Austria Lustenau took three points from home against Wolfsberger in the Bundesliga's third round, ending 2-1 after a dramatic second half. The hosts moved up to seventh place alongside their visitors, who remain seventh on five points from five matches.
Verinac opened the scoring in the twenty-third minute before doubling his tally just before the break. Wolfsberger responded with two quick goals from Vrioni in stoppage time, one of which followed a cancelled VAR penalty for Fabian Wohlmuth. The second half produced no further goals despite a flood of changes from both managers.
Lustenau brought on C. Diabate, A. Schwarz and M. Schabauer just after the interval, while Wolfsberger introduced Danilo Soares and A. Gashi in the sixty-third minute. D. Avdijaj came on for the hosts in the sixty-seventh, and both sides made late substitutions: Verinac was replaced in the seventy-sixth, while O. Mamageishvili and D. Weixelbraun entered in the seventy-seventh and eighty-second respectively.
The statistics tell a familiar story. Wolfsberger dominated possession at sixty-three per cent and pushed forward with one hundred and sixteen attacks, yet only created one big chance. Lustenau registered six big chances from sixty attacks and found the net twice. The visitors shot four times on target against six for the hosts, but accuracy sat at twenty-nine per cent on both sides.
And here's the thing about results like this — they do not always reflect the underlying numbers. Wolfsberger had more passes in the opposition half, completed eighty-three per cent of them, and won more aerial duels, but Lustenau's efficiency in the final third made the difference.
The win lifts Lustenau into seventh place, level on points with Wolfsberger who now sit eighth after dropping two points at home. Both teams have played five matches, won one, drawn two and lost two. The gap between them closes and opens with every result.