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‘Of course, we want to take the next small step and we can only do it with another win,’ says our defensive allrounder before the game against his former club. However, he urgently warns: ‘It will certainly not be easy and also a very different game than the one against Mattersburg.’
Why? The two teams have very different playing styles. ‘In addition, Admira has found new strengths through their new coach Klaus Schmidt. We can't go with the attitude that we already won. We have to be ready from the first minute,’ Ebner says.
The fact that his former club, with which he became second league champion in 2011 and Bundesliga third a year later, will try everything to win, because they also need every point, is clear to Ebner. ‘They are not a classic club to be last in the standings, they have the quality to be higher up,’ says the 27-year-old.
‘We must be fully concentrated in the BSFZ Arena, realize all our tasks one hundred percent,’ emphasizes Ebner. The pressure to succeed should not be a decisive factor.
‘Yes, in our profession the pressure to succeed is always high. Now and then it is even greater. But we are all professional enough that we can put this issue in the back of our minds and retrieve our performance,’ believes the Violet, who does not look at the standings, but focuses on the next opponent and the point accumulation.
‘Looking at the table does nothing right now. We cannot count on other clubs losing. Our job is to get as many points as possible and to improve our own game.’ Only after the 22nd round the ranking will be evaluated carefully.
Following the match against Admira, the following games await Austria Wien: TSV Hartberg (home game, November 30th/5pm), the Derby (away game, December 8th/5pm) and WAC (home game, December 15th/2:30pm).
‘It has not gone as hoped for us, but our aspiration is to continue trying to be higher up in the standings,’ says Thomas Ebner and promises, ‘For the last games in 2019 we will give everything to preserve our chance at the championship group.’
Ebner is definitely ready for the final spurt in autumn. He proved this at his starting line-up comeback with his first competitive goal for Austria Wien as the second central defensive midfielder next to Jimmy Jeggo. ‘It was a wonderful moment because I scored my first goal in the Generali-Arena as a “Violet”.’
The best part for him was that he could help his team win 2-0. The scorer did so in the style of a striker, scored flat in the left corner with his right foot. ‘I had a lot of time in the penalty area, I saw that there was a lot of space on the left and that's where I took my chance,’ says the 27-year-old.
Thus, he scored his first goal in his 32nd competitive game for Austria Wien. On a side note, the last time he scored against Mattersburg was on September 9th 2017 during the 5-0 for Admira. ‘I hope that my second goal won’t take this too long,’ said Ebner.
Coach Christian Ilzer praised the defensive midfielder: ‘Ebner is a player who always gives the team energy, and during the trainings he always shows that he is ready.’
Ebner was repeatedly slowed down by injuries. On September 22nd (2-0 SCR Altach) when he was knocked out after 15 minutes with a contused laceration and a concussion he couldn't keep going. ‘The problem was an eight-centimetre cut where I had to get stitches and I had to take a two to three-week break,’ says the unlucky fellow, who was only able to play two games in the spring due to groin problems.
But now he is fit again, ready and hopes to continue to show what he can do. The 4-2-3-1 system, with which they were able to come to many dangerous actions against Mattersburg, visibly pleased him and his teammates. ‘We immediately saw that we did quite well,’ says Ebner.
‘It was a good step, we have to keep up with it and improve, so that things like the last 20 minutes against Mattersburg will no longer happen,’ said Ebner, for whom this was not a matter of strength.
Rather, that the team become too passive after 65 or 70 minutes and didn’t put the opponent under pressure enough. ‘We let Mattersburg come into the game more, they had more ball possession and room. We should have remained active until the end, to end the game 3-0 or later 3-1,’ complains Ebner.
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Ausgabe KW 48/2019 |
Erstellt am 28.11.2019 |
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Bundesliga
16. Runde, 30.11.2019, 17:00, Austria Wien – TSV Hartberg
17. Runde, 08.12.2019, 17:00, Auswärtsderby (Tickets im Fanshop erhältlich!)
18. Runde, 15.12.2019, 14:30, Austria Wien – Wolfsberger AC
2. Liga
16. Runde, 29.11.2019, 19:10, Young Violets – Austria Klagenfurt
Frauen-Bundesliga
Winterpause