New brooms don’t always sweep well. SV Ried realized this on Saturday in the 28th round of the Bundesliga. The Innviertler lost 0:2 at the debut of the new coach Christian Heinle at the start of the second half of the season in the qualifying group of the WSG Tirol in Innsbruck. While the Watteners took a big step towards staying up and now have a six-point lead over bottom Altach, the Heinle squad is in the middle of a relegation battle.
Thomas Sabitzer (67th) and Julius Ertlthaler (86th) scored the goals for the hosts in the Tivoli Stadium. The WSG now has 21 points and can have justified hopes for first place in the qualifying group, while Ried remains on 18 points and is fourth, three points ahead of Altach.
Heinle, who, in contrast to the autumn, is not interim but SVR head coach, only made one change in terms of personnel: Compared to the 2:3 home defeat against WSG a week ago, which ultimately proved fatal to coach Robert Ibertsberger, Stefan returned Nutz returned to the starting XI after his suspension. Dorgeles Nene took a seat on the bench for this. On the other hand, WSG coach Thomas Silberberger did not have the top scorer Giacomo Vrioni, who was suspended, and the injured Renny Smith available. Sabitzer and Valentino Müller took their place, Stefan Skrbo was preferred to Tim Prica.
The “newcomers” set the first exclamation marks: First, Sabitzer narrowly missed the Rieder goal after an Ogrinec pass (7th), then Samuel Sahin-Radlinger made a strong save against the rushing Müller (11th). On the other side, Ante Bajic headed in from a free kick for a first approach to the Tyrolean goal (19th). Otherwise, the game offered a lot of idleness and little explosiveness. In stoppage time in the first half, Luca Meisl checked the attention of his goalie Sahin-Radlinger (45+1) after a long ball from Fabian Koch, while Bajic ran towards Ferdinand Oswald alone and failed, but was ruled offside.
Half two was also characterized by many shortcomings. Oswald twice risked his neck and neck against Bajic (61′, 64′) after mistakes by the men in front. Just as Ried was coming, the Silberberger squad struck. After a free kick into the wall, the ball hit Sabitzer’s feet, who hit the Tyrolean lead from the edge of the penalty area, low and unstoppable (67′). It was the 21-year-old’s sixth goal of the season, four of which he scored against Rieder (triple pack in a home game on September 25).
The Innviertlers were shocked by the goal they conceded and could hardly achieve anything offensively. In contrast to the WSG: Substitute Ertlthaler refined a great Müller assist to 2-0 (86th) and celebrated only his second Bundesliga goal. The decision was made. On top of that, Rieds Tin Plavotic saw yellow-red in the 90th minute after repeated foul play. So a lot of work awaits the 37-year-old Heinle, for the Upper Austrians it was the fourth defeat in six games since the point was shared.
Source: Nachrichten
