Trouble with Klauss before the flight to Istanbul

Rapid has both the championship lead on Saturday Football Bundesliga as well as that Home winning streak playful. Through that 1:1 against LASK the Hütteldorfers fell behind Storm Graz and for the first time this season they did not leave the field as winners in a championship match at the Allianz Stadium. Still was a coach Robert Klauss not dissatisfied – the performance was okay and the look at the ranking was only a snapshot anyway, said the German.

Even before the game, Rapid’s top position had a flaw, after all Red Bull Salzburg calculated according to loss points. The relapse was all the easier to cope with. “I don’t care at all about the league lead. The two lost points hurt me much more than the situation in the table,” emphasized Klauß. “I’m not that interested in the table now; it has little meaning due to the impending division.”

Rapid had won against Sturm, Salzburg and Austria at home in the past few weeks, but against ninth-placed Linz they were only able to share points – also because they scored a strange goal. Robert Zulj thanked him for a serious misunderstanding between Louis Schaub and Mamadou Sangare. “The goal conceded is very annoying. We talked about it at half-time that we don’t want to give anything to the opponent, and then one relies on the other. We already had the ball and gave it away again,” criticized Klauss.

Nevertheless, it was almost enough to win, but Guido Burgstaller’s shot landed on the inside bar and Nikolaus Wurmbrand missed a shot. Klauss made no accusations against the teenager. “He is extremely talented, a hard-working, good boy. He will still score his goals.”

The German also supported Schaub, who had so far failed to live up to expectations, and did not criticize the rest of the team harshly, quite the opposite: “A draw against LASK is not a shame because they are a good team. It shows where we’ve come, that we’re upset because we didn’t win. We have to continue with this greed, that we want to win everything we can.”

The focus was already on the next task on Wednesday, when we play away against Basaksehir Istanbul in the Conference League. “We’re a little weaker, but not too much because we didn’t play a bad game,” said Klauß. Isak Jansson will not travel to Turkey. The offensive player’s knee irritation became acute again and he will probably not be available again until after the international break in mid-October.

One day after Rapid, LASK also enters the Conference League, in Linz against Djurgården. Before the duel with the Swedes, the point win in Vienna-Hütteldorf comes at just the right time. “It was important to show the ability to suffer. That is the basis for bigger things to happen,” explained coach Markus Schopp. “There were many things that will give us strength in the next few days.”