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Thu October 22, 2020 12:40 h. Tottenham Hotspur
At the opening of the UEFA Europa League organizational stages, we once again exploited the wisdom of European football expert Andy Brassell, a regular character on the pages and podcasts of The Guardian, Football Ramble and talkSPORT.
First, tonight’s opponent LASK, the Austrian Bundesliga team that surprised portugal’s comparable European giants Sporting CP 4-1 in the play-offs at Lisbon’s José Alvalade Stadium to qualify for the organizing stages.
“Beating Sporting Lisbon in the play-offs was a huge headache for LASK. They went there and played with wonderful conviction and quality. The Portuguese were surprised by this result, and may have had a few more.
“For LASK, it is a result they needed. They deserve to be the champions of Austria. They were leading the league in the coronavirus hiatus, however they started team education before they were allowed, they got stuck and ended up breaking the regulation and Six numbers were tied while leading the league.
“They began to fall loose from there. This meant that RB Salzburg, their wonderful rivals, who had lost great players such as Takumi Minamino (in Liverpool) and Erling Haaland (in Borussia Dortmund), received a special touch in the name race and advanced them without doing anything. LASK finished the season badly and finished fourth. Valerien Ismael, who played for Crystal Palace, Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg, was sent back to the back of that. “
“We’re waiting a long time there and they can take a scalp like Sporting, it’s probably huge. I guess there’s a stench to fail after last season’s end, but they need to come back and come back strong. this season.
“I was very inspired by them in the Sporting. Si you look at the fourth goal, scored through Andreas Gruber, scored a lot of goals in the Austrian Bundesliga last season and is a player who will have to take him to the next one. “level, has gone to their purpose and where many players may have exploded. That, made an amazing chip in Adan in purpose, an experienced goalkeeper, was awesome.
LASK has a lot on them. For them, making some kind of impression in Europe this season, especially in the context of their collapse last season, adding up to Manchester United’s absolute beating in the 16 (7-1 global) circular, is a big challenge for them. “