Juniors OÖ vs Lafnitz match preview: Even contest expected at TGW Arena

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Competition: Austria Erste Liga
Competition: Fri 21.February
Match begins: 18:10 (UTC)
Venue: TGW Arena (6009 seats)

Juniors OÖ will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind Lafnitz.

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Juniors OÖ form and stats

Overall Erste Liga stats at home this season for Juniors OÖ are 3-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).

An away draw last time out for Juniors OÖ, facing Floridsdorfer AC in a game that ended 0-0. Before that, Juniors OÖ played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Floridsdorfer AC.

This is expected to be a close game, with Juniors OÖ perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Juniors OÖ as a small favourite), we find three games. Juniors OÖ has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost three.

Juniors OÖ can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 16 times. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Juniors OÖ having conceded 19 goals here at TGW Arena so far.

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Lafnitz form and stats

Lafnitz's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Lafnitz collect 17 points from their 7 away matches in the Erste Liga. 5 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats). It could be a hat trick of victories away for Lafnitz, as they have won on their previous two travels.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Erste Liga home defeat versus Austria Lustenau with 0-2 on the scoreboard. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Austria Lustenau.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Lafnitz in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Lafnitz, one draw and three defeats.

Lafnitz have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 16 goals from 7 away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Lafnitz - Juniors OÖ 0-0, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Juniors OÖ five wins, two draws and Lafnitz three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Juniors OÖ missing players

Lafnitz missing players

Juniors OÖ Lafnitz
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 7 3 Played P 2 7 16
6 3 2 Won W 1 5 6
4 1 0 Drew D 1 2 6
6 3 1 Lost L 0 0 4
30 16 11 Scored S 4 16 23
30 19 8 Conceded C 1 6 18
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
81% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 81%
75% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 38%
56% 71% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 19%
19% 43% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 19%
62% 57% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 71% 56%
25% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 29% 25%
25% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
3.9 3.7 2.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.4 4.8
6.1 6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 4.7 4.6
1.2 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.1
4 3 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
134 64 30 Total Shots T S 30 78 169
67 31 16 Shots on Target S O 14 38 75
45% 52% 69% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 42% 31%
Key stats in Erste Liga this season:
  • Juniors OÖ haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Lafnitz has the fewest conceded goals (6) away
  • Lafnitz has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4)
  • Lafnitz has the most matches under the total-line (10)
  • Lafnitz have not yet lost a game away.
  • Lafnitz have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Lafnitz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Lafnitz have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Lafnitz have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Lafnitz haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Ried 16 12 2 2 36 16 7 5 0 2 17 8 9 7 2 0 19 8 20 38
2 Austria Klagenfurt 16 10 5 1 35 20 7 3 4 0 16 11 9 7 1 1 19 9 15 35
3 Vorwarts Steyr 16 7 4 5 25 18 8 5 2 1 13 6 8 2 2 4 12 12 7 25
4 Lafnitz 16 6 6 4 23 18 9 1 4 4 7 12 7 5 2 0 16 6 5 24
5 Austria Lustenau 16 7 2 7 32 33 8 3 1 4 12 14 8 4 1 3 20 19 -1 23
6 Wacker Innsbruck 16 7 2 7 21 25 9 4 1 4 13 15 7 3 1 3 8 10 -4 23
7 Juniors OÖ 16 6 4 6 30 30 7 3 1 3 16 19 9 3 3 3 14 11 0 22
8 Dornbirn 16 5 6 5 26 26 8 2 4 2 16 16 8 3 2 3 10 10 0 21
9 Amstetten 16 5 6 5 27 29 9 3 3 3 16 17 7 2 3 2 11 12 -2 21
10 Liefering 16 5 5 6 30 31 8 3 1 4 15 17 8 2 4 2 15 14 -1 20
11 Grazer AK 16 4 6 6 21 25 7 2 3 2 10 9 9 2 3 4 11 16 -4 18
12 Blau-Weiß Linz 16 5 3 8 30 37 7 2 1 4 13 19 9 3 2 4 17 18 -7 18
13 Austria Wien II 16 5 2 9 30 31 9 3 1 5 16 16 7 2 1 4 14 15 -1 17
14 Floridsdorfer AC 16 4 5 7 17 24 9 2 3 4 6 10 7 2 2 3 11 14 -7 17
15 SV Horn II 16 4 4 8 30 34 8 1 2 5 14 20 8 3 2 3 16 14 -4 16
16 Kapfenberger SV 16 4 2 10 19 35 8 3 1 4 11 12 8 1 1 6 8 23 -16 14

Read more about Erste Liga

The Austrian Football Second League (2. Liga, formerly known as Erste Liga) is the second highest level of football in Austria. The league expanded from ten to 16 teams before the 2018/19 season. Each team play 30 fixtures to decide a final league table, promotion and relegation.