National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Salzburg or Austria Wien that keep their silverware dream alive.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Salzburg form and stats
Salzburg are steadily winning Tipico Bundesliga games and points here at Red Bull Arena. 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 7 games. This match is a Austrian Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
The Salzburg goalkeeper Cican Stankovic is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 281 minutes without conceding a goal in the Tipico Bundesliga.
It's back home for Salzburg, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hartberg away with the result 3-0. Sekou Koita, Patson Daka and Enock Mwepu found the net in that victory. Before that, Salzburg had a Tipico Bundesliga home game versus Ried which ended with a victory 3-0.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Salzburg, as the Tipico Bundesliga home game vs Austria Wien is only four days away.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Salzburg is on fire here. A stunning 25 from 7 league matches. Salzburg have conceded 9 in these home matches.
Austria Wien form and stats
Last season their Austrian Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.3-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Austria Wien in their Tipico Bundesliga matches away. When we have look at the Austrian Cup statistics, we find 3W-0D-0L. This is both home and away. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Austria, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Austria Wien's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Wattens that finished 2-2. Before that one, a nice away victory 4-0 at Admira.
As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Austria Wien's match history for similar games we find one match. The home team won one of these as expected, one of them by at least two goals. Austria Wien managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Tipico Bundesliga trip to Salzburg.
The visiting Austria have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 8 games. Austria are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Salzburg seven wins, two draws and Austria Wien one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Koita 12 goals |  P. Daka 11 goals |  M. Berisha 7 goals |
Salzburg missing players
Austria Wien missing players
| Salzburg | Austria Wien | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 71 | 41 | Scored | S | 20 | 54 | ||
| 37 | 24 | Conceded | C | 23 | 42 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 92% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 64% | 85% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 46% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 16.3 | 15.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 11.7 | ||
| 7.1 | 7.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 41% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 41% | ||
| 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 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 32 | 34 |
| 2 | Rapid Wien | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 33 |
| 3 | Sturm Graz | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 28 |
| 4 | LASK Linz | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 27 |
| 5 | Wattens | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 24 |
| 6 | Wolfsberger AC | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 10 | -3 | 21 |
| 7 | Austria Wien | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 7 | -1 | 18 |
| 8 | St. Polten | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Hartberg | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 17 | -13 | 15 |
| 10 | Ried | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -15 | 14 |
| 11 | Rheindorf Altach | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 19 | -19 | 11 |
| 12 | Admira | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 22 | -25 | 9 |