Altach were victims of a 3-0 drubbing at LASK Linz on Saturday, with all three goals against coming past the hour mark.

As has quickly become customary, American target man Nate Jaqua led the Cashpoint line for the full 90 minutes.

The opening period was a progressively rougher stretch of play with few real scoring chances. Altach keeper Mario Krassnitzer stifled the best opportunity of the half when he denied Adi Sobrinho at the end of a flicked-on corner kick in the 27th minute.

Shortly after halftime, Jaqua beat his marker to an Oliver Mattle cross, but narrowly missed the target with his header.

At the hour, the home side punished that bit of wastefulness with an opening salvo. Christoph Saurer teed up Michael Baur from a restart and the former Austria international put Linz ahead.

Saurer added on from a Mario Mijatovic feed 12 minutes later and the Croatian completed the margin in stoppage time thanks to an assist from skipper Ivica Vastic.

Altach will return home to welcome SV Mattersburg on Saturday.

Scoring
LASK - Michael Baur 2 (Christoph Saurer) 60'
LASK - Christoph Saurer 6 (Mario Mijatovic) 72'
LASK - Mario Mijatovic 7 (Ivica Vastic) 90+2'

Line-ups
LASK - Silvije Čavlina; Niklas Hoheneder, Gerald Gansterer, Tomasz Wisio, Jürgen Panis, Ivica Vastic, Adi Sobrinho, Mario Mijatovic, Christoph Saurer, Michael Baur, Mariano Torres (Wolfgang Klapf 85'), Richard Wemmer (Almedin Hota 83')

ALT - Mario Krassnitzer; Alen Orman, Daniel Gramann, Alex Guem, Stephan Kling, Manfred Pamminger, Patrick Mayer, Oliver Mattle (Leonardo da Silva 74'), Karsten Hutwelker (Manuel Schmid 68'), Roland Kirchler (Bernd Winkler 85'), Nate Jaqua