Thanks to Dario Tadic! Hartberg’s footballers can confidently say this time. The striker scored a flawless hat trick in the Cup supplement at Blau-Weiß Linz. At the end of the 3-2 win it was still exciting, but there was nothing to shake about the Styrians’ ascent to the quarter-finals against Rapid (February 2022).
“The first half was unbelievably good,” summed up Tadic. “After that we faltered a bit, but the guys in the back defended it well.” Hartberg, who played differently in several positions compared to the Bundesliga, had some problems after changing sides. “If you lead 3-0, you actually have to play it down confidently,” said TSV coach Kurt Russ. “But blue and white didn’t do that badly. All in all, it was a deserved victory for us. We wanted to spend the winter in the Cup, we made it. “