St. Pölten will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind LASK Linz.
- All of LASK Linz's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
LASK Linz could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Austrian Cup game only three sleeps ago.
St. Pölten form and stats
St. Pölten's results here at NV ARENA in the Tipico Bundesliga have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
Pölten's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Wolfsberger AC (placed 6th). Ahead of that match, Pölten lost 0-2 at home to Wolfsberger AC.
The manager R. Ibertsberger will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Ried in only four days.
The Pölten fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 8 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Pölten with 17 goals conceded in these matches.
LASK Linz form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Tipico Bundesliga travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Impressive finishing from J. Eggestein (2), H. Balić (2) and M. Potzmann secured the home win 5-3 against Austria Klagenfurt (after extra-time) in their previous game. Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Rapid Wien.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Austria Klagenfurt (after extra-time) was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 8 goals, will the fun continue today?
After this away game LASK return home for a Tipico Bundesliga game against Sturm Graz. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far LASK have scored 9 goals in 7 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. LASK have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
LASK Linz - St. Pölten 4-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Pölten one win, three draws and LASK Linz six victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Schmidt 10 goals |  D. Hugy 7 goals |   J. Eggestein 6 goals |
St. Pölten missing players
LASK Linz missing players
| St. Pölten | LASK Linz | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 26 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 30 |
| 29 | 17 | 10 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 93% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 87% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 73% | 62% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 67% |
| 53% | 50% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 33% |
| 20% | 12% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 47% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 57% | 47% |
| 27% | 25% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 47% |
| 33% | 38% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2.2 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.7 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.3 | 9.6 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 19.7 | 15.7 | 17.3 |
| 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.6 | 6.3 |
| 40% | 31% | 21% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 32% |
- All of LASK Linz's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- LASK Linz haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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. Pölten | 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 |