2:2 - Austria have to accept a late equaliser against LASK

Outstanding goals by Matthias Braunöder and Reinhold Ranftl gave the Veilchen a 2:0 lead in the second half. However, LASK managed to score the equaliser through Keito Nakamura and Florian Flecker in the 90th minute.

Head coach Michael Wimmer made only one change to his starting eleven for the start of the championship group: Reinhold Ranftl returned to the team after his suspension, Marvin Martins started again in central defence, Matteo Meisl took a seat on the bench.

At LASK, coach Dietmar Kühbauer changed his line-up in three positions: Alexander Schlager returned to goal after his cold in the game against Hartberg, Marin Ljubičić started in the centre of attack instead of Mustapha. In midfield, Talovierov was replaced by Michorl.

Linz scored but were offside - 0:0 at the break

The visitors from Linz had more of the game at the beginning and scored the supposed 0:1 in the 5th minute, but after several minutes of VAR checking, Marin Ljubičić's goal did not count due to a narrow offside position. Ljubičić had another chance after a corner by Peter Michorl, but shot over the goal from close range (16.). Dominik Fitz fired the first shot of the Violets, also over the box (20.). Alexander Schlager had a hard time deflecting Lukas Mühl's effort for a corner (21.), a long shot by Robert Zulj bounced off the bar and back into the field of play (26.). Manfred Fischer missed in the 28th minute before LASK scored their second offside goal in minute 30 through Keito Nakamura - again the goal did not count.

Until half-time, both teams could not create any goal chances worth mentioning, a rather mediocre game went into the break with 0:0.

Eventful second half with two goals each

At half-time, Manuel Polster came on for Doron Leidner, and the game continued to be a bit tense. But in the 58th minute, 10,000 spectators in the Generali Arena were able to cheer. Dominik Fitz took a corner to the middle, Philipp Ziereis cleared the ball with his head, Matthias Braunöder took a full shot with his left foot and scored the 1:0 dream goal! Only four minutes later, the Violette goal anthem sounded again in the stadium. Manfred Fischer won the ball in midfield, Reinhold Ranftl outran a LASK defender and slammed the ball into the corner of the net from 18 metres - 2:0 in the 62nd minute!

A shot by Polster was saved by Schlager (68th), before Linz could reduce the score to 2:1. Keito Nakamura scored the equaliser. Christian Früchtl saved against Mustapha in a 1-on-1. Michael Wimmer replaced Dominik Fitz and Matthias Braunöder with Andreas Gruber and Nikola Dovedan. Mustapha had another good chance, but was successfully pushed away (82nd). On the other side Luckeneder blocked a finish by Gruber for a corner (86.).

In the 90th minute Austria had to accept the equaliser, Florian Flecker scored with his head after a cross from Rene Renner to make it 2:2. In the end Austria had to settle for a 2:2 draw.

FK Austria Wien - LASK 2:2 (0:0)

Austria: Früchtl; Handl, Martins, Mühl; Ranftl (90.+6 Teigl), Braunöder (85. Dovedan), Jukić, Lei

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