The athletes gave away the lead and thus two points through passivity. “I’m really upset. If you think that one goal is enough and you can manage instead of continuing to step on the gas, that’s not enough,” said LASK trainer Dietmar Kühbauer.
For a long time, his team had the climber firmly under control without developing the necessary determination. Kühbauer: “We have to blame ourselves for the two points we lost. After the 1-0 win, we let everything slide. You can’t afford that.” As in the 1-1 derby against SV Guntamatic Ried last week, LASK did not take the lead over time. Kühbauer: “We were then punished for our passivity with the equalizer. A second goal settled the matter.”
However, referee Andreas Heiss also failed to make the decision: he saw a handball when Robert Zulj scored (57th). Although the TV pictures showed that the ball had probably only bounced to the shoulder, which is legal, the VAR did not even step in to check. The second punishment for the lack of commitment was the 1:1 by Lukas Fridrikas (82nd).
Stojkovic and Jovicic suspended
Immediately after the equalizer, LASK weakened for the home game on Saturday against Tirol: Filip Stojkovic saw yellow/red after complaining too much to Heiss after a foul on a colleague, Branko Jovicic collected his fifth in the eighth game warning of the season. Attacker Marin Ljubicic is serving the second game of his suspension against the Tyroleans.
Source: Nachrichten
