Perhaps a welcome break from league football as LASK Linz & Stripfing face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Austrian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Not much time to rest for the host team, as they were involved in a Tipico Bundesliga game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Austria Klagenfurt, so at least LASK Linz are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
LASK Linz form and stats
LASK have reached this Austrian Cup stage through battling and winning against Mannsdorf. Last season, LASK Linz's Austrian Cup journey ended in the final.LASK Linz have played 4 Tipico Bundesliga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). LASK are slowly digging their own grave here at Raiffeisen Arena with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Wolfsberger AC match.
LASK shared the glory with Austria Klagenfurt in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Midfielder Sascha Horvath was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.81 (out of ten) in that game. Horvath served one assist, hit seven key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 37 successful passes (of 45 total).
Before that game, the home loss against Austria Wien with the scoreline 0-2.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Tipico Bundesliga game versus Admira in only three days. This game is also played here at Raiffeisen Arena.
LASK have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 7 goals have been conceded.
Stripfing form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Bruck/Leitha in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. They also participated in Austrian Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Stripfing lost away at Wiener Viktoria (0-1) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.
A draw for Stripfing before that, at their own venue hosting Wiener SC (1-1).After this away game Stripfing return home for a Regionalliga: Ost game against Admira II. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  O. Fotr 4 goals | P. Eler 3 goals | A. Alaca 2 goals |
LASK Linz missing players
Stripfing missing players
| LASK Linz | Stripfing | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 9 | 15 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 36 | 21 | Scored | S | 22 | 43 | ||
| 40 | 21 | Conceded | C | 6 | 21 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 15% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 62% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 24% | ||
| 6.2 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.8 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.6 | 8.3 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.6 | ||
| 27% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 48% | ||
| 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 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 24 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 17 |
| 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 | Austria Klagenfurt | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Rapid Vienna | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 10 | Austria Wien | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | LASK Linz | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 7 |
| 12 | Wattens | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 5 |