“We played two different halves – the first excellent, the second not good,” Slovan coach Vladimír Weiss senior began his assessment of the match with this sentence. And exactly this sentence describes the match in which Slovan lost by three goals at Sturm Graz.
Advancement to the round of 16 of the European Conference League is therefore now only a utopia. In addition to the high deficit from the opening match, the reason is also that Slovan has weakened significantly in the winter, has a narrow squad, and one of its key players – Vladimír Weiss Jr. – cannot start in the rematch.
The coach’s son received a red card for a senseless and stupid foul ten minutes after arriving on the pitch.
Closed streets and traffic
The Austrian authorities described the match as risky. Especially for the bad reputation that precedes the hard core of Slovan fans. About 1,500 of them came to Graz.
For this very reason, there were several restrictions in Graz. The police closed a few streets, stopped traffic, set up a so-called security zone and from the beginning they watched over the ultras of Slovan, who met almost four hours before the start of the match in the city center.
Traditionally, they also drew attention to themselves through inappropriate behavior. While marching to the stadium, they threw beer cans, but also empty alcohol bottles all around. Even worse were their cries: “Turkish ghetto” or “racists, fascists, hooligans”. The other one they tend to shout when they have
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2024-02-15 21:45:49
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