Soccer betting preview: Hartberg welcomes Admira in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Austria Admiral Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 16.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: PROfertil ARENA (4635 seats)

Very important face-off in the bottom section of the Admiral Bundesliga, with both Hartberg and Admira experiencing more stress than bliss. This game is a classic "six-pointer" with the team playing at home positioned 10th and the away side in 11th position.

Insights:
  • Admira have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Hartberg and Admira should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Hartberg form and stats

Hartberg's struggle is real here at PROfertil ARENA with only 10 points collected from 11 Admiral Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-4-5. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in ten attempts.

Stress levels are on the rise for Hartberg's attacking players as they have now played 657 minutes without scoring in a league game. Heil was their last goal scorer.

Hartberg drew their last game, 0-0 away at Ried. Midfield player Aydin got a match rating of 7.41 in that game, the max score being 10. Aydin hit one key pass.

Preceding that match was the home game against Wattens that was lost 0-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Hartberg perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Hartberg as a small favourite), we find seven games. Hartberg has won two of these, drawn one and lost four.

Hartberg has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Hartberg have conceded 18 from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Hartberg has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Admira form and stats

Playing away, Admira have won 2 games, drawn 6 and suffered 3 defeats in the Admiral Bundesliga this season. Admira are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played eight in a row without losing.

Admira delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against LASK Linz in their previous game. Defender Lukačević was the best team player with a rating of 7.83. Lukačević scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 9 of 13 duels.

Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Rheindorf Altach.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Admira in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Admira, two draws and two defeats.

Admira have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 14 goals have been scored. As for defending, Admira rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 17 goals from these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams in this fixture also encountered each other earlier on this match year: Hartberg - Admira 1-1. Hartberg-Admira H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hartberg seven wins, Admira one win, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). Tadic likes to face Admira and have scored 7 goals in these encounters.

Top Goalscorers

HartbergD. Tadic
D. Tadic
8 goals
AdmiraR. Kerschbaum
R. Kerschbaum
8 goals
AdmiraS. Mustapha
S. Mustapha
4 goals

Hartberg missing players

Admira missing players

Hartberg Admira
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 13 3 Played P 4 13 26
5 2 0 Won W 1 2 5
10 5 0 Drew D 3 8 11
11 6 3 Lost L 0 3 10
29 14 1 Scored S 5 16 30
36 19 4 Conceded C 3 19 34
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 85% 92%
73% 69% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 85% 81%
38% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 54% 46%
23% 23% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 31% 19%
12% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
54% 62% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 69% 58%
19% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 23% 23%
38% 38% 67% Failed to Score F T 25% 23% 27%
 
4.4 4.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 3.6 4.3
5.7 5.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.3 5.3
2 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.8 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
10.5 10.4 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 9.8 10.5 11.5
3.3 3.2 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4 4.2
34% 33% 8% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 31% 28%
 
13.9 13.7 11 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 14.3 12.6
5 5.3 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 4.2 4
Key stats in Admiral Bundesliga this season:
  • Admira have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 4 1 50 13 11 10 1 0 33 5 11 7 3 1 17 8 37 55
2 Sturm Graz 22 10 7 5 46 32 11 5 4 2 23 16 11 5 3 3 23 16 14 37
3 Wolfsberger AC 22 11 4 7 34 32 11 7 1 3 20 14 11 4 3 4 14 18 2 37
4 Austria Wien 22 8 9 5 31 23 11 4 5 2 16 11 11 4 4 3 15 12 8 33
5 Rapid Wien 22 8 7 7 35 31 11 6 1 4 21 14 11 2 6 3 14 17 4 31
6 Austria Klagenfurt 22 7 9 6 31 33 11 4 6 1 17 15 11 3 3 5 14 18 -2 30
7 Ried 22 7 8 7 31 41 11 6 5 0 21 15 11 1 3 7 10 26 -10 29
8 LASK Linz 22 6 7 9 28 29 11 3 4 4 12 12 11 3 3 5 16 17 -1 25
9 Wattens 22 5 8 9 30 42 11 2 6 3 17 16 11 3 2 6 13 26 -12 23
10 Hartberg 22 5 7 10 29 35 11 2 4 5 14 18 11 3 3 5 15 17 -6 22
11 Admira 22 4 8 10 25 31 11 2 2 7 11 14 11 2 6 3 14 17 -6 20
12 Rheindorf Altach 22 3 4 15 10 38 11 1 2 8 5 20 11 2 2 7 5 18 -28 13

Read more about Admiral Bundesliga

The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the top level football league in Austria. It was founded in 1974, but there has been an Austrian league championship since 1911. Since the 1950s Austrian football has been dominated by Rapid Wien, Austria Wien and recently Red Bull Salzburg.