"You can not win a game like this"

Leader 2: 3 left Vienna, Austria, for the moment, lost. "It's hard to find an explanation right after the match," said coach Thomas Letsch after a 2 to 3 loss to the WAC after a two-time lead on Saturday. While the Carinthians took fourth place with a deserved victory at the last minute, the "Violettes" are still sixth on average.

Uros Matic had brought Austria with a deflected shot in the first minute with 1: 0 in the front. "We have eliminated the euphoria of the cup and we have started very well, it can not be better," said forward Christoph Monschein. "I can not explain why we are acting and go back almost."

The lack of coherence runs like a thread through Austria's younger past. More than two consecutive league wins have never been in the Letsch era. After 2: 3, the Viennese have never won four championship wins. Saturday, the decline in performance was blatant in the second half. "We could not relieve the pressure, the mistakes were more frequent and we were too far from the opponent, so we were not at all stable," Letsch said.

Monschein was also responsible for the lack of preparation for the given game. "If you do not take the duels in the first minutes, it will be difficult, especially if the WAC combines well," said the scorer at 2: 1, which he managed with a catchy arc lamp. "We were still too late so we had no second ball – so you can not win a game."

After the third league game without a win in a row, Letsch's balance after 25 Bundesliga matches is now negative. The coach of Austria (ten wins, four draws, eleven defeats) is negative. His team was fired by the public with whistles and a first "let out!" – screaming. "If you lose a match against a direct competitor at home and play a second half, it's only natural that you become outrageous, that's part of it," Letsch said.

"Three times before the foot falls"

Monschein cried a missed opportunity in the race for the top six championship group. "With three points, we could have advanced extremely far, we have not done as in recent weeks," he said, looking at the table that identifies Austria in sixth place. "Now we have to pull ourselves together and discover the basics – run and fight – we're still going to score goals."

The fact that in this gray autumn afternoon, an ex-Austrian scored the three matches Wolfsberg enters the table. Mario Leitgeb was in each case after a ball lying dormant on the spot. "Today, I hit the ball three times in front of my head – it's amazing, of course," said the midfielder. "Maybe that's exactly what happened to Austria, that's what fate might have meant."

Thanks to Leitgeb's triple, the Carinthians, ranked fourth, continued their lead with seven points from the last three games. "For the table, the result is of course exceptional.Winner in Austria, we do not necessarily have the WAC ahead of the plan," said coach Christian Ilzer.

Despite the "best performance of the season with the ball" (Ilzer), the wolves had to worry about the reward that they earned for a long time. The gold goal did not fall at the minute 92. "Pbadion and playful quality: today we put everything on the field," summed WAC playmaker Michael Liendl, another former Austrian. "It was not foreseeable that we were dominating Austria far from home." Defender Lukas Schmitz: "We must accuse ourselves of winning with only one goal difference, but we are of course satisfied with the three points and are a little proud of the performance."

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