Kapfenberg and Amstetten met at the Franz-Fekke-Stadion on Thursday evening for a Regular Season encounter in the 2. Liga, and the visitors left with a 4:3 victory. The result moves Amstetten up to eighth place with nine points from six games, while Kapfenberg remain rooted at the bottom with just one win and three points.
By then the game had already shown its character. Benjamin Heuser gave Kapfenberg an early lead in the fifth minute, a moment that set the tone for a match where neither side would hold an advantage for long. David Peham levelled for Amstetten in the thirtieth, and Armin Haider restored the hosts' advantage before half-time in the forty-second.
And here's the thing about second-half football. Amstetten turned it around quickly, with Antonio Sokcevic finding the net in the fifty-fifth and Robert Zlibanovic adding a second in the fifty-ninth. Kapfenberg's manager reacted by bringing on three players at once in the sixty-sixth, but the visitors struck again when Peham completed his brace in the seventy-sixth.
The match could have settled there, but football rarely behaves predictably. Philipp Offenthaler scored for Amstetten in the eighty-seventh minute, a goal that took the players' minds off the substitution made just three minutes earlier. Kapfenberg received a yellow card in stoppage time, though by then the outcome was beyond question.
The statistics tell a story that matches what you saw. Amstetten registered thirteen shots on target against five, while their goalkeeper made just two saves compared to nine for Kapfenberg's keeper. Possession sat at 57 per cent for the visitors, and their ten corners to three suggests they controlled the wide areas.
To be fair, the table tells you nothing about this particular result. Kapfenberg have lost five of six games and sit on three points, while Amstetten's three draws this season show a side that can grind results. The visitors extended their unbeaten run to five matches, having won their last outing 4:2 against Austria Wien.
