National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's SV Horn II or St. Pölten 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.
SV Horn II form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Austrian Cup for Horn, as the manager Landerl led his troops to eliminate Draßburg and St. Pölten, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season their Austrian Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.SV Horn II have collected seven points from their first three Erste Liga games here at Sparkasse Horn Arena, a promising start.
SV Horn II's previous fixture was a Austrian Cup game also played at home, finishing 1-0 against St. Pölten. The home team hope to to repeat that performance.
A 1-1 draw away in the Erste Liga before that, with Austria Wien II the opponent.The Horn fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches.
St. Pölten form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated SV Horn II and Leobendorf in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. St. Pölten was sent out of Austrian Cup in the round of 16 last season.St. Pölten are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Erste Liga, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Two away games in a row for St. Pölten, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 against SV Horn II in the Austrian Cup.
It was a Erste Liga defeat before that one as the away game against Admira wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, St. Pölten has managed 6 goals and let in 3 from 3 matches.
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings with these squads: SV Horn II won five, St. Pölten were winners in four and we saw one draw. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Mijić 3 goals |   L. Hartwig 3 goals | B. Yilmaz 2 goals |
SV Horn II missing players
St. Pölten missing players
| SV Horn II | St. Pölten | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 32 | 16 | Scored | S | 14 | 42 | ||
| 26 | 14 | Conceded | C | 16 | 37 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 56% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 40% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 32% | ||
| 6.3 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.3 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11.1 | 9.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 10.5 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 4.8 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 36% | ||
| 9.2 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 9 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Amstetten | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | SV Horn II | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Admira | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Blau-Wei Linz | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | St. Pölten | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | First Vienna | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Grazer AK | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | Floridsdorfer AC | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Liefering | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Sturm Graz II | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 11 | Lafnitz | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | Vorwarts Steyr | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 6 |
| 13 | Austria Wien II | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 4 |
| 14 | Rapid Wien II | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 4 |
| 15 | Dornbirn | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -6 | 2 |
| 16 | Kapfenberger SV | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -10 | 2 |
