Former MU Borrowed Player Qualifies Austria for Euro 2024

Australia celebrates qualifying for the Euro 2024 finals after beating Azerbaijan. (Twitter @EURO2024)

JAKARTA - Austria advanced to the final round of Euro 2024. Austria's steps were determined by a 1-0 victory over Azerbaijan in the Group F qualifying duel at the Tofiq Bakhramov Stadium, Tuesday, October 17 early morning WIB. Former Manchester United loan player Marcel Sabitzer, who left Austria, accompanied Belgium to Germany.

Austria has shown consistency by competing in major tournaments on the blue continent. Success in qualifying for the Euro 2024 finals is the third time in a row.

Even at the last event, Euro 2020, Austria managed to penetrate the last 16 before being eliminated by Italy 2-1. Italy itself then became champion after beating England on penalties.

In the course of qualifying for Euro 2024, Austria competes with Belgium and Sweden. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Estonia are still only complements.

The results were not far from predictions. Belgium, a star-studded team, had no difficulty qualifying for the finals by becoming group winners.

The last match against Sweden which was held at home to Belgium had to be postponed due to a terrorist attack which killed two people. The incident occurred before the match.

Whatever the result of the postponed match between Belgium and Sweden, Austria will still qualify for the finals. The victory over Azerbaijan meant that Das Team confirmed its position in second place by collecting 16 points.

They are 10 points ahead of Sweden who are in third place. Even though Sweden still has three matches remaining, they can no longer catch up with Austria's points tally.

In that match, Austria continued to work hard to get three points. They had difficulty penetrating the host's defense.

Austria finally managed to break the deadlock in the second half. Sabitzer scored the visitors' goal from the penalty spot in the 48th minute.

Sabitzer, who was borrowed by MU last season from Bayern Munich, completed the execution well.

Score 1-0 for Austria. No more goals were scored and the score remained until the end of the match.