Austria Wien expected to fight losing battle when facing Sturm Graz

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Competition: Austria Admiral Bundesliga
Competition: Sun 12.March
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Merkur Arena (16764 seats)

2nd position in the Admiral Bundesliga table for Sturm Graz at present, a fine campaign. The home team followers pray for more glory as 5th-placed Austria Wien visit Merkur Arena.

Insights:
  • Sturm Graz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Austria Wien have the most points from losing position (13) in Admiral Bundesliga

This could be an engrossing match with lots of spark and energy as both sides are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Bring it on!

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Sturm Graz form and stats

22 points is a decent return from 10 Admiral Bundesliga games here at Merkur Arena for Sturm Graz. The data says 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.

A strong away win for Sturm Graz against Austria Lustenau the last match, as Horvat and Affengruber were on target. The attacker Sarkaria was declared "man of the match" for Sturm with a rating of 8.61/10. Sarkaria served one assist, hit seven key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Austria Klagenfurt (1-2).

Sturm Graz have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Merkur Arena with 17 goals in 10 league matches. From these home matches, Sturm have conceded only 8 goals.

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Austria Wien form and stats

Playing away, Austria Wien have won 4 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Admiral Bundesliga this season.

Two trips in a row for Austria Wien, whose coach Wimmer could celebrate last time after the win against Ried. Martins was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.03. The defender Martins served one assist, hit one key pass and won 8 of 14 duels.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Hartberg.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 15 of this club's 18 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

Austria has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 17 goals from 10 games. Austria Wien struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 15 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Austria Wien - Sturm Graz 0-3 was the outcome when these participants formerly played each other, some time ago this season. Sturm Graz-Austria Wien H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sturm Graz four wins, Austria Wien four wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Austria WienH. Tabakovic
H. Tabakovic
7 goals
Austria WienD. Fitz
D. Fitz
6 goals
Austria WienA. Gruber
A. Gruber
5 goals

Sturm Graz missing players

Austria Wien missing players

Sturm Graz Austria Wien
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
12 7 2 Won W 1 4 9
6 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
2 2 1 Lost L 1 3 6
32 17 5 Scored S 4 17 34
14 8 3 Conceded C 6 15 28
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
80% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 85%
45% 60% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 80%
10% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 35%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
55% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 60%
40% 40% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
15% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 30% 25%
 
6.1 7.7 9 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 5.9 6
4.2 4.6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 4.7 4.6
1.6 1.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.2 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
16.6 17.3 16.7 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 13.8 14.9
6.2 7.2 7.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 5 4.5
26% 24% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 34% 37%
 
9.1 8.2 7 Shots against (avg) S A 16 12.1 12
2.8 2.5 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 4.7 4.4
Key stats in Admiral Bundesliga this season:
  • Austria Wien have the most points from losing position (13) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Sturm Graz have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sturm Graz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sturm Graz have won significantly more corners at home than 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 20 16 3 1 46 12 10 7 3 0 18 3 10 9 0 1 28 9 34 51
2 Sturm Graz 20 12 6 2 32 14 10 7 1 2 17 8 10 5 5 0 15 6 18 42
3 LASK Linz 20 10 7 3 36 24 10 5 3 2 19 15 10 5 4 1 17 9 12 37
4 Rapid Vienna 20 9 3 8 32 24 10 4 1 5 16 14 10 5 2 3 16 10 8 30
5 Austria Wien 20 9 5 6 34 28 10 5 2 3 17 13 10 4 3 3 17 15 6 29
6 WSG Tirol 20 8 4 8 32 33 10 3 3 4 13 19 10 5 1 4 19 14 -1 28
7 Austria Klagenfurt 20 8 3 9 32 36 10 3 1 6 12 17 10 5 2 3 20 19 -4 27
8 Austria Lustenau 20 5 6 9 24 35 10 4 3 3 15 17 10 1 3 6 9 18 -11 21
9 Wolfsberger AC 20 6 2 12 35 40 10 1 1 8 15 24 10 5 1 4 20 16 -5 20
10 Hartberg 20 5 2 13 20 39 10 3 1 6 12 20 10 2 1 7 8 19 -19 17
11 Rheindorf Altach 20 4 4 12 20 41 10 2 3 5 11 16 10 2 1 7 9 25 -21 16
12 Ried 20 3 5 12 14 31 10 2 3 5 10 16 10 1 2 7 4 15 -17 14

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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.