Magnificent result, now to finish off the group stage phase with another win against Basel in the final fixture

1.12.19, Christopher Steegmann: ”The boys have responded to that defeat against Salzburg exactly how I wanted them to, by rallying and pushing on and putting together an extremely positive position and we’re up into second. We’ve now won all five of the Bundesliga games since that disappointing defeat including all three this month and we’ve played some very good football even though we’ve never really been able to put out our best starting XI week in week out. It’s testament to how strong this squad is because we’ve picked up some really good results with quite a few players in the physio’s room rather than on the pitch. We were expected to beat Floridsdorfer comfortably and perhaps it was disappointing to have conceded a goal to a side that are now really starting to struggle. Following on from that disappointing defeat to Standard Liege the boys responded really well by going on to beat Rheindorf Altach in a big game in the Bundesliga and finally we might be beginning to see the best of Blessing Eleke now which bodes really well for us moving forward. We deserved more from the St. Polten game in terms of goals scored but the performance against Olympiakos was incredible and we’ve picked up a huge three points in our bid to qualify from our Europa League group.”
1.1.19, Christopher Steegmann: ”We’ve continued our fine form since the defeat to Salzburg back in October with another three big results in December and we’re now just the four points behind Salzburg heading into the winter break. It was after the winter break that things went wrong for us last season but this season we look and feel different, we’re being far more pragmatic and winning games when during that rough and winning games with a rotated side because we’re rotating the side a lot this season. The wins over Wolfsberger and Mattersburg showed how well we can play though, attacking really well and scoring plenty of goals and we were unfortunate to draw with Sturm Graz and should have scored goals and I guess we should just put it down as a bad day in front of goal. To have progressed in the Europa League when the odds seemed against us at one stage is another huge bonus and shows what this squad can do and the togetherness in the team so we are very happy at the end of this month. The team can go away and enjoy their winter breaks now but you can rest assured we will push heavily in the second half of the campaign to try and meet the same standards and achieve our ambitions.”
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