All about the PSG test

Sturm have never played a game like this before

Sturm in their new home Klagenfurt.(Bild: Sepp Pail)

Austria's double winners Sturm begin their journey through the Champions League in mid-September. In order to test the process - as well as the sporting resistance - in the best possible way, the team from Graz completed a five-star trial gallop against Paris Saint-Germain. The "Krone" was right in the middle of it.

A test match as a triple test run: sporting, organizational and logistical. When Sturm play their Champions League home games in Klagenfurt, everything has to run perfectly. Two hours before kick-off of the test treat against Paris SG, the first fans in jerseys of former Champions League heroes such as Ivo Vastic trickled into the stadium, where Thomas Tebbich took a deep breath: "Until two hours ago, we had massive technical problems, but now everything is running smoothly," said the Blacks' captain. Nothing tragic: WLAN, traffic jams on the approach to the stadium and in front of the ticket offices. Just "teething troubles".