Before the EL duel: Kühbauer would have "easier to imagine" to start

Variety for the difficult daily life of the league: While Rapid suffered its next Bundesliga defeat at LASK this weekend, the chances of surviving the Europa League group stage are still intact. However, the Hütteldorfer could not lose on the fifth day of the group stage against Spartak Moscow.

"The odds are still there, unfortunately we have not been able to win this season in the European Cup so Spartak is tomorrow's favorite, but we dare to do it tomorrow," he said. Captain Stefan Schwab, optimistic.

"Spartak is the favorite of this match, but we still want to carry something," says coach Dietmar Kühbauer. "I've been coaching for almost two months now and I would have thought it would be a little easier because of the multiple charge it's difficult to get regular team training. you can not change that, the important thing is that we have a good performance in the last matches and that it starts tomorrow. "

Duel dual as crisis summit: Spartak wants to "take seriously" Rapid

Opponents of Spartak Moscow recently won a 3-1 win over Samara in Oleg Kononov's coaching debut, ending a four-game winless streak. With great success and two draws, Spartak currently holds five points. The only loss this season EL comes from the first leg against Rapid.

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