Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Admira & Salzburg face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Austrian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Admira nor Salzburg as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Admira form and stats
Last season, Admira's Austrian Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.This stadium, Red Bull Arena, has been a fortress for Admira in the Erste Liga so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 5-0-1.
The Admira supporters got no joy from their last game, a Austrian Cup duel also played here at Red Bull Arena: A 0-4 defeat against Salzburg.
Before that, Admira had a Erste Liga home game versus Dornbirn which ended with a victory 1-0.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Admira had similar winning odds as today, and found 5 games. In these, the hosts won 1, drew 1 and lost 3. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Admira lost 1 similar game by at least two goals.
The Admira manager Pätzold has got the team scoring with 13 from 6 home games in the league. On the other hand, Admira have conceded 8 goals.
Salzburg form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Salzburg, as they won the Austrian Cup.Salzburg have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 15 points collected from 6 Tipico Bundesliga games. 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat is the record so far.
Two away games in a row for Salzburg, whose coach Jaissle could celebrate last time after the Austrian Cup win against Admira.
Before that one, a nice away victory 3-1 at Austria Wien.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Salzburg given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 16 matches with 12 wins as expected, 2 draws and 2 surprise home wins. The favourites won 11 of these games by at least two goals.
It's not easy to score on Salzburg as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Admira-Salzburg H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Admira one win, Salzburg six wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  J. Chikwubuike Adamu 6 goals |  N. Okafor 5 goals | B. Šeško 4 goals |
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| Admira | Salzburg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 30 | 54 | ||
| 45 | 26 | Conceded | C | 7 | 23 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 71% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 72% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 4.3 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.8 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.5 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.9 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 8.9 | 9.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.9 | 15.4 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 6.5 | ||
| 44% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 33% | ||
| 10.7 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.9 | 9.3 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SV Horn II | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 26 |
| 2 | Floridsdorfer AC | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 22 |
| 3 | First Vienna | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Amstetten | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | St. Polten | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Admira | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 20 |
| 7 | Blau-Weiß Linz | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| 8 | Lafnitz | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Grazer AK | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 18 |
| 10 | Sturm Graz II | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 15 |
| 11 | Dornbirn | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 12 | Austria Wien II | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 14 |
| 13 | Liefering | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 14 | Rapid Wien II | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | -8 | 10 |
| 15 | Vorwarts Steyr | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -9 | 10 |
| 16 | Kapfenberger SV | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -20 | 3 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Salzburg | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 21 | 29 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 27 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 22 |
| 4 | Austria Klagenfurt | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 13 | -2 | 17 |
| 5 | Austria Wien | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Wolfsberger AC | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 7 | Rapid Wien | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Wattens | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -6 | 14 |
| 9 | Austria Lustenau | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -8 | 12 |
| 10 | Rheindorf Altach | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -11 | 11 |
| 11 | Ried | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -9 | 11 |
| 12 | Hartberg | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
