2-1: Austria, with an explosive start and with Alaba as a motivator, beat Serbia

The Austrian team, with injured Real Madrid player Alaba on the bench as assistant coachwon this Tuesday in Vienna 2-1 match Serbiaafter an explosive first half, where the locals scored two goals in less than five minutes.

The first goal of the game came in the 10th minute, after a deep pass by Baumgartner, who was alone with the Serbian goalkeeper. Wimmer, who scored without a problem. About three minutes later, he himself Baumgartner who took advantage of another perfect deep pass, this time from Grillitsch.

However, after a frantic start, with several scoring opportunities for the Austrians, including a clear penalty that was not called by the Portuguese referee Namethe locals could not keep up and saw how the Serbs gradually took control of the game.

The visitors’ first and only goal came in the 35th minute of the first half, after a cross from Tadic. Spajic headed the ball accurately which was saved by Austrian goalkeeper Pentz, who, however, was powerless against the rebound, also a header, from Pavlovic.

From this moment, the match started to become more difficult, with many fouls and few chances to score. Although the visitors dominated the second half, the main scoring opportunity went to the Austrians, who, however, in a counterattack with four against two defenders were unable to score a third goal.

The madridista praiseinjured for several months with a torn cruciate ligament, made his debut on the coach’s bench on Wednesday Ralf Rangnick, as a motivator and coordinator for players and coaching staff. In this 2-1, Austria It achieved its sixth consecutive victory, in which it travels to the last friendly before the European Cupthis Saturday, against Switzerland.