0:3 in Ried

Nine decisive minutes for Bregenz

Bregenz captain Franco Flückiger (right) does not normally make mistakes.(Bild: GEPA pictures)

Ried knocked Bregenz out in a very short space of time, with a treble from the Innviertel side making the situation clear. Half an own goal and a serious blunder sealed the defeat, meaning the provincial capital has now gone five games without a seventh win of the season. 

It was nine minutes that decided the top match in League Two between league runners-up Ried and fourth-placed Bregenz, with the Innviertel side scoring three times shortly after half-time. Bajic's third goal was actually just the formal death blow.

The second goal conceded, six minutes after the 0:1 - in which SW defender Florian Prirsch was unluckily headed on by Ried's Thomas Sollbauer - was the real crux of the game: Bregenz goalkeeper Franco Flückiger played a risky pass into the center circle in half-field, under moderate pressure. The ball came back immediately via Ried's Oliver Steurer to his striker Wilfried Eza, and the Ivorian easily but nonetheless spectacularly put the ball over Flückiger to make it 2-0.

Coach Regi van Acker and his team lost for the second time in a row, which had never happened before this season.(Bild: GEPA pictures)

Bregenz held their own
A rare but painful mistake by the strong keeper, who has already saved his team from conceding several goals this season and also made some brilliant saves in the final phase against Ried. "An unfortunate corner kick, an individual mistake. You know it's over against such a good opponent," summed up SW coach Regi van Acker, whose team kept up well against a no-frills promotion hopeful, even if the Upper Austrians clearly had the better chances, especially in the second half.

Bregenz are now five rounds into their search for their seventh win of the season - the Black & Whites have lost twice in a row and drawn three times before that.