2:0 – home victory against LASK Linz

The FAK family had to face bad news before the game - Alexander Grünwald will be out of action during the fall season with cartilage damage. Dominik Prokop took his place in the offensive midfield. After the draw in Hütteldorf this remained the only change in Thorsten Fink's starting team.

The promoted team from Linz brought former “Violet” James Holland, this time as an internal defendant. Coach Oliver Glasner trusted the team of last week’s 2-0 victory against SKN St. Pölten.

Goalless first half

The game started curiously with a substitution, Rene Gartler had to be replaced with Marko Raguz after only a few minutes due to muscular problems. The “Violets” dominated the initial phase, Ismael Tajouri-Shradi missed the first chance after seven minutes after a corner, Pervan was on the spot. Kevin Friesenbichler came one step too late to a cross by Dominik Prokop (18'). Osman Hadzikic prevented the visitors' first goal, our goalkeeper parried a shot from Rep (19'). Tajouri-Shradi came to a finish, but his shot was too central (22').

LASK came into the game now. Rep suddenly appeared alone in front of Hadzikic after a nice pass from Erdogan, "Ossi" kept the upper hand in the one-on-one battle (27'). The duel between Rep and Hadzikic went on, Hadzikic's struggled with the Slovenian’s next shot. Rep’s follow-up shot went over the bar (39', 40'). With the goalless draw, it went into the half-time break.

Friesenbichler and Pires ensure the victory

The second round also began with a goal chance for LASK, Heiko Westermann saved after a counter-attack against Rep (47'). Kevin Friesenbichler played better on the other side: after wonderful ground work by Raphael Holzhauser, Friesenbichler left Pervan no chance - 1:0 (60').

Tajouri-Shradi missed the goal (65') after a nice combination over several stops. Dominik Prokop left the field after 71 minutes, Thorsten Fink sent David de Paula onto the pitch. The “Violets” had the game under control after the lead. A shot by David de Paula went over the goal (84') a finish by Tajouri-Shradi after ground work by Felipe Pires was cleared by Luckeneder (86').

James Holland injured himself and had to leave the game - however Glasner had already used all his exchanges and LASK had to end the game with 10 men. Nevertheless, Linz came to more goal chances: Osman Hadzikic parried shots by Goiginger and Riemann without any problems and saved a shot from Ranftl after a cross from Ullmann (89').

LASK threw everything including their goalkeeper in the front, but Felipe Pires sealed the deal in minute 95 – after build-up by Christoph Monschein the Brazilian scored into Linz’ empty goal – 2:0.

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

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