Red Bull Salzburg shocked Feyenoord in De Kuip to deal a severe blow to the Rotterdam club’s hopes of progressing in the Champions League.

There was little trace of the confidence that Feyenoord showed in beating Benfica and Girona in their last two matches as they looked toothless in attack and shambolic in defence.

A red card for substitute Chris Nadje, after referee Donatas Rumšas decided on a video review that he had stamped on a defender’s foot, added to a miserable night.

Salzburg took the lead just before the half-time whistle, as Karim Konaté headed in to punish a blunder by goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther, who failed to find Igor Paixão with a routine throw-out.

Konaté doubled the lead on 58 minutes after the home side failed to clear a corner, allowing the striker to squeeze a shot through the legs of Gernot Trauner.

Nadje’s dismissal looked to have put the game beyond reach, but Feyenoord rallied and managed to pull a goal back within two minutes when Anis Hadj-Moussa created an opening in the penalty area and finished from a narrow angle.

Konaté missed a chance to complete his hat-trick from the penalty spot when his shot crashed against the bar. But Salzburg had the last work when Daouda Guindo slammed the ball into the top corner a minute later to seal the Austrians’ first points of the campaign.

Feyenoord stand 21st in the 36-team table, just above the cut-off point for the play-off round, but with matches against Manchester City and Bayern Munich still to come. Their next game is in Manchester on November 26.