“Catastrophic!”. Austrian journalists gave their verdict after watching FCSB in the match against Sparta Prague. Why the game with Lask Linz is considered a “chance for revenge”

The press from Austria came with a verdict after the match played by FCSB with Sparta Prague. Why the clash with Lask Linz is seen as a ‘chance for revenge’.

FCSB lost the match with Sparta Prague, score 2-3, in the third preliminary round of the Champions League. For the team patronized by Gigi Becali, the duel with LASK Linz in the Europa League follows, the stake being the qualification in the competition groups.

Journalists from Austria came up with a verdict after the failure suffered by FCSB in the duel with Sparta Prague

Before this match, Austrian journalists wrote about the fact that the group LASK Linz will take advantage of the opportunity to try to get revenge on FCSBa band they also met in August 1999.

“Chance for revenge. The one who won the Romanian championship 27 times will visit the Linz Raffeisen Arena on August 22. This duel also took place in 1999. It will be a reunion with FCSB, the reigning champions of Romania, with whom they lost in the UEFA Cup in 1999.

Back then under the name “Steaua”, the overall score was 2-5 (0-2 at home, 2-3 away). This time, the revenge should be successful in the two duels on August 22 and 29″, noted those from nachrichten.at.

The Austrians criticize FCSB after the return match with Sparta Prague: “The first half was catastrophic”

By the way, the Austrians they also commented on the match between FCSB and Sparta Prague in the third preliminary round of the Champions League, the publication Laola1 writing about the reason why the “red-blues” were eliminated from the European interclub competition.

The source in question noted that FCSB had a “disastrous” first half in the return leg against the Czech champions, given that the visitors had scored three goals by the 37th minute.

“LASK Linz has found out its opponent in the Europa League play-off – the Romanian champion FCSB, which reaches this stage after failing in the Champions League preliminaries. In the end, FCSB were eliminated on the limit after 2-3 at home against Sparta Prague and 3-4 on aggregate.

The reason for FCSB’s elimination was the catastrophic first half. The visitors quickly showed which way they wanted the game to go and immediately took a comfortable lead thanks to Veljko Birmancevic’s brace and Lukas Haraslin made it 3-0 for Sparta in the 37th minute.

However, in the second half, FCSB did not give up and managed to score a goal through Darius Olaru. Malcom Edjouma scored for 2-3 in the 85th minute, and the tension rose again, but Sparta managed to keep their advantage”, wrote those from Laola1.