If we do not, it will be difficult. That's why it's all about looking from game to game and gathering as many points as we can,” says Grünwald about the motto for the final sprint.
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