Red Bull Salzburg celebrated their announced football festival against FC Barcelona with a 2-1 win. Austria’s series champion rewarded himself with goals from Luka Sucic (43rd) and Brenden Aaronson (90th) for a dominant performance in front of 29,520 spectators. Martin Braithwaite (83rd) scored for “Barca” to make it 1-1.
ÖFB talent Yusuf Demir came on in the 72nd minute for Antoine Griezmann, played again conspicuously behind a double top and was subsequently offered competitive appearances by coach Ronald Koeman. “If he goes on like this, then maybe yes,” Koeman replied to a related question on ServusTV. “He’s a good young player. He’ll be given opportunities to play.”
This happened to almost all Salzburgers on Wednesday. Because coach Matthias Jaissle had the vast majority of squad players collect playing minutes before the league game on Sunday against Austria Vienna. And his team cut a fine figure, just like in the 1-0 test win against Atletico Madrid last week, throwing everything into the pan in the pouring rain.
“PS put on the road”
The Barca stars felt Salzburg’s tenacity. Koeman came to the fourth official early after Sergio Busquets was repeatedly tapped by Mohamed Camara. “We knew it was going to be difficult. It wasn’t really a friendly game, they stopped a lot of situations with fouls,” said Koeman afterwards.
At the end of a tough training camp in Baden-Württemberg, the Dutchman spoke of a well-deserved Salzburg victory that could well have been better. Noah Okafor alone found a handful of high-profile chances against a defensively vulnerable “Barca”. However, the eleven million striker forgave this – for example with a shot over the empty goal (25th) and a missed shot alone in front of Neto (38th) – miserably or mirror image for his previous commitment. Sucic did much better, whose deflected long shot was a hit worth seeing (43.).
The Spaniards, who came in with a few stars, but without Lionel Messi, who was still without a contract, and in a 3-5-2 formation (with Frenkie de Jong as Libero) settled in their fourth test match (first defeat) before the championship, which began on August 15 only look into the danger zone more often at the finish. The increased offensive efforts resulted in a curious 1: 1 before the next trial opp on Sunday against Juventus, when Braithwaite was the beneficiary of a billiard goal (83rd).
However, Salzburg really wanted to win, Aaronson was spot on for the margin as a result of a goal from Junior Adamu (90th). “Especially with the fans you saw again that the guys put all their horsepower on the road. I was extremely impressed by the way they performed today,” said Jaissle. (apa)
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