Sturm Graz – Players care about the bird: "Playing for the coach"

"It's very bitter not to have rewarded the coach, we have played well, he has prepared us well and I have contributed a lot to the victory that has not been successful today," he said. Sturm captain Stefan Hierländer after the event Game on the sky. "We do not have any coaching discussions with the troupe, we play for the club, for all those who wear the SK Sturm in their hearts and of course for the coach."

Hierländer and his colleagues – not for the first time this year – blamed disappointment for a disastrous mix of lack of luck and inability at the door. "One of the two chances, I just have to do it, then we come out winners, I participate in the loss of points on my hood," said Hierländer. The veteran Fabian Koch, who had stormed his first goal of the season with his first goal of the season, did not want to "talk about bad luck", it was the same each time. "We do not do these things for the moment and we can score the goals too easily on the back."

"If you take the match, how many chances we have eliminated, you could say that the team looks very untouched," said Günter Kreissl. "But I do not think that in the last eleven rounds of the Bundesliga, where we have only one victory, we can only talk bad luck every time." The sports director, whose relationship with his coach is no longer free of friction, will meet Sunday with the board for a meeting of crisis.

A first contact with any potential successors of birds should have already taken place. For example, the former coach of Wiener Neustadt and the icon of the storm Roman Mählich are in high demand. There was no denial of Kreissl. "It would be disrespectful to discuss names for which we still do not know how to proceed," Kreissl said.

Vogel himself wants to continue fighting for a storm future. "I love my job and I do not give up, and I can say that the relationship between the training team and the players is very intact and characterized by more than one. simple mutual respect. "

Wacker coach Karl Daxbacher after the undefeated fourth league match of the no series. He was pleased with an increase in performance at table ten, again after a backlog. "Whenever we are about to lose the match, we will improve, but in some situations we have been really lucky," said Daxbacher, realistically estimating the result, also thanks to the two goals in scorer, Peter Zulj. His "counterpart" Heiko Vogel was sympathetic to the "coach-sir": "I do not know what to accuse him after this game."