Offensive efficiency and a strong duel performance were the key to success at LASK for WSG Tirol. The Tyroleans won the duel with the Linzers in the 9th round of the Bundesliga on Saturday in Pasching 4: 1 (3: 1) and thus inflicted the second-placed LASK their first defeat of the season. The big hero was striker Nik Prelec, who scored three goals. Pasching. Keito Nakamura and Prelec got off to a flying start with two goals within the first five minutes. The young Slovenian put the WSG ahead in the 41st minute with his second Bundesliga goal, Lautaro Rinaldi (45+1) then even scored to give the Watteners a 3-1 lead at break. The fourth strike by Thomas Silberberger’s team in the 63rd minute – again by Prelec – was the preliminary decision and in the end it stayed that way. For WSG it was the third win this season and the first after three unsuccessful games.
The fans in the Raiffeisen Arena were treated to something right from the start. First, LASK combined hardly under pressure from the Tyrolean defense, after a Zulj-Fersler, Thomas Goiginger placed across the penalty area on Nakamura, who netted from a short distance in the 3rd minute. But just under three minutes later, Linz were also open at the back. A no-frills attack on the right led to a Rinaldi pass that Prelec sent straight into the opponent’s goal.
The back team of the guests was then indisposed on other occasions. Nakamura (12th), Efthymios Koulouris and Peter Michorl (both 19th) had the 2: 1 for LASK on their feet, but the precision was missing. A Goiginger shot (34th) landed in the arms of Ferdinand Oswald. Surprisingly, it hit the other side before the break – and twice: First, Prelec threw his left foot into Kofi Schulz’s sharp cross in good time, then Rinaldi headed in perfectly after a Müller pass. For the first time in this Bundesliga season, LASK was behind at the break.
The aggressively defending Tyroleans managed to keep the athletes away from the goal for most of the second half. The Prelec show went on up front: the 21-year-old volleyed a Sulzbacher cross, and the number 9 was also a constant source of trouble. Even after his substitution in the 78th minute, the Silberberger team was decisive and didn’t let anything burn. At LASK, the defensive performance and the waste in the second half during the international break will probably be thoroughly analyzed.
LASK – WSG Tirol 1: 4 (1: 3)
Pasching, Raiffeisen Arena, 5,100 spectators, SR Ciochirca.
Gates: 1-0 (2′) Nakamura, 1-1 (5′) Prelec, 1-2 (41′) Prelec, 1-3 (45’+1′) Rinaldi, 1-4 (63′) Prelec
LASK: Schlager – Potzmann, Ziereis, Luckeneder, Renner – Michorl (Zirngast 81), Celic (Horvath 46) – Goiginger, Zulj, Nakamura – Koulouris (Balic 65)
WSG: F. Oswald – Bacher, Behounek, Okungbowa (22nd Stumberger), Schulz – Sulzbacher (86th Ranacher), Müller, Sabitzer (78th Naschberger), Blume – Prelec (78th Forst), Rinaldi (78th Prica)
Yellow cards: Celic or Sulzbacher
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Source: Nachrichten
