On paper it looks like advantage Austria Wien in this game against St. Pölten, but the visitors will fight to the end. Here's our full match preview!
- Austria Wien have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- St. Pölten is in the worst form (0-3-3)
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Austria and St. Pölten.
Austria Wien form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Tipico Bundesliga this season. Austria Wien have only managed 2 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Generali Arena.
Austria's last game was hosting Hartberg and winning 3-1. Heartbreak before that as Austria lost 1-2 at Rheindorf Altach's place.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Austria's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played seven games, won five matches, drawn two and lost zero.
Austria has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Austria defense is not exactly impregnable. 20 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
St. Pölten form and stats
4-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for St. Pölten in their Tipico Bundesliga matches away. Pölten are desperate to end a twelve-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Wattens fixture. Pölten seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Pölten delivered a 3-3 draw playing at home against Rheindorf Altach in their previous match; a Tipico Bundesliga game. Prior to that match, the Pölten manager G. Zellhofer faced defeat when travelling to Admira and losing 0-2.
It looked so good for Pölten vs Rheindorf Altach, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 3-3 draw. As you can tell from the result, the match against Rheindorf Altach was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and St. Pölten playing away, we found three games. Results were two away wins, zero draws and one home win.
The travelling fans enjoy Pölten's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 11 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Pölten's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 20 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result St. Pölten - Austria 1-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Austria four wins, five draws and St. Pölten one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Schmidt 12 goals |  D. Hugy 8 goals |  M. Sarkaria 6 goals |
Austria Wien missing players
St. Pölten missing players
| Austria Wien | St. Pölten | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | 6 | Played | P | 4 | 15 | 30 |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 43 | 23 | 13 | Scored | S | 8 | 22 | 38 |
| 39 | 23 | 6 | Conceded | C | 5 | 25 | 54 |
| 90% | 87% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 93% | 90% |
| 77% | 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 73% |
| 50% | 53% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 57% |
| 33% | 47% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 10% | 13% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 27% | 20% |
| 53% | 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 47% | 47% |
| 30% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 27% | 23% |
| 27% | 33% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 33% | 40% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.2 | 12.9 | 16.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.3 | 8.5 |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 34% | 37% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 42% | 36% |
- Austria Wien have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- St. Pölten have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Pölten is in the worst form (0-3-3)
| 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 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 67 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 43 | 52 |
| 2 | Rapid Wien | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 43 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 18 | 45 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 42 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 21 | 42 |
| 4 | Sturm Graz | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 39 |
| 5 | Wolfsberger AC | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 40 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 33 |
| 6 | Wattens | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 30 |
| 7 | Hartberg | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 25 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 22 | -13 | 29 |
| 8 | Austria Wien | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 12 | -1 | 25 |
| 9 | St. Pölten | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 33 | 43 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 20 | -10 | 21 |
| 10 | Rheindorf Altach | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 27 | -23 | 21 |
| 11 | Ried | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 46 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 23 | -25 | 16 |
| 12 | Admira | 22 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 50 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 29 | -28 | 14 |