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The Watten team beat Austria Lustenau 3-2 (2-0) away in the seventh round on Sunday, celebrating their first win of the season and catching up with Vienna Austria and Blau-Weiß Linz on points. The bottom team from Vorarlberg, on the other hand, still has only two points and has lost all four home games this season.
Kofi Schulz (38th) and Nik Prelec (42nd) ensured a seemingly comfortable lead for the WSG at the break. The Lustenauers hit back thanks to a brace from Anthony Schmid (50th, 56th) before Lukas Sulzbacher scored the decisive goal for the guests (62nd).
For a long time there had been no sign of such a goal spectacle. There were no highlights to be seen in the Reichshofstadion for the time being, the only time there was any excitement when Julius Ertlthaler’s WSG goal was rightly disallowed for offside (6th).
Things got faster in the minutes before the half-time whistle. After a long throw-in from Sulzbacher, the ball landed at Schulz, who volleyed from the five-pointer and made it 1-0 for the Tyroleans. Two minutes later, Mahamadou Diarra ran alone towards the Lustenau goal, but narrowly missed. The 2-0 victory for coach Thomas Silberberger’s team resulted from what was at that point the best action of the game: Ertlthaler played a free ball to Alexander Ranacher, who took the ball directly to the middle. There, Matthäus Taferner heeled off for Prelec, and the striker was successful with a sit-on.
Austria coach Markus Mader reacted at half-time with a triple substitution and his team came out of the locker room transformed. Suddenly the home team developed the pressure that had been sorely missed before the break, and the reward promptly followed. First, Schmid prevailed against Ranacher and netted between the legs of WSG goalie Adam Stejskal, who was replaced injured a short time later. Shortly afterwards, Schmid provided the next highlight with a magnificent side kick into the far corner.
However, in the exuberance of having made up the two-goal deficit, the Lustenauers were able to counterattack. Sulzbacher played a one-two with Prelec and put the Tyroleans back in the lead. After that, the Ländle club was no longer able to improve and thus prolonged its false start to the new season.
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