National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Imst or LASK Linz that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Imst form and stats
Imst have not come this way in the Austrian Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Schwarz-Wei Bregenz.Imst travelled for their previous game, a trip to Röthis that ended 1-1.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Kufstein that ended 1-1.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Rot-Weiss Rankweil are coming to town in three days.
LASK Linz form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Röthis in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. They also participated in Austrian Cup last season. This ended in the semi-finals.LASK Linz are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Tipico Bundesliga, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
LASK delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Hartberg in their previous match. Defender Andrade was the best team player with a rating of 7.61. Andrade won 4 of 6 duels.
The game before was the Europa League-battle against Liverpool, a home defeat (1-3).
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the LASK Linz manager Sageder as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Wolfsberger AC.
The visiting LASK Linz have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. As opposed to that, LASK have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  B. Schmiederer 3 goals |   R. Zulj 3 goals | S. Lorenz 2 goals |
Imst missing players
LASK Linz missing players
| Imst | LASK Linz | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 55 | 26 | Scored | S | 22 | 60 | ||
| 36 | 21 | Conceded | C | 9 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 60% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 55% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 45% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 24% | ||
| 68% | 82% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 16% | ||
| 3 | 1.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.6 | 0.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6.4 | 3.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.7 | 11.2 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 4.4 | ||
| 92% | 217% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 50% | ||
| 3.4 | 2.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 8.5 | ||
| 1.6 | 0.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 2.6 | ||
| 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 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 19 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 3 | LASK Linz | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Austria Klagenfurt | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Hartberg | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | -2 | 12 |
| 6 | Rheindorf Altach | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 11 |
| 7 | Rapid Vienna | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | Wolfsberger AC | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | Blau-Weiß Linz | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 8 |
| 10 | Austria Wien | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 11 | Wattens | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 5 |
| 12 | Austria Lustenau | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 2 |
