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A real hit awaits football champions Red Bull Salzburg on Wednesday to restart the Bundesliga after the corona virus-related break. The league leader receives Rapid Wien, third in the table. The Bundesliga starts with a prestige duel.
02.06.2020 17.15
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As a freshly baked cup winner, the Salzburg team want to take a first step towards defending their title right at the start of the master group. An intense league final awaits Salzburg with a total of ten games in just five weeks. The start against Rapid on Wednesday is the most important game of the master group for bull coach Jesse Marsch. “Rapid is a direct competitor in the table, a win is important for the points but also for our mentality to show that we are ready for the next five weeks.”
After deducting points for LASK, Salzburg is now the hunted
With the six-point deduction for the LASK, Salzburg no longer enters the decisive phase as the first hunter, but as the league leader and the hunted. Any question marks caused by protests after the last game should be avoided. “We want to go into the games in such a way that it is immediately clear who is the champion at the end, regardless of whether a club gets points or someone gets points. We can only influence our own performance and we go into the ten games so that we want to win them, ”said FC Freund’s sports director, Christoph Freund.
Big game to restart
The restart of the domestic soccer Bundesliga will take place in Salzburg on Wednesday with a prestige duel. Series master Salzburg welcomes Rapid Vienna.
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Rapid wants to get involved in the title race
But Rapid also senses his chance four points behind and wants to turn the Salzburg-LASK duel into a three-way battle. If we should win on Wednesday, the situation will of course have improved for us and we still have nine more games afterwards, “said Rapid Vienna coach Dietmar Kühbauer. ORF one broadcasts the restart of the domestic Bundesliga on Wednesday from the stadium Kleßheim live from 8:15 p.m.
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