RALF RANGNICK, Austria's coach, identified the causes for which his team was defeated by Romaniascore 0-1, in the preliminaries for the world.
Rangnick has “hated” the players for the goal received in extensions from Virgil Ghiță. He said he was expecting a difficult match on the National Arena and that Romania was not surprised. It excludes the possibility of Austria being defeated by Cyprus and Bosnia, in the last two parties of the group.
Ralf Rantnick, after Romania – Austria: “We were expecting a hard match and so”
“Romania did not surprise us with anything. We were expecting a hard match and so it was. Romania had two occasions. We were lucky at the bar in the bar, then Schlager intervened very well. In the last 10 minutes, no one expected Romania to win. It's extremely annoying how I lost.
I asked the players to hold the ball, not to make combinations in the opponent's square area. In the extensions I had the possession of the ball, from the 90th minute to the 90+3 minute, but that phase came. They counted the last few minutes.
Romania played very well in many moments and we could not impose ourselves. It was true what I said before, that it was a very complicated match. I did not treat Romania from above. Where did this idea come from? I didn't come with my nose up. We did not reach the potential we wanted and could touch. But not to have the opponent underestimated.
It will not come to the situation to lose the last two matches. We start from the premise that we will win in Cyprus. We have fate in our hands. We have to win in Cyprus, but it also depends on what Romania does in Bosnia. With 4 points in the last two matches we are qualified.
The goal is from our fault, to a large extent, we were suckers that I did not hold the ball as it should. We rushed to the opponent. If we consider the two big occasions, we can say that Romania was worth the victory. When Romania scored, we fell by suckers, “Rasnick said at the press conference.
