"Krone" column
Salzburg showed a sign of life
After a difficult few weeks recently, Salzburg put in a strong performance in the Champions League clash with Feyenoord in Rotterdam, winning 3:1. If coach Pep Lijnders' team keep playing like this, they can hurt almost any opponent. A column by "Krone" sports editor Christoph Nister.
Lately, runners-up Salzburg have not only been regularly beaten up on the pitch, but also by the fans and media.
The typical Red Bull soccer was no longer recognizable. Various key players slipped into an inexplicable slump in form. The team spirit that coach Pep Lijnders praised at the start of the season was nowhere to be seen on the pitch. Until yesterday. The Dutchman's team showed signs of life.
The players fought for each other, they scratched, they bit. Virtues that seemed to have been lost for weeks. Before the game in the soccer temple "De Kuip" ("The Tub"), hardly anyone had put a penny on the red-white-red representative from the Salzach.
The sporting crisis was compounded by ever-increasing personnel problems. Before the duels against Sparta Prague, Brest and Dinamo Zagreb, the team was considered to be at least on a par, but Sammy Baidoo and Co. entered Rotterdam as clear underdogs for the first time this season. A role that obviously suits the Lijnders team better. Less pressure, fewer expectations, more success.
If this is the new formula for success, they could also do well against Leverkusen, Paris, Real and Atlético Madrid.
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