0-1 – disappointing home defeat against Sturm Graz

Coach Robert Ibertsberger left his team unchanged despite the defeat in Salzburg.

Sturm Graz lost 0-1 against SKN St. Pölten last week, coach Roman Mählich made two changes to his starting eleven: Dario Maresic fell ill and was not able to play, Juan Dominguez celebrated his debut in midfield. Anastasios Avlonitis started in the back instead of Fabian Koch.

Quick first half without goals

Austria Wien started aggressively, put the guests from Styria under pressure early on. Dominik Prokop just barely missed the ball after a cross by Florian Klein (5'). Shortly after, the captain made a shot from the penalty area, Jörg Siebenhandl caught the ball safely (6'). Uroš Matić also tried a long-range shot which was deflected towards the corner by Avlonitis. Michael Madl brought the corner-kick by the Serb towards the goal, but the ball was too high (25').

Florian Klein was a little surprised by a cross by Prokop and was not able control the ball well enough. In return, Stefan Hierländer appeared alone in front of Patrick Pentz, the Austria Wien goalie made the save (31'). A free-kick by Matić was cleared to the corner by Siebenhandl (33'). Max Sax came to a finish after a free-kick by Igor out of his own half, Siebenhandl fished the shot from the short corner (45'+1'), the half-time break started without any goals.

Lovric scores the winning goal

Dominik Prokop opened the second half with a solo through the penalty area, his finish landed in the outer net (54'), Michael Lema shot just past the far corner after a counterattack by Graz (55'). Christoph Martschinko made his way through on the left, bringing the ball to the centre, where Bright Edomwonyi failed from close range on Jörg Siebenhandl - the best chance for the 'Violets' (59').

Martschinko was forced to leave the pitch due to injury shortly after. Manprit Sarkaria took over his position. Alexander Grünwald came into the game for Max Sax. Prokop was falsely whistled back because of an offside position after a great pass by Grünwald (77'). SK Sturm took the lead in the 79^th minute, Sandi Lovric only had to push the ball over the line after an unfortunate defence by Pentz. Ibertsberger responded and brought with Christoph Monschein for Uroš Matić more offensive power. The substitute Markus Pink forgave the chance to the 0-2 for Graz (90'), Austria Wien didn’t have more offensive actions.

FK Austria Wien - SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz 0-1 (0-0)

Austria Wien: Pentz; Madl, Schoissengeyr, Igor; Klein, Jeggo, Matić (80^th Monschau), Martschinko (69' Sarkaria); Sax (72' Grünwald), Edomwonyi, Prokop

Sturm Graz: Siebenhandl; Spendlhofer, Avlonitis, Ljubic; Hierländer, Lovric, Dominguez, Mensah; Lema (60' Jantscher), Grozurek (84' Pink), Kiteishvili (89' F. Koch)

Goal: Lovric (79')

Yellow cards: Sax (45'+2'), Igor (49'), Jeggo (50'); Lema (45'), Spendlhofer (45'), Ljubic (65'), Pink (86')

Generali Arena, referee Christopher Jäger, 10,150 spectators

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