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VIDEO: Crazy shootout in Vienna, 8 goals scored! Pekhart scores again in Legia jersey after phenomenal action
The return matches of the third round of the European Conference League brought a lot. But one of the most attractive was the match between Austria Vienna and Legia Warsaw. The fans saw eight goals, with the Polish club enjoying the promotion. Tomas Pekhart contributed to the favourable final result, scoring after a truly wonderful action.
The return matches of the third round of the European Conference League brought a lot. But one of the most attractive was the match between Austria Vienna and Legia Warsaw. The fans saw eight goals, with the Polish club enjoying the promotion. Tomas Pekhart contributed to the favourable final result, scoring after a truly wonderful action.
After the first match, Austria Vienna went into the return leg with a one-goal lead, having won 2-1 against Legia last week.
Everybody was probably expecting a more cautious match on Thursday, when both teams will want to avoid unnecessary mistakes. But it can be said that the exact opposite was true.
Eight goals were scored in the match, with the final score 3:5 in Legia’s favour. The Polish big club led 2:0 after the first half, when Juergen Elitim scored first in the 39th minute, and Marc Gual added the second goal in the first minute of stoppage time.
In the 59th minute, Legia were 3-0 up. However, we need to pause for a moment on this goal. The visitors played a wonderful piece of football at the end of which the Czech goalkeeper Pekhart stood out.
He has already scored seven times in the current competition year and with this goal he helped his team to advance to the next stage of the Conference League. You can watch the whole action in the video below.
Infarct ending of the match, the advancing goal was scored in the 100th minute
Ten minutes later, Andreas Gruber reduced the gap to two goals. The Austrian striker then scored once more in the 83rd minute to make it 2:3. Three more goals were scored at the end of the second half, and the fans in the Generali Arena experienced a truly heart-stopping ending.
Maciej Rosolek increased the Legion’s lead to 4:2 in the 87th minute, and in the 97th minute Reinhold Ranftl scored for Austria and it was only a goal again!
In any case, Ernest Muci scored for the Warsaw side in the tenth minute of stoppage time. After a very attractive match, Legia was delighted with the promotion, while Austria said goodbye to the European Cup after the 3:5 result.
Sources: UEFA, Legia Warsaw, Twitter
