Rapid in the crisis: Is the descent threatening the year after a catastrophic start?

Rapid in the crisis: Is the descent threatening the year after a catastrophic start?

Hütteldorf, Österreich - rapid Vienna is in a severe crisis. After the team started the football year with three defeats-including a 1: 3 against Wolfsberg and a two narrow 1-2 defeat against the rivals Austria and LASK-the club has reached the worst record at the beginning of a second half of the season in 51 years. The location is tense: The team of coach Robert Klaus is currently fifth and is fighting for a place in the top 6. The lead over the LASK is only three points and four points in the penultimate place, while the lead of Sturm Graz is already twelve points away, such as the krone reported.

The signs were promising: In winter, the club had rejected an offer of eight million euros for star players Mamadou Sangare to dare to attack the 33rd championship title. Instead, the green-whites can be found in a downward trend that seriously endangered the sporting goals, in particular Rapid should fail in the Conference League and continue to slip in the league. As the Today is dissatisfied with the current state and speaks of a "shitty phase" that significantly affects the morale of the team.

A look at the next steps

rapid now has the opportunity to pull the rudder around in the upcoming games against Altach, Gak and Hartberg. Klauss emphasizes that the successful phase did not come overnight and that the return to success also takes time. Despite the negative results, he sees the positive approaches that the team showed in individual game situations. The captain Matthias Seidl commented similarly: "We tried a lot, but mistakes and individual mistakes punish ourselves hard." They are under pressure, as it were, when it comes to luring the audience back to the stadium and securing the market values ​​of the players, which are at risk from the current performance.