Tomorrow Franco Foda denies his departure as ÖFB team boss against Scotland. So far only 4500 tickets have been sold. The players are also concerned with the topics of “team boss search” and “future game direction”. So Stefan Lainer said: “There is not only Red Bull or non-Red Bull, there is so much in between. It would be too easy to say, we have many Red Bull players, we only play pressing. There is such a thing many variations of pressing.”
ÖFB sports director Peter Schöttel recently identified a group formation between the players who come from the Vienna area and the Red Bull faction in an interview. Lainer: “It doesn’t make much sense with Red Bull and small groups and it’s not that easy. Many players played there at different times. That’s why there are differences here.” However, the statements also missed the point a bit. The dominant position of Marko Arnautovic, Aleksandar Dragovic and David Alaba has less to do with the direction of the game than with the internal structure.
According to Schöttel, there are also differences in the orientation between the Salzburg pressing and the ball possession football preferred by Arnautovic & Co. Lainer sees it differently. “One doesn’t exclude the other. It’s about getting the most out of each player’s abilities.”
Positive corona test
ÖFB team player Louis Schaub has to be quarantined immediately after a positive corona test and will therefore be canceled for tomorrow’s test against Scotland. The 27-year-old has very mild symptoms. The entire team and the support staff were then also subjected to several tests, all of which were negative. Before that, there had been no positive case in the ÖFB team.
Source: Nachrichten
