National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Gurten or Hartberg that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Gurten nor Hartberg as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Gurten form and stats
Action has already taken place for Gurten in Austrian Cup as they have defeated Lustenau to reach the 2nd Round. Gurten participated in Austrian Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.Two home wins in a row for Gurten bring valid hopes of a third.
The Gurten supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Wels in Regionalliga: Mitte and win 4-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Gurten played a great game against Wels and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. F. Wimmleitner was absolutely essential when Gurten beat Wels 4-0, scoring three goals.
Ahead of that match, Gurten won a home game hosting Wolfsberger AC II (5-1).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Gurten as they are travelling to their away game against Gleisdorf 09 in the Regionalliga: Mitte. That match is three days after this one.
Hartberg form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Bad Gleichenberg in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. Last season their Austrian Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.The visitors are W2-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Tipico Bundesliga.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Admira in their previous outing. The Tipico Bundesliga match ended in a draw 1-1. The draw against Admira came from a losing position. The Hartberg manager K. Russ brought on Dario Tadić as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Mario Sonnleitner, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.44. Sonnleitner won 5 of 10 duels.
Before that one, a nice away victory 3-1 at Wolfsberger AC.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Hartberg are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Hartberg have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Gurten-Hartberg H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Gurten zero wins, Hartberg one win, three draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  F. Wimmleitner 11 goals |  J. Kreuzer 5 goals |   D. Tadic 4 goals |
Gurten missing players
Hartberg missing players
| Gurten | Hartberg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 51 | 30 | Scored | S | 26 | 37 | ||
| 31 | 16 | Conceded | C | 18 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 68% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 44% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 16% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 24% | ||
| 5.2 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.9 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 5.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 14 | ||
| 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 51% | 63% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 34% | ||
| 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 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 21 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 3 | Ried | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | -6 | 12 |
| 4 | Hartberg | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Admira | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 6 | Rheindorf Altach | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 9 |
| 7 | Wolfsberger AC | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 8 | Rapid Wien | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Austria Wien | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 10 | Austria Klagenfurt | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -5 | 8 |
| 11 | LASK Linz | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 6 |
| 12 | Wattens | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 5 |