Defending champion Red Bull Salzburg will face SV Fügen in the first round of the new ÖFB Cup season. The Austrian series champion is the clear favorite in the duel with the Tyrolean regional league team, but will not underestimate the upcoming opponent.
Matthias Jaissle takes the upcoming opponent very seriously.
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Last season could Red Bull Salzburg snatched victory in the ÖFB Cup for the eighth time. Head coach Matthias Jaissle’s team is again the clear favorites this year and wants to set an exclamation point in the first round. At the start of the new season’s competitive game, the Mozart city-dwellers will have to deal with the Tyrolean regional league club SV Fügen, which the series champions of recent years will by no means underestimate, as Jaissle makes clear: “This is our first competitive game and a knockout at the same time. game – so we take the match seriously.”
“We prepare for the game just as professionally as for any other competitive game. Anything else would be unprofessional and also a bad sign for the team. We take the game and our opponents seriously. It’s also a question of respect,” emphasizes Jaissle, who doesn’t want to experience any nasty surprises with his team. Last year you won your first duel in the cup competition 4:1 against WSC Hertha Wels and this year you will do everything you can to get back into the final.
56 wins in the last 57 cup games
With Samson Tijani, who will be out until the rest of the year after breaking his tibia and fibula, as well as defender Kamil Piatkowski and the two youngsters Dijon Kameri and Justin Omoregie, Salzburg will have to do without four professionals for the first competitive game of the new season.
With 56 wins in the last 57 ÖFB Cup games, Salzburg have clearly proven in the past that they are true cup specialists. Although the numbers speak for themselves, captain Andreas Ulmer also doesn’t want to underestimate the opponent from Tyrol: “First of all, we’re happy that things are starting again. Of course we’re the big favourites, but our goal is to move into the next round confidently . For that we need the right attitude, which we will show.”
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