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Manchester United loanee Radek Vitek kept a clean sheet against Champions League outfit Red Bull Salzburg as his FC Blau-Weiß Linz impressively beat them 2-0.
The home side thoroughly deserved their win as they had 14 shots on goal to their opposition’s five.
Vitek’s side had to make do with little of the ball however, as they only had 23% of possession but regularly hit their blunt opponents on the counter attack.
The Czech keeper has settled into life well in Austria and has played a total of nine matches, only missing some games due to injury earlier in the season.
The youngster, who was once described as having a similar style to Peter Schmeichel by The Athletic, had a quiet afternoon between the sticks and kept his fourth clean sheet for his new side.
Vitek was given a score of 6.8 by Sofascore given he didn’t have to make any sort of save as the Champions League side struggled to lay a glove on the home team at the Hofmann Personal Stadion.
He had 22 touches of the ball and made nine out of his 14 passes for a success rate of 64%. He also successfully completed five out of his attempted long balls during the game.
Like his time at Accrington Stanley last season, BW Linz are hardly a possession obsessed team, so he has been unable to show his comfort in possession on too many occasions this year.
The 21 year old also made two clearances during the game.
Vitek will be delighted with the way he as seamlessy returned to the first team after injury and has continued to rack up minutes for his new side.
He will also be delighted to have the opportunity to take on European quality sides such as LASK and their opponents yesterday, who have just come off an impressive 3-1 away victory over Feyenoord in the Champions League.
Vitek will next be in action when BW Linz host Grazer AK on Sunday the 24th of November after the international break.