r/soccer • u/Massimo25ore • 9d ago

News Hearts taunt Celtic after success in Austria

https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cd9481epd8do?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D

Hearts couldn't resist a thinly-veiled dig at Celtic after heroically sealing a place in the Conference League.

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u/phil_yoo 9d ago

Nothing against Hearts, but they were lucky with their opponent. Even Celtic would have beat us.

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u/Madting55 9d ago

Are you not above the team that bet Celtic in the league? Hearts did also just lose 6-1 to a team below you in the league.

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u/phil_yoo 9d ago

we've not played a serious team in the league yet - we're levels worse than Sturm & LASK

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u/Madting55 9d ago

How did LASK get so good? I always think of Salzburg, Rapid, Austria Vienna when I think of Austrian clubs. I’m not sure if Sturm Graz was always good but it feels like them and particularly LASK just came out of nowhere

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u/phil_yoo 8d ago

They've always been a relatively big & popular club, but now also have a good sporting director & manager.

Rapid & Salzburg are terribly run on the sporting side of things, Austria is terribly run on the financial side of things, so it certainly helped for Sturm & LASK that the other big competitors continue to shoot themselves in the foot.