Rapid Vienna suffers a home defeat in the 347th Wiener derby against Austria!

Rapid Vienna suffers a home defeat in the 347th Wiener derby against Austria!

In the sold-out Allianz Stadium, there was really a fire in the Viennese derby today: the Viennese Austria beat SK Rapid Vienna 3-1 and gave the rapidlers the first defeat of the season in the Bundesliga. In front of 26,000 enthusiastic fans, the match started with a bang, because Rapid had the first big chance in the fourth minute, but missed the goal and failed due to Austria's keeper Samuel Sahin-Radlinger. Sn.at reports that Austria was able to free itself from the defensive after about ten minutes, which paved the way for a brilliant game.

The first tour for Austria was achieved by Tae-Seok Lee, which after a VAR check that initially displayed an offside position, scored 1-0 in the 24th minute to the delight of the Austria supporters. Rapid replied promptly when Claudy Mbuyi converted a penalty in the 48th minute and thus managed to equalize. But the joy of Rapid did not last long. Just a minute later, Abubakr Barry brought Austria again before Noah Botic scored the third goal for Austria in the 59th minute and finally decided the game. [Kicker.at] (https://www.kicker.at/rapid-wien-staustria-wien-2025-bundesliga-oesterreich-5051397/ game report) emphasizes that Rapid also conceded the red card for Philipp Wiesinger in a phase in which they could have put pressure on.

Table developments and other duels

After this defeat, Rapid fell to second place from the first place in the table and is now only two points ahead of Sturm Graz. So while Rapid has to watch how Sturm is moving up, Austria showed a strong tailwind with this fourth victory in a row, which brings it to fifth place. [laola1.at] (https://www.laola1.at/de/fussball/bundesliga/safeis-2025-26/8/austtria-gewinnt-spektakulaeres-347-wiener- derby-bei-rapid/) describes that for Rapid in the conference League against Lech and in League against Red Bull Salzburg continues.

There are also positive things for the Salzburgers on this matchday: they won 2-1 against WSG Tyrol and thus ended a dry spell of three without a win. Kerim Alajbegovic and Petar Ratkov, who leads the rifle list with six goals, were the scorers for Salzburg. The Wolfsberger AC also celebrated a narrow 1-0 win over LASK, while Blau-Weiß Linz also won 1-0 against Altach. In a duel between the two lower table positions, SV Ried and the GAK separated with a goalless draw.

The Bundesliga remains exciting, and with such gripping derbies and surprising results, the fight for the front places is anything but decided.