Admiral Bundesliga match prediction: Little separates Hartberg and WSG Tirol in quality

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Competition: Austria Admiral Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 22.October
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: PROfertil ARENA (4635 seats)

WSG Tirol know they are going on a hard visit to Hartberg and their PROfertil ARENA. This preview has all the data you need before the fixture.

Insights:
  • All of Hartberg's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • WSG Tirol have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

The visiting WSG Tirol played their last game only four days ago, a Austrian Cup match.

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Hartberg form and stats

The story so far in the Admiral Bundesliga for Hartberg at their home stadium (PROfertil ARENA) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Hartberg, their manager Schmidt and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

Hartberg faced defeat in their previous match, away at Rheindorf Altach (0-1). Heartbreak for Hartberg in their last match as Rheindorf Altach's Nuhiu scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

A strong away win before that one, visiting LASK Linz and winning 3-0.

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 6 games. Hartberg has won 3 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hartberg as they are travelling to their away game against Rapid Vienna in the Admiral Bundesliga. That match is four days after this one.

Hartberg are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.

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WSG Tirol form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for WSG Tirol so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-4 (win-draw-lose).

This match can not go any worse than the last one, a Austrian Cup home defeat versus Rapid Vienna with 1-4 on the scoreboard.

Before that, WSG Tirol secured a home win against Austria Lustenau with the score 3-2.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with WSG Tirol playing away and similar expectations, we found 7 relevant matches. Results were 4 Tirol wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 10 of this team's 12 latest league fixtures have ended with three or more goals.

WSG Tirol are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. WSG Tirol struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 10 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

WSG Tirol have won all of the 4 most recent duels versus this team. Something to take note of?

WSG Tirol - Hartberg 2-1 was the score in these sides' previous head to head match, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

HartbergD. Tadic
D. Tadic
5 goals
WSG TirolT. Prica
T. Prica
5 goals
WSG TirolS. Ogrinec
S. Ogrinec
3 goals

Hartberg missing players

WSG Tirol missing players

Hartberg WSG Tirol
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 2 6 12
3 2 0 Won W 1 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
7 3 1 Lost L 1 4 6
12 6 0 Scored S 3 9 17
19 9 3 Conceded C 3 10 23
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 92%
64% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 83%
27% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 42%
18% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 25%
45% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 75%
27% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 8%
36% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 25%
 
3.1 1.6 3 Corners for (avg) C F 8 5.3 4.8
6.5 4.8 10 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.8 5.1
1.6 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.3 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.1 9.6 6 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 11.5 11.8
2.7 3.2 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.2 3.9
40% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 36% 36%
 
17.3 15.8 23 Shots against (avg) S A 14 16.3 14.4
5.6 4.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8.5 8.8 6.8
Key stats in Admiral Bundesliga this season:
  • All of Hartberg's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of WSG Tirol's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Hartberg have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Hartberg have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Hartberg haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • WSG Tirol have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • WSG Tirol haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 12 9 2 1 29 8 6 4 2 0 11 3 6 5 0 1 18 5 21 29
2 Sturm Graz 12 8 3 1 22 8 7 5 1 1 13 5 5 3 2 0 9 3 14 27
3 LASK Linz 12 6 4 2 23 16 6 3 1 2 11 11 6 3 3 0 12 5 7 22
4 Austria Klagenfurt 12 5 2 5 21 23 6 2 1 3 7 10 6 3 1 2 14 13 -2 17
5 Austria Wien 12 5 3 4 21 21 6 2 2 2 9 10 6 3 1 2 12 11 0 15
6 Wolfsberger AC 12 4 2 6 24 25 6 1 1 4 10 15 6 3 1 2 14 10 -1 14
7 Rapid Vienna 11 4 2 5 14 12 5 1 1 3 5 8 6 3 1 2 9 4 2 14
8 WSG Tirol 12 4 2 6 17 23 6 2 2 2 8 13 6 2 0 4 9 10 -6 14
9 Austria Lustenau 12 3 3 6 16 24 5 2 1 2 8 12 7 1 2 4 8 12 -8 12
10 Rheindorf Altach 12 3 2 7 15 26 7 2 1 4 10 14 5 1 1 3 5 12 -11 11
11 Ried 12 3 2 7 9 18 6 2 1 3 6 9 6 1 1 4 3 9 -9 11
12 Hartberg 11 3 1 7 12 19 5 2 0 3 6 9 6 1 1 4 6 10 -7 10

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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.