Liefering look to Red Bull Arena supporters for inspiration before Austria Lustenau match

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Competition: Austria Erste Liga
Competition: Fri 25.February
Match begins: 19:25 (UTC)
Venue: Red Bull Arena (4330 seats)

A crucial fixture in Erste Liga as both teams are challenging for the top league positions. With Liefering in 2nd position and Austria Lustenau placed 1st, this has all the looks of a thriling battle. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Liefering have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Austria Lustenau have the most scored goals (40) in Erste Liga

Both contenders have had enough days rest since their previous competitive action. Let's hope for an animated fixture!

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Liefering form and stats

Liefering are steadily winning Erste Liga games and points here at Red Bull Arena. 5 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 9 games.

In their previous game, the manager Aufhauser led his Liefering to a defeat away at St. Pölten. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Red Bull Arena.

Ahead of that match, Liefering won a home game hosting Kapfenberger SV (3-2).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Liefering have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found seven games) they have won three times, drawn three and lost one.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (19 in 9 games), Liefering's attacking play is working.

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Austria Lustenau form and stats

Austria Lustenau have an excellent away record in the Erste Liga so far with 5-2-1 from 8 games.

Austria Lustenau had fun at their own home (Red Bull Arena) last time out, beating Lafnitz 2-1. Saračević (2) scored.

A 0-0 draw at Grazer AK's stadium before that.

Lustenau are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, zero draws and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.

16 goals so far away for Austria Lustenau, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 8. All from 8 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

The two sides faced each other previously this season: Austria Lustenau - Liefering 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Liefering four wins, two draws and Austria Lustenau four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Liefering missing players

Austria Lustenau missing players

Liefering Austria Lustenau
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 1 8 17
10 5 0 Won W 0 5 13
5 4 3 Drew D 0 2 2
2 0 0 Lost L 1 1 2
35 19 1 Scored S 1 16 40
18 9 1 Conceded C 3 8 14
88% 78% 33% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
88% 78% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 88%
53% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 71%
35% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 38% 35%
24% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 24%
59% 67% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 65%
35% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 29%
18% 22% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 12%
 
6.2 5 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5.2 5.4
4.1 5.6 7.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.5 5.4
1.8 1.3 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.9 2
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 3
 
13.8 12.6 8 Shots (avg) S ( 6 11.2 11.6
5.6 5.3 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.9 5.6
37% 40% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 42%
 
9.1 9.4 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13 10.2 10.5
3.1 2.9 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.6 3.8
Key stats in Erste Liga this season:
  • Austria Lustenau have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Austria Lustenau have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Erste Liga
  • Austria Lustenau have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Erste Liga
  • Austria Lustenau have the most points from losing position (13) in Erste Liga
  • Austria Lustenau have the most scored goals (40) in Erste Liga
  • Austria Lustenau have the the best goal difference (+26) in Erste Liga
  • Austria Lustenau have the the best goal difference (+8) away in Erste Liga
  • Liefering have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Liefering have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Liefering have won significantly less corners at 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 Lustenau 17 13 2 2 40 14 9 8 0 1 24 6 8 5 2 1 16 8 26 41
2 Liefering 17 10 5 2 35 18 9 5 4 0 19 9 8 5 1 2 16 9 17 35
3 Floridsdorfer AC 17 10 4 3 27 11 9 5 2 2 17 8 8 5 2 1 10 3 16 34
4 Amstetten 17 10 3 4 39 16 8 6 2 0 20 4 9 4 1 4 19 12 23 33
5 Blau-Weiß Linz 17 8 6 3 25 17 9 5 3 1 14 9 8 3 3 2 11 8 8 30
6 Lafnitz 17 8 4 5 32 26 9 5 1 3 20 17 8 3 3 2 12 9 6 28
7 Grazer AK 17 8 3 6 27 23 8 4 2 2 14 9 9 4 1 4 13 14 4 27
8 St. Pölten 17 7 3 7 26 21 9 4 2 3 18 11 8 3 1 4 8 10 5 24
9 Wacker Innsbruck 17 7 3 7 26 21 8 3 2 3 12 10 9 4 1 4 14 11 5 24
10 Kapfenberger SV 17 6 2 9 22 33 8 3 1 4 10 12 9 3 1 5 12 21 -11 20
11 Rapid Wien II 17 5 4 8 23 33 8 2 2 4 6 12 9 3 2 4 17 21 -10 19
12 SV Horn II 17 4 4 9 20 33 9 2 2 5 9 15 8 2 2 4 11 18 -13 16
13 Austria Wien II 17 3 4 10 17 30 9 1 2 6 6 16 8 2 2 4 11 14 -13 13
14 Dornbirn 17 3 3 11 20 41 8 2 2 4 9 16 9 1 1 7 11 25 -21 12
15 Vorwarts Steyr 17 2 5 10 17 35 8 1 2 5 10 18 9 1 3 5 7 17 -18 11
16 Juniors OO 17 1 7 9 19 43 8 1 2 5 13 22 9 0 5 4 6 21 -24 10

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.