National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Austria Salzburg or Salzburg that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Austria Salzburg form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Austrian Cup for Austria Salzburg, as the manager Schaider led his troops to eliminate Wolfurt, and reach the 2nd Round.The Austria Salzburg coach Schaider and his side return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Hohenems.
Before that, Salzburg had a Regionalliga: West home game versus Rot-Weiss Rankweil which ended with a victory 9-0.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Austria Salzburg as they are travelling to their away game against Rheindorf Altach II in the Regionalliga: West. That match is four days after this one.
Salzburg form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Ardagger in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. Last season their Austrian Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Tipico Bundesliga travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
Salzburg have a lot to rectify after their shock defeat (0-1) to Blau-Wei Linz in their previous outing, played in front of their own supporters. Attacker Koita got a player rating of 7.64 in the game. "Man of the match" Koita hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, the Champions League win away at Benfica. 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 11 matches with 9 wins as expected, 1 draw and 1 surprise home win. The favourites won 9 of these games by at least two goals.
The schedule is very tough for Salzburg now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Tipico Bundesliga game at Austria Lustenau is waiting in only four days.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 11 goals in 4 league games away this season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Sorda 7 goals | Y. Fötschl 6 goals | M. Theiner 4 goals |
Austria Salzburg missing players
Salzburg missing players
| Austria Salzburg | Salzburg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | ||
| 71 | 42 | Scored | S | 24 | 50 | ||
| 28 | 18 | Conceded | C | 6 | 27 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 92% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 52% | ||
| 56% | 69% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 24% | ||
| 60% | 77% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 36% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | ||
| 2.2 | 2.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.7 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.9 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 5.3 | 6.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.3 | 12.7 | ||
| 2.8 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5 | ||
| 99% | 80% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 40% | ||
| 2.7 | 1.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 8.8 | ||
| 1 | 0.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 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 | Salzburg | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 19 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Austria Klagenfurt | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Hartberg | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | -2 | 12 |
| 6 | Rheindorf Altach | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 11 |
| 7 | Rapid Wien | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | Wolfsberger AC | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 9 | Blau-Wei Linz | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 8 |
| 10 | WSG Tirol | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -7 | 6 |
| 11 | Austria Wien | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 12 | Austria Lustenau | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 2 |
