Delightful dogfight as daring Sturm Graz duel with determined Austria Wien

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Competition: Austria Admiral Bundesliga
Competition: Sun 10.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Merkur Arena (16764 seats)

The Sturm Graz & Austria Wien bosses Ilzer and Schmid are both worrying about and feeling excited about this key fixture in the top regions of the Admiral Bundesliga table.

Insights:
  • Sturm Graz have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Austria Wien have the most matches under the total-line (15) in Admiral Bundesliga

Sturm Graz and Austria Wien 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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Sturm Graz form and stats

Sturm Graz have collected 19 points from their Admiral Bundesliga home games so far after 5-4-2. Two home wins in a row for Sturm bring valid hopes of a third.

A strong away win for Sturm Graz against Wolfsberger AC the last match, as Sarkaria and Højlund were on target. The attacker Sarkaria won the honour of being "man of the match" for Sturm Graz with the rating of 8.8/10. Sarkaria scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Salzburg (0-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sturm handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, three draws and two defeats.

Sturm Graz can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 23 times. Sturm Graz's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Austria Wien form and stats

As the visiting team in Admiral Bundesliga matches, Austria Wien have produced an overall stat of 4-4-3 so far.

Austria's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Austria Klagenfurt that finished 1-1. Mühl was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.65. The defender Mühl hit two key passes and won 6 of 7 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Rapid Vienna that ended 1-1.

Austria Wien are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, two draws and two defeats. From a total of four matches.

Austria Wien find the net regularly in their away games. 15 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. 12 goals have been conceded by Austria in these games. More than 55 percent of these were conceded from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of matches.

Head 2 Head

Austria Wien - Sturm Graz 2-1 was the story when these two teams last did battle, some time ago this season. The match official pulled out his red card when these teams last played each other, and the culprit was Kuen (Sturm Graz). Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Sturm wins - draws - Austria Wien wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less. The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being hostile, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

Sturm GrazM. Sarkaria
M. Sarkaria
11 goals
Sturm GrazK. Yeboah
K. Yeboah
11 goals
Sturm GrazJ. Jantscher
J. Jantscher
10 goals

Sturm Graz missing players

Austria Wien missing players

Sturm Graz Austria Wien
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 2 Played P 2 12 25
12 6 0 Won W 0 4 9
7 4 0 Drew D 0 5 11
6 2 2 Lost L 2 3 5
51 26 1 Scored S 0 16 35
34 17 6 Conceded C 2 13 26
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
88% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 76%
76% 83% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 36%
52% 58% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 20%
20% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
64% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 58% 64%
28% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 24%
8% 8% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 20%
 
5.7 6.6 9 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.6 4.6
4.6 4.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 7 4.6 4.6
1.6 1.5 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.3 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
15.6 18.4 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11.8 12.8
5.2 5.7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.5 4.6
39% 38% 12% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 30%
 
11 9.7 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 12.2 12
3.8 3.1 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.2 3.4
Key stats in Admiral Bundesliga this season:
  • Austria Wien have the most matches under the total-line (15) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Sturm Graz have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sturm Graz have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Sturm Graz have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Sturm Graz have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Sturm Graz 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 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 Vienna 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.