Wolfsberger AC supporters put their faith in manager Schmid to deliver victory against Hartberg

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Competition: Austria Admiral Bundesliga
Competition: Fri 21.April
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Lavanttal Arena (8100 seats)

This is a vital clash in the cellar of the Admiral Bundesliga, with both Wolfsberger AC and Hartberg undergoing more worry than delight. This game is a classic "six-pointer" with the host team at 9th and the visitors in 11th spot.

Insights:
  • Wolfsberger AC have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Hartberg have the fewest points (7) away in Admiral Bundesliga

Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's agree to expect an animated match!

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Wolfsberger AC form and stats

Wolfsberger AC's struggle is real here at Lavanttal Arena with only 4 points collected from 11 Admiral Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-9.

A good away victory last time out for Wolfsberger, who won 3-1 against Austria Lustenau. The striker Malone was declared "man of the match" for Wolfsberger AC with the rating of 8.11/10. Malone signed up for two assists and hit three key passes.

Prior to that, an away loss at Wattens.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Wolfsberger have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 4 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 0 and lost 1.

Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 25 latest league matches highlights that 19 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.

Wolfsberger AC has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Wolfsberger AC with 25 goals conceded in these matches.

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Hartberg form and stats

There's been little loot from Hartberg's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 11 away games in the Admiral Bundesliga. Hartberg only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 1 draw. When Hartberg is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Ried, Hartberg and Rheindorf Altach is teams we like to compare Wolfsberger AC with.

Hartberg delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Rheindorf Altach in their previous match. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Hartberg's duel with Rheindorf Altach. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Prokop found the equalizer. The draw against Rheindorf Altach came from a losing position. The Hartberg manager Schopp brought on Prokop as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Heil got a match rating of 7.62 in that game, top player of the team. Heil scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 58 successful passes (of 72 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Ried with the score of 3-1.

Hartberg are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Hartberg struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 20 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the sides met previously this campaign; Hartberg - Wolfsberger AC 2-1. Previous ten meetings with these sides: Wolfsberger won four, Hartberg were winners in three and we saw three draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Wolfsberger ACT. Baribo
T. Baribo
13 goals
Wolfsberger ACM. Malone
M. Malone
6 goals
HartbergD. Tadic
D. Tadic
6 goals

Wolfsberger AC missing players

Hartberg missing players

Wolfsberger AC Hartberg
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
25 12 3 Played P 3 12 25
8 2 1 Won W 2 3 6
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 4
14 9 2 Lost L 1 8 15
39 16 4 Scored S 4 11 27
46 25 5 Conceded C 2 21 46
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
84% 83% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 58% 76%
80% 75% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 58% 64%
48% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 32%
20% 25% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 16%
76% 83% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 42% 56%
16% 8% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 16%
12% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 42% 32%
 
5 4.6 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4 3.6
6 4.9 4 Corners against (avg) C A 2 6.5 5.6
1.5 1.6 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2 2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.6 10.5 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 13 10.8 10.9
4.2 3.7 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.5 3.6
37% 36% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 26% 30%
 
13.6 12.8 12.3 Shots against (avg) S A 10.7 15.5 14.1
4.7 4.5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.5 5
Key stats in Admiral Bundesliga this season:
  • Hartberg have the fewest points (7) away in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC have the fewest points (4) at home in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC have the most conceded goals (25) at home in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC have the most matches over the total-line (20) in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC have the the worst goal difference (-10) at home in Admiral Bundesliga
  • Wolfsberger AC haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 49 13 11 7 4 0 19 4 11 10 0 1 30 9 36 55
2 Sturm Graz 22 14 6 2 37 15 11 8 1 2 20 9 11 6 5 0 17 6 22 48
3 LASK Linz 22 10 8 4 38 28 11 5 3 3 19 17 11 5 5 1 19 11 10 38
4 Rapid Wien 22 10 3 9 34 26 11 5 1 5 18 14 11 5 2 4 16 12 8 33
5 Austria Wien 22 10 5 7 37 31 11 6 2 3 19 13 11 4 3 4 18 18 6 32
6 Austria Klagenfurt 22 9 3 10 35 40 11 4 1 6 13 17 11 5 2 4 22 23 -5 30
7 Wattens 22 8 4 10 32 37 11 3 3 5 13 21 11 5 1 5 19 16 -5 28
8 Austria Lustenau 22 7 6 9 29 37 11 5 3 3 19 19 11 2 3 6 10 18 -8 27
9 Wolfsberger AC 22 6 3 13 35 41 11 1 1 9 15 25 11 5 2 4 20 16 -6 21
10 Ried 22 4 6 12 16 32 11 2 4 5 10 16 11 2 2 7 6 16 -16 18
11 Hartberg 22 5 3 14 22 42 11 3 2 6 14 22 11 2 1 8 8 20 -20 18
12 Rheindorf Altach 22 4 5 13 22 44 11 2 3 6 12 18 11 2 2 7 10 26 -22 17

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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.