National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Traiskirchen or Wattens that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Tipico Bundesliga.
Traiskirchen form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Austrian Cup for Traiskirchen, as the manager Kleer led his troops to eliminate Stripfing, and reach the 2nd Round. Traiskirchen participated in Austrian Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.Traiskirchen's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Scheiblingkirchen. The home side are looking to build on that result. Stradiņš has beaten the opponent goalkeeper in three matches in a row. Outstanding!
In the game before, an away victory in the Regionalliga: Ost match versus Neusiedl with a 2-0 scoreline.There will be little rest for Traiskirchen after this match as they are travelling to Stripfing for a Regionalliga: Ost game in only three days.
Wattens form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Neusiedl in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. They also participated in Austrian Cup last season. This ended in the round of 16.Wattens are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Tipico Bundesliga, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
Home advantage was not enough for Wattens in their previous game as they lost hosting Wolfsberger AC, 1-3. Wattens goalie Oswald took pride in a magnificent day versus Wolfsberger AC, but even with registering seven saves the beating could not be helped.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ried at their stadium, the result 2-1.The schedule is very tough for Wattens now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Tipico Bundesliga game at Salzburg is waiting in only three days.
Wattens are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). Wattens struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 5 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  T. Prica 5 goals |   D. Stradiņš 4 goals |  P. Haas 2 goals |
Traiskirchen missing players
Wattens missing players
| Traiskirchen | Wattens | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 38 | 22 | Scored | S | 37 | 58 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Conceded | C | 21 | 46 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 44% | ||
| 4% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 60% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 20% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12.4 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.7 | 13.7 | ||
| 5 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 31% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 38% | ||
| 9 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 13.7 | ||
| 4.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.2 | ||
| 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 |
