The visiting Austria Wien II side should be favourites in this visit to Dornbirn, as the away team holds a 11 point advantage from their 28 league games this season.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
It should be mentioned that Austria Wien II play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Austria Wien II on grass are 12 victories, 8 draws and 13 defeats from 33 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 49-57. You can compare this with overall results below.
Relegation threatens Dornbirn who should definitely be looking for some points here. For Austria most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.
Dornbirn form and stats
Dornbirn's struggle is real here at Stadion Birkenwiese with only 14 points collected from 14 Erste Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-5-6.
Dornbirn's previous game was a Erste Liga match also played at home, ending 5-2 versus SV Horn II (placed 13th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that match, a win away at Juniors OO.
The game against SV Horn II had lots of late drama as Dornbirn came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured the victory through Lukas Fridrikas's goal in the 86th minute. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
The Dornbirn fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 22 goals in 14 league matches. Dornbirn are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (32 from 14 played).
Austria Wien II form and stats
The visitors are W5-D4-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Erste Liga.
Austria won their last game, 8-2 versus Juniors OO played at home. Prior to that result Austria Wien II won their away game at Wacker Innsbruck. The scoreline was 1-0.
As you can tell from the results above, Austria was very dominant against Juniors OO, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 8-2 (!) with Anour El Moukhantir (2), Muharem Huskovic (3), Can Keles (2) and Niels Hahn providing the goals. Muharem Huskovic certainly enjoyed Austria's last game versus Juniors OO, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 8-2 victory.
Austria Wien II has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 24 goals from 13 games. Austria Wien II's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 21 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Austria Wien II - Dornbirn 0-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last three meetings): Dornbirn won two games, one match ended with a draw and Austria Wien II has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / twoTop Goalscorers
  L. Fridrikas 12 goals | E. Shabani 6 goals | D. Mujic 6 goals |
Dornbirn missing players
Austria Wien II missing players
| Dornbirn | Austria Wien II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 28 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 39 | 22 | 2 | Scored | S | 9 | 24 | 58 |
| 54 | 32 | 11 | Conceded | C | 9 | 21 | 43 |
| 96% | 93% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 85% | 89% |
| 86% | 93% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 77% | 79% |
| 61% | 79% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 69% | 68% |
| 50% | 71% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 54% | 50% |
| 21% | 21% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 38% | 43% |
| 57% | 57% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 77% | 64% |
| 18% | 7% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 23% | 29% |
| 29% | 43% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 15% | 18% |
| 4 | 4.5 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 6 | 5.2 |
| 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.8 | 6.5 | 5.8 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 229 | 129 | 30 | Total Shots | T S | 35 | 147 | 291 |
| 106 | 60 | 10 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 74 | 149 |
| 37% | 37% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 32% | 39% |
- Austria Wien II has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Austria Wien II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Dornbirn has the the worst goal difference (-10) at home
- Dornbirn have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Austria Klagenfurt | 28 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 33 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 25 | 61 |
| 2 | Ried | 28 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 61 | 37 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 24 | 58 |
| 3 | Liefering | 28 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 65 | 47 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 42 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 18 | 47 |
| 4 | Austria Wien II | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 58 | 43 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 34 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 44 |
| 5 | Wacker Innsbruck | 28 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 42 | 42 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 0 | 43 |
| 6 | Vorwarts Steyr | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 32 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 38 |
| 7 | Lafnitz | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 39 | 39 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 20 | 0 | 37 |
| 8 | Amstetten | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 44 | 44 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 36 |
| 9 | Juniors OO | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 47 | 57 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 29 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 28 | -10 | 35 |
| 10 | Austria Lustenau | 28 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 55 | 54 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 31 | 29 | 1 | 34 |
| 11 | Blau-Wei Linz | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 45 | 54 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 26 | -9 | 33 |
| 12 | Dornbirn | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 54 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -15 | 33 |
| 13 | SV Horn II | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 55 | 61 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 29 | -6 | 32 |
| 14 | Floridsdorfer AC | 28 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 30 | 42 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 25 | -12 | 29 |
| 15 | Grazer AK | 27 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 45 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 29 | -10 | 27 |
| 16 | Kapfenberger SV | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 34 | 62 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 36 | -28 | 22 |