Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Gurten & Salzburg face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Austrian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Gurten and Salzburg.
Gurten form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Austrian Cup for Gurten, as the manager Madritsch led his troops to eliminate St. Martin i.M., and reach the 2nd Round. Last season, Gurten's Austrian Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.Gurten travelled for their previous game, a trip to Leoben that ended 1-1.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Bad Gleichenberg that ended 1-1.There will be little rest for Gurten after this match as they are travelling to Kalsdorf for a Regionalliga: Mitte game in only three days.
Salzburg form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Fugen in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. Nothing but glory last season for Salzburg, as they won the Austrian Cup.Salzburg have six points from their first three away games in the Tipico Bundesliga, meaning two victories and a loss.
Two away matches in a row for Salzburg, whose coach Jaissle could celebrate last time after the win against Austria Lustenau. As you can tell from the results above, Salzburg was very dominant against Austria Lustenau, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 6-0 (!) with Adamu, Okafor, Capaldo, Kjaergaard, Kameri and Fernando providing the goals. Capaldo got a match rating of 7.73 in that game, top player of the team. Capaldo scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Before that, Salzburg secured a home win against Austria Klagenfurt with the score 2-0.As mentioned earlier, Salzburg will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 13 wins (12 by two or more goals winning margin), 2 draws and 3 surprising defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Salzburg are hosting Wattens in the Tipico Bundesliga only four days away.
They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  F. Dos Santos Pedro 4 goals |  N. Okafor 3 goals |  N. Capaldo 2 goals |
Gurten missing players
Salzburg missing players
| Gurten | Salzburg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 7 | 18 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 34 | 21 | Scored | S | 26 | 64 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Conceded | C | 6 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 89% | 92% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 78% | 80% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 56% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 6.5 | ||
| 5.5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.6 | 2.8 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.6 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.9 | 15.7 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 7.5 | ||
| 32% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 35% | ||
| 7.9 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.6 | 8.6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | LASK Linz | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 16 |
| 2 | Salzburg | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 3 | Sturm Graz | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | Austria Lustenau | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 10 |
| 5 | Rapid Wien | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Wattens | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 7 | Hartberg | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 8 | Austria Wien | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 5 |
| 9 | Wolfsberger AC | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | Austria Klagenfurt | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 11 | Ried | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 4 |
| 12 | Rheindorf Altach | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -8 | 4 |
