Series champion Salzburg today welcomes the slightly ailing VfL Wolfsburg in the Champions League. You are there with the LIVETICKER from sportkrone.at. In the video above, sportkrone.at reporter Mario Drexler talks to “Krone” editor Valentin Snobe about the hit, Adeyemi, Simic and much more! It is currently 1: 1
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Because Benjamin Sesko, another young offensive star, suffered a torn muscle fiber in his thigh at the 1-1 draw in Altach on Saturday, Jaissle pulled 18-year-old Simic von Liefering upstairs without further ado. The son of the Croatian ex-team player Dario Simic only came to Salzburg from Lok Zagreb in the summer. “A really nice story. He’s already shown what he’s capable of in the box during training, ”said Jaissle of the 1.90-meter man who scored 7 goals in 10 second division games and who are rumored to be very interested in the big clubs of Real Madrid’s caliber.
It is similar with 19-year-old Adeyemi, who is to be courted by Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Leipzig and Liverpool, among others. The only thing that is clear at the moment is that Adeyemi will play on Wednesday, as Jaissle confirmed. At the weekend, the double goal scorer was spared in the 2-1 win over Lille at the end of September. “The topic is a bit hotter in the media than internally. He still has many steps to take here,” emphasized Jaissle.
He expects a slightly adapted approach from Wolfsburg, who have to do without their best striker Wout Weghorst due to a corona infection. “I’m curious to see if they’ll bring their pattern onto the pitch as well if the storm tank is missing,” said Jaissle. “You are physically very strong, you play a lot with shifts and try to flank early in the last third. We have to put pressure on it early on and defend it well, ”explained the 33-year-old.
In addition to Sesko, he is still missing veteran Zlatko Junuzovic, Sekou Koita, Oumar Solet, Albert Vallci and Kamil Piatkowski. No need to worry, as the course of the season so far has proven. Failures were always absorbed, despite the youth. “The team looks very mature for its age. That will be very important again tomorrow, ”said Jaissle. The starting eleven on Wednesday should have an average age of almost 23 years.
Wolfsburg starts the journey with worries instead of in a festival mood: After three league defeats en suite or six competitive games without a win in a row, they have a meager nine goals in the championship. Injured ex-Salzburg Xaver Schlager, like substitute goalie Pavao Pervan, is not responsible for defensive insecurities and poor exploitation of opportunities. Neo-coach Mark van Bommel is facing his first acid test in the Autostadt. VfL Sport Managing Director Jörg Schmadtke recently spoke to the German “Sportbuzzer” about a “complicated situation” and stated: “The performances do not meet our requirements.”
Van Bommel struggled with fate. “It’s not that we’re playing badly. On the contrary: We determine the games, but we don’t win them, ”explained the successor to Oliver Glasner, whose team drew twice in the CL. For Schmadtke, given the Salzburg playing style, the brake pedal is in demand. “You have to try to bring the team to a standstill because they have an extremely fast pace in their ranks. You have to appear compact and should defend sensibly – if possible as a team. “