SC Andau visited Kittsee last weekend. Kittsee dominated Apetlon at Apetlon two weeks ago to move forward in the Raiffeissen Cup. Unsurprisingly, SC Kittsee was unable to defeat higher league club SC/ESV Parndorf on 14 August. Expectations were high going into the game when Andau came to visit on 22 August.

An early goal from Jozef Sombat had the home crowd happy. Manuel Schopf answered quickly for SC Andau but Kittsee dominated play. To the Kittsee home crowd and even players, it looked like referee Faruk Sevik seemed to be favouring Andau. The free kicks, disputed balls seemed to all go Andau’s way. Pavol Bellas received a yellow card at 27 minutes for an aggressive tackle. When ten minutes later a Bellas breakaway was called back on a non-offside, he lost his temper. The second yellow card sent him out of the game with a red card at 44 minutes.

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Last weekend our Kittsee soccer team headed deep into wine country beside Neusiedler am See to play Apetlon in the Raiffeisen Cup, which is one of the those national tournaments in which teams from all levels can compete, rising to meet tougher and tougher competition. These cups are really a remnant of amateur sports, where a smaller city could field an amazing team for a few years and take home the national silverware.

It’s great to dream though – and dream big Kittsee did. Franz Ziniel had the team perfectly prepared and they dominated Apetlon throughout the game. The fight didn’t go out of Apetlon until 4-0. Congratulations to Mario Marko on his four goal hat trick – four in a row. He was on fire. Jozef Sombat had a goal and an excellent game outrunning the Apetlon defense regularly.

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