In a diversion to the league chase, Salzburg came up against their great rivals, Rapid, in the Austrian FA Cup Semi-Final.
This was the first leg and a two-match battle involving the top two teams in the country.
First blood to Salzburg. Surprisingly, Salzburg have never won this trophy and now meet Wacker Tirol in the final, themselves yet to lift the cup.
Round two, back in the league. Even if we won, we are still 5 pts behind Rapid with only 3 matches left.
An even better performance from my boys.
So we've done all that we can do. Remember after 9 games we were on 8 pts, 14 behind Rapid.
Now we are just 5 behind, but when Rapid have only lost 5 all season, are they going to suddenly implode? They've been awesome this season, and may just have enough.
All eyes turn to Tuesday 14th April where Rapid entertain Austria Wien. The 3 previous meetings this season have all ended in Rapid victories, 1-0, 5-2, 3-1. So the omen's aren't good.
But......they've just come off the back of two demoralising defeats against their nearest rivals, Salzburg. This has put an end to a chance of a league and cup double. They've done it 3 times before, in '68, '83, & '87 and their performances this year would have had them as firm favourites to do it again. But not anymore!!
On another note, the Salzburg board are rumoured to be considering my position!! Bloody cheek! I wanted to be the one to say goodbye. They couldn't possibly know I was about to go.
