Lukas Grgic scored SV Ried for a major home win 1-0

Lukas Grgic scored SV Ried for a major home win 1-0

RIED. Success honored for the Innviertler against Austria Lustenau. Thus, SV Guntamatic Ried Wednesday with confidence in the knockout stages of the Cup against Wiener Neustadt.

Lukas Grgic is celebrated after the decisive goal of his teammates. Image: GEPA / Florian Ertl Photos

After the victory at the Wattens leaders outside Friday in Amstetten, SV Ried was at home against Lustenau Austria under pressure. Despite the freshness of autumn and the beginning of the game (10:30), about 3,000 spectators found themselves in the Josko arena. Before the match, SV Ried fans celebrated an impressive choreography in which the fans' friendship with the Swiss club Sion was celebrated. Being raised early, more than 50 Lustenau fans will probably mark their footprint again and again.

A choreography before the match Photo: GEPA / Ertl

On the field, the first scoring opportunities were relatively long. Christian Schilling had attempted the ball 22 minutes into the match, but he fired the ball home on the right. Lukas Grgic drew with his left foot in front of Thomas Sageder, the Blau-Weiß-Linz coach, in the 37th minute, Lustenau goalkeeper Kevin Kunz was able to counter the powerful shot.

With more vigor and attractiveness, the Vikings took part in this very competitive game, characterized by numerous duels and fouls after halftime. Darijo Pecirep again failed in the 52nd minute with a header on the powerful goalkeeper Lustenauer. Five minutes later, Edrisa Lubega hit the crossbar after an excellent pbad from Thomas Mayer.

After an hour, Rieder's point of view was finally dismissed: Schilling's throw-in at Grgic, who dueled him and hit the ball with his left foot under the crossbar. The first goal of the season for the 23-year-old was very important.

Only in the final phase, the guests claimed compensation, the victory of SV Ried was finally deserved. "I am happy to have helped my team to score my first goal of the season and to score three points.This goal was very touching," said Grgic at the end of the match, in the following week. optics of Wednesday's Cup match against Wiener Neustadt. (The kickoff is at 19:12) Directed: "For Ried, the Cup is extremely important, the club has already enjoyed great success in this competition, we want to join and spend the winter in quarter of final of the Cup. "

Scorer Lukas Grgic in the brief interview after the match (there are only three games of the season in the fall, not as shown in the interview, four, word of the editor)

Ried for five games without conceding

"It was a question of nervousness in both teams in the first half, so we did not want to lose contact with Wattens and Lustenau could have dominated the pack with a win, and I did not concede a goal for the fifth. consecutive times and I am basically satisfied because the team has given everything, even though it is obvious that there is still much to be done, "said coach Ried Thomas Weissenböck after the final whistle of the OÖN conversation.

Ried-Trainer Thomas Weissenböck Photo: GEPA / Ertl

The verbal confrontation with guest coach Gernot Plasnegger did not want to overestimate Weissenböck. "It was an emotional match, but with the final whistle, everything is already done for me," said Weissenböck.

"The stability on the defensive has been excellent in recent matches and we are working very well backwards," said Ried manager Fränky Schiemer. There is still a lot of potential in the offensive game. "We should have finished one or the other situation in a more coherent way, because we have to improve a lot, especially in the face of supposedly weaker opponents," said Schiemer, who particularly congratulated Fans: "The mood was fantastic again, as well as in The home advantage can still be a decisive factor in the championship," said Schiemer.

On Wednesday, SV Ried receives the competitors of Wiener Neustadt in the round of 16 of the Cup. The last duel of both teams allowed the Innviertler to leave with a score of 0: 3. The send-off in the Josko Arena is at 19:12.

Greetings from Lukas Grgic and Manuel Kerhe Photo: GEPA / Ertl

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