Prokop, "We will do everything for three points in Graz"

"No matter who we go to or who comes to us, we absolutely need three points to reach our goal," says Prokop before the duel with the fourth in the standings, which are three and a half points ahead of us. "We travel to Graz to make three points. We will do everything for that," he promises.

"Statistics do not matter on the pitch"

The ‘Violets’ have eliminated the cup winner 2018 in the second round of the cup (2-0 on September 26^th 2018 in Vienna), but only got a single point from three league games in 2018/19. However, Prokop hardly cares about the past. "Statistics don’t matter on the pitch," he looks ahead.

It also matters to him that the "Blackies" made points in away games but not in front of their own audience during the championship round. They lost against SKN St. Pölten (0-1), WAC (1-2) and LASK (2-3). Austria Wien wants to continue this series in round eight of the championship group.

"Wanting the victory more than your opponent"

"For us it means to push back and to want the victory more than Graz," emphasises the 21-year-old, who gained self-confidence with a fantastic volley against Salzburg, with almost 89 km/h from 21 meters and scored the 1-0 lead.

"I would have preferred not to score any goals and win the game," says Prokop after his 90^th competitive game for the ‘Violets’ (13 goals / 8 assists) and his first league goal after almost a year. Incidentally, on May 27^th, 2018, he also scored against Salzburg (4-0 in Wiener Neustadt).

"Courage as against Salzburg and take advantage of opportunities"

Speaking of Salzburg: Prokop and Co. have worked through the 1-2 home defeat against the old and new champion and take a lot of positive things to Graz. "If we show such a courageous performance as against Salzburg and use our chances, we can take three points."

"We played very well against Salzburg for 80 minutes, played out some chances in the first half and allowed little. Losing so much in the last ten minutes with two deflected shots is extremely painful," says our scorer.

Prokop says that they didn’t reward good performances with more after the change of coach in the spring. In the upcoming "finals" in Graz and then on May 19^th against WAC (5pm/ Generali-Arena) the ‘Violets’ want to do everything for a positive end of the season.

Prokop is our last scorer against Sturm Graz

Maybe Prokop will score again in the Merkur Arena against Sturm. After Kevin Friesenbichler went to WAC during the winter, the midfielder is our only squad player who has scored against Graz in the four games so far. On September 26^th, 2018 in Vienna "Domi" secured the 2-0 in the second ÖFB-Cup round.

During the last purple success in Graz, the 2-0 on April 7^th, 2018, Prokop was missing because of adductor problems. This time, Prokop is fit, as he proved against the freshly crowned champion RB Salzburg. That had not been the case between the two last games against SKN. "I was ill, did not train for two days," says the right footer, who played the whole game during the 2-2 in Vienna, but only came into the game at the end against St. Pölten.

Austria Wien lost the last away match in Graz 0-1. Cristian Cuevas had seen the red card in the 31^st minute. It was the first game of Robert Ibertsberger as head coach on March 17^th, 2019.

The most recent meeting of the two traditional clubs on April 7^th, 2019, ended with another 0-1 defeat in Vienna and a total of seven yellow cards (4-3 for Sturm Graz).

Lieber Austria-Fan!

Sie haben sich im Zuge der Aktion „FK Austria Wien - ViolaCrowd – Arena Baumeister“ am Stadionbau der neuen GENERALI-Arena beteiligt und haben damit unter anderem auch Anspruch auf eine Gratis-Stadiontour erworben.

Es freut mich, Ihnen einen weiteren Termin für solch eine Stadiontour bekanntgeben zu können:

Termin:

• 18. Mai 2019, 16.00 Uhr

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