Salzburg won their first CL game: 3-1 at Feyenoord

Despite major personnel concerns and poor performances in recent weeks, the Bulls celebrated a deserved 3-1 (1-0) win at Feyenoord Rotterdam on Wednesday and could have initiated a turnaround. Salzburg’s first CL goals of the season were scored by Karim Konate (45th + 2, 58th) and Daouda Guindo (86th), Konate even missed a triple from the penalty spot (85th).

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Feyenoord’s goal by Anis Moussa (81st) came too late, Salzburg climbed to 30th place in the table at half-time with three points. This means that the hoped-for promotion to the play-off of the best 24 is at least theoretically still possible. However, given the opponents Bayer Leverkusen (November 26th/away), Paris Saint-Germain (December 10th/home), Real Madrid (January 22nd, 2025/a) and finally Atletico Madrid (January 29th/h), you are literally facing one gigantic challenge in the sense of the word.

Salzburg’s performance went against all expectations. Apart from the lack of results, the guests’ starting position was extremely bad. Lijnders had to play almost an entire team due to injuries, illnesses and the suspension of goalie Alexander Schlager, but once again rolled the dice well. Among other things, Nicolas Capaldo was assigned to the left-back position, while a completely new three-man chain of Bobby Clark, Lucas Gourna-Douath and Mamady Diambou worked in midfield.

Trauner initiated Feyenoord’s first chance

But the “Notelf” quickly forgot this attribute. Feyenoord started much better and had two good moments. First, defensive calm pole Trauner opened up a chance for striker Ibrahim Osman with one of his precise passes (3rd), a little later Janis Blaswich, replacing the suspended Alexander Schlager, was there against Paixao (8th). But Salzburg quickly found its way into the game and subsequently kept it completely open.

The guests’ pressing and counter-pressing worked much better than in previous weeks, and the Dutch were hardly able to come into their own. And even if nothing really dangerous resulted from the numerous ball wins, they still managed to take the deserved lead shortly before the break. Of course, it took a miserable ejection from Feyenoord goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther. Oscar Gloukh finally fed Konate with a cross, who, completely alone, headed in from short distance.

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