Austria Wien welcomes TSV Hartberg to the Generali-Arena on Saturday at 17:00. We are looking forward to 10,000 visitors. Sporting director Manuel Ortlechner and coach Michael Wimmer talk about the starting situation and give a personnel update.

Sporting director Manuel Ortlechner: "After the first two rounds you can already take stock. In the first round we started well, against Klagenfurt you could already see in many parts where the journey should go. Of course, the result in Lustenau last week was less pleasing. But the analysis showed that we absolutely dominated the game. We had a lot more chances and that should give us hope to continue on our chosen path. Hartberg is not an easy nut to crack - for that we need another very good performance."

Coach Michael Wimmer: "We analysed the Lustenau game and saw that we can play even bolder, more determined and faster forward in the first half in order to get into the box more often and create even more scoring chances. We want to do even better on Saturday. With Hartberg we now have an opponent in front of us who has shown in the last two games that they are in an upward form, but for us it is also clear: we have a home game - and we want to win that."

Staff news

The injured list is unchanged from the previous week. Dominik Fitz (abdominal muscle fibre tear), Georg Teigl (bone marrow oedema), James Holland (muscle injury), as well as the long-term injured Lucas Galvão, Marko Raguž, Muharem Husković, Ziad El Sheiwi & Florian Wustinger are out.

Lucas Galvao has completed his therapy in Salzburg and can train individually on the pitch. Andreas Gruber joined the team training on Thursday and might be an option for the squad on Saturday. Captain Lukas Mühl continues to make progress and was able to participate fully in all training sessions this week: "Lukas Mühl is our captain: If he gives me the signal tomorrow that he is ready for the starting eleven, then Lukas Mühl will play," emphasised Michael Wimmer.