This is shaping up to be another appealing contest at Merkur Arena in the Admiral Bundesliga. Sturm Graz is in 1st position and receive Austria Klagenfurt in 4th position. Read all about the game here!
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 Sturm and Austria Klagenfurt.
Sturm Graz form and stats
The hosts won their first Admiral Bundesliga game here at Merkur Arena, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Sturm Graz last season were 12 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from 16 games.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Sturm Graz, as their goalkeeper Kjell Scherpen has completely shut out the opponents for 294 minutes in the Admiral Bundesliga.
The supporters are hoping that Sturm Graz will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-4 away defeat in the Champions League fixture against PSV.
Before that, Sturm had a Admiral Bundesliga home game versus LASK Linz which ended with a victory 2-0.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Sturm Graz home games with this odds we find 7 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Sturm Graz, as the Champions League home game vs PSV is only three days away.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Sturm Graz at home in the league. 2 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Austria Klagenfurt form and stats
A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Admiral Bundesliga, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 6 wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats from 16 matches.
Klagenfurt's last game was the home draw against Wolfsberger AC (2-2). The draw against Wolfsberger AC came from a losing position. The Austria Klagenfurt manager Pacult brought on Wernitznig as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Midfield player Cvetko was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.84/10. Cvetko scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 30 successful passes (of 37 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Wattens at their stadium, the result 3-1.It's early days yet, but Austria Klagenfurt has scored 3 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sturm nine wins, zero draws and Austria Klagenfurt one victory. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Włodarczyk 2 goals |   A. Irving 2 goals |  D. Affengruber 1 goals |
Sturm Graz missing players
Austria Klagenfurt missing players
| Sturm Graz | Austria Klagenfurt | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 8.5 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | 16 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 4.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| 56% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| Sturm Graz | Last season | Austria Klagenfurt | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 32 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 20 | 12 | Won | W | 6 | 11 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 16 | ||
| 57 | 32 | Scored | S | 28 | 45 | ||
| 29 | 15 | Conceded | C | 38 | 63 | ||
| 94% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 81% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 84% | ||
| 53% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 88% | 69% | ||
| 22% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 47% | ||
| 12% | 19% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 38% | 25% | ||
| 59% | 56% | BTTS | BTTS | 81% | 62% | ||
| 34% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 6% | 12% | ||
| 12% | 19% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 25% | ||
| 6.1 | 7.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 16 | 16.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 10.8 | ||
| 5.9 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.5 | ||
| 30% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 41% | ||
| 9.3 | 8.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.1 | 12.8 | ||
| 3 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sturm Graz | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Salzburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | Rapid Wien | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | Austria Klagenfurt | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Wolfsberger AC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Austria Wien | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| 7 | Hartberg | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Blau-Wei Linz | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Austria Lustenau | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 10 | LASK Linz | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Wattens | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 12 | Rheindorf Altach | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 32 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 67 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 11 | 45 | 49 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 32 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 57 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 14 | 28 | 42 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 32 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 54 | 38 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 35 |
| 4 | Rapid Wien | 32 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 50 | 47 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 25 | 3 | 25 |
| 5 | Austria Wien | 32 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 55 | 52 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 31 | 3 | 24 |
| 6 | Austria Klagenfurt | 32 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 45 | 63 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 38 | -18 | 23 |
