There is no break in the fight for a place in the UEFA Champions League. Just eight days after advancing against FC Twente, the FC Red Bull Salzburg next Wednesday21 August 2024 (21:00, live on Canal+) on the Ukrainian representative FC Dynamo Kyiv. This meeting takes place in Lublin (POL) and is hosted by Referee Sandro Schärer (CH).
Duel in Poland
After Final training The team will fly to home soil from Salzburg Airport on Tuesday Charter flight to Lublin, about 800 kilometers away, in Poland There we will play against the Ukrainian runner-up last season, who also played there in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League and won two games against Glasgow Rangers (0:0 home, 2:0 away). After the duel with Twente and LASK, the Red Bulls have their third away match in a row on the schedule.
Salzburg-Coach Pepijn Lijnders sees this as an exciting and difficult task, and explains: “I have said it several times: you have to earn your place in the Champions League. And we want to work hard against Kyiv again to achieve this, but also play the good football that we have shown recently. We are pleased that we have created this starting position with two very good matches against Twente. The workload is quite high with many matches in a short space of time. For this we always need as fresh players as possible, the guys who come off the bench should not just be substitutes, but also ‘game changers’. We have managed that well so far, as we saw against LASK, for example.”
Moussa Yeo is also looking forward to the task, but also knows how difficult this duel is: “Dynamo prevailed against the favored Rangers, and with a convincing away win at that. Our analysis of Kyiv showed that we have to compete against a very clever and strong team. It is important for us to get a good starting position for the return match in Salzburg. We will work hard for that.”
Full concentration on preparation
For the return match in the Red Bull Arena six days later, for which advance bookings are already underway, the Preparation phase optimized. Based on a decision by all clubs in the Austrian Bundesliga, the championship match against TSV Egger Glas Hartberg scheduled for next weekend has been postponed. The Red Bulls’ focus is therefore 100 percent on preparing for this probably decisive match for entry into the league phase of the UEFA Champions League.
Dynamo with two wins in the championship
In the Ukrainian Premier League The team of Trainer Oleksandr Shovkovskyi with two wins after three rounds (with one game less) 2nd place in the tableLast Saturday there was an away match at Karpaty Lviv a 3-1 victory (goals by Pikhaljonok, Vanat and Yarmolenko).
Personelles
Not available for this match are Hendry Blank (Thigh), Fernando (Thigh), Daouda Guindo (metatarsal), Dijon Chamber (tarsus), Takumi Kawamura (Knee), Karim Konate (knee) and Leandro Morgalla (Thigh).
Photo: Andreas Schaad – FC Red Bull Salzburg
