2023-10-14 01:54:21
Ralf Rangnick is known as a coach who always has extremely high expectations of his teams. He admits that himself.
“But I wouldn’t have necessarily believed the boys could do it the way they did it today. I wouldn’t have believed that we could play such a good game in this constellation,” admitted the German at the press conference after the match unfortunate defeat against Belgium in the showdown for the EURO ticket (match report>>>).
Rangnick’s surprise comes from the fact that the ÖFB team with David Alaba, Marko Arnautovic, Stefan Posch, Phillipp Mwene and Michael Gregoritsch had to announce five potential starting XI players injured on Friday, and also from the quality of the opponent.
“We’re not dream dancers. It was already clear to us that you could theoretically lose a game like this in the personnel situation we found ourselves in,” says the team boss, who this time will be creative in the formation of his starting eleven had to.
Pressing worked despite changes
This time, Nicolas Seiwald was used in the unusual position of right-back, Florian Grillitsch was allowed to play in central midfield for the first time in the current qualifying, and debutant Manprit Sarkaria made a somewhat surprising appearance in the attack, which was heavily plagued by injuries.
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