Sturm Graz should be expected winners of this home game against Wattens, if the league standings are thought to provide some clues. Or are we looking at a possible?
- Sturm Graz have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Admiral Bundesliga
- Wattens have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
These are active days for the team playing at home, as they had a game only three days ago in the Europa League. This match was also played here at Merkur Arena. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Wattens have had more rest.
Sturm Graz form and stats
Sturm Graz have collected 10 points from their Admiral Bundesliga home games so far after 3-1-1.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jörg Siebenhandl not having conceded a league goal in 435 minutes.
The home club members witnessed a 0-0 draw vs Lazio in the Europa League last time out and are looking for a victory here. Defender Dante got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.8/10. Dante hit one key pass and won 5 of 5 duels.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Austria Wien and winning 3-0.There will be little rest for Sturm after this match as they are travelling to Lazio for a Europa League game in only four days.
A decent goal production from Sturm Graz in their home games so far, with 8 goals from 5 league matches. Defensively Sturm Graz have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 5 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Wattens form and stats
2 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Wattens playing as the away team in the Admiral Bundesliga this season.
Wattens failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Rapid Vienna (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 0-5. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Rapid Vienna was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind. Defender Behounek was the best team player with a rating of 6.85. Behounek won 4 of 6 duels.
Preceding that game was the away victory against LASK Linz with the score of 4-1.Take note that 8 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with at least three goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Wattens's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Wattens have conceded 8 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Sturm Graz have pulled off a sequence of 10 consecutive games without defeat (8-2-0) when playing Wattens.Top Goalscorers
  T. Prica 5 goals |  N. Prelec 3 goals |
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| Sturm Graz | Wattens | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 19 |
| 90% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 80% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 80% | 80% |
| 10% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 20% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 80% | 70% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 20% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 30% |
| 5.7 | 7.2 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| 3.9 | 4.8 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 2 | 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17.5 | 18.4 | 25 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 11.8 | 11.8 |
| 6.6 | 6.8 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 3.6 |
| 26% | 24% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 40% | 36% |
| 7.7 | 6.2 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 16 | 14.4 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 9.5 | 8.2 | 6.6 |
- All of Wattens's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sturm Graz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sturm Graz have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Admiral Bundesliga
- Sturm Graz have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Wattens have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Wattens 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 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 23 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 4 | Rapid Vienna | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Wolfsberger AC | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 14 |
| 6 | Austria Klagenfurt | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 13 | -1 | 14 |
| 7 | Austria Wien | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Austria Lustenau | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -6 | 12 |
| 9 | Wattens | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 11 |
| 10 | Rheindorf Altach | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -11 | 8 |
| 11 | Hartberg | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -9 | 7 |
| 12 | Ried | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -11 | 5 |
