New Salzburg League goalscorers shine: Former Bull with hat-trick for Newmarket – Short tease on 'substitution errors' at Anif

The home crowd couldn't have imagined a better new signing: Elias Attiabho, whose dream of winning after training at the Red Bull Academy was shattered by injury, paved the way for Newmarket to a 3-2 home win on Friday with a flawless hat trick in the first 25 minutes of the derby against Thalgau. He headed home after a fine solo move in front of goal and a mistake by former Newmarket player Mario Kreuzer. With him in attack, Thalgau came close to scoring after the break. “But we deserved to lose,” said the visitors' coach Tomislav Junjic. Newmarket's sporting director Hans Hajek was satisfied. “In the end we ran out of fuel. Until then, congratulations to the team, they were also strong in terms of play.”

Aneves Sparber scored twice – which is exciting after the match.

Patrick Sparber also had a perfect home performance. The new Anif scorer sealed his team's second win of the season against Strasfalchen with a brace. Meanwhile, the visitors equalised on repeated penalties – Josef Stadlbauer perhaps pushed forward too early to save Lukas Feldmann, and then had no chance against Daniel Chudoba. “A brutal tactical game, in which we had the most will,” says Anif assistant coach Fabian Treppel, who represents head coach Thomas Eder at Olympia. After the game, there was a brief uncertainty as to whether Anif had committed a supposed foul during the substitution. The video was cleared.