“There are days when it’s better to stay in bed,” commented the ORF colleague. Can Alak wanted to sink into the ground himself after he stumbled over Oliver Filip’s Stangl pass in front of the empty goal in the 61st minute and threw away the thousand percent chance. When Daniel Madlener took him off the field in the 81st minute and replaced him with Fischer, there was no scolding, just consoling encouragement from the coach.
After a first half in which Austria Lustenau actually took the lead far too quickly – Cham tricked three defenders to make it 1-0 in the 15th minute, Texeira converted a penalty misplaced by the referee on the penalty spot in the 33rd minute – the forwards showed a completely new face after the restart. Lustenau made it 3-0 (Anderson, 52′) after Alem Pasic and Ikenna Ezeala missed two top chances in the Vorarlberg penalty area to write on the scoreboard. Then came Alak’s mishap – and Oliver Filip’s goal in the 77th minute was probably too late to turn the game around. Luca Mayr-Fälten then had the goal to make it 2:3 in the 77th minute, but Lustenau’s goalie Schierl won the duel with the striker.
The defeat is neither a broken leg nor a mental kink for Vorwarts: “Lustenau was more effective, that was the difference today,” analyzed Madlener. In the table,Vorwarts remains fourteenth above the relegation zone line.
Source: Nachrichten
