National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sturm Graz or Austria Salzburg that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Sturm nor Austria Salzburg 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.
Sturm Graz form and stats
Sturm Graz have reached this Austrian Cup stage through battling and winning against Austria Salzburg and Röthis. Sturm Graz participated in Austrian Cup the last season, where they reached the round of 16.Sturm Graz have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Tipico Bundesliga. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Sturm's previous fixture was a Austrian Cup game also played at their home, ending 2-0 versus Austria Salzburg. The home team are looking to repeat that performance.
In the game before, an away victory in the Tipico Bundesliga match versus Rapid Wien with a 2-1 scoreline.Sturm Graz are not conceding a lot of goals here at Merkur Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Austria Salzburg form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Sturm Graz and Telfs in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup.Two away games in a row for Austria Salzburg, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 vs Sturm Graz in the Austrian Cup.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Salzburger AK in the Regionalliga: Salzburg.Salzburg are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 33 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 16 wins, 6 draws and 11 defeats. Of the defeats, 6 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Hödl 3 goals | J. Zottl 3 goals |
Sturm Graz missing players
Austria Salzburg missing players
| Sturm Graz | Austria Salzburg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 52 | 24 | Scored | S | 18 | 39 | ||
| 25 | 15 | Conceded | C | 19 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 87% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 24% | ||
| 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.2 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 2.5 | ||
| 35% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 56% | ||
| 9.6 | 9.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 9 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.1 | ||
| 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 |
