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Bottom of the table: Austria Vienna’s “annual drama”

From Der Standard · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Austria Vienna have suffered four defeats in their first five Bundesliga matches, a start the club has never experienced in its league history.
  • The 1-0 home loss to WSG Tirol left the Viennese side at the bottom of the table before their Austrian Cup match in Traiskirchen.
  • Coach Stephan Helm called for unity and said the team faced a great deal of work, while avoiding the word “crisis.”

Austria Vienna have never begun a Bundesliga season like this. Four defeats in their first five league matches have left the traditional Viennese club at the bottom of the table, with coach Stephan Helm under mounting pressure.

The latest setback came on Wednesday, when WSG Tirol won 1-0 in Vienna. The defeat came before Austria’s Austrian Cup appearance in Traiskirchen, adding urgency to an already difficult start. Helm’s team now faces a great deal of work, as the coach himself acknowledged.

Now it is only possible through unity.

· Stephan Helm, Austria Vienna coachHelm called for solidarity after the 1-0 home defeat by WSG Tirol.

Austria had already endured a poor opening to the previous season, taking only one point from its first four rounds. But four losses in the first five league games had never happened to the club in Bundesliga history. That record has now added a new dimension to the team’s early-season problems.

Despite the loss, the club sought to project calm. Helm did not use the word “crisis” and instead appealed to his players to stand together. “Now it is only possible through unity,” Austria coach Stephan Helm said. For a side sitting last in the standings, the message comes with the pressure of an immediate cup assignment and little room for another setback.

A lot of work awaits us.

· Stephan Helm, Austria Vienna coachThe coach acknowledged the scale of the task after Austria’s poor start to the season.
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Originally published by Der Standard in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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