Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Ried - Liefering!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
The season is still full of potential for Ried as they can still win the whole Erste Liga. Liefering are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.
Ried form and stats
24 points is a decent return from 12 Erste Liga games here at josko ARENA for Ried. The data says 8 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses. Ried are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at josko ARENA, having lost their two previous games here.
A good away victory last time out for Ried, who won 1-0 against Vorwärts Steyr (placed 5th). Preceding that match was the home game against Blau-Wei Linz that was lost 1-3.
Goals decide football matches and Ried are scoring many of them at home; 28 on target from 12 league matches. Ried have conceded 15 in these home matches.
Liefering form and stats
Playing away, Liefering, who have the most scored goals (58) in Erste Liga, have won 3 games, drawn 6 and suffered 3 defeats in the Erste Liga this season. The fact that Liefering have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Liefering won their last game, 4-2 versus Austria Lustenau played at home. Before that, Liefering secured a home win against Kapfenberger SV with the score 3-2.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Liefering, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
The travelling fans enjoy Liefering's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 12 league matches away. Liefering have conceded 19 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Liefering - Ried 0-1 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Ried five wins, one draw and Liefering one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Betancor Sánchez 12 goals |  J. Chikwubuike Adamu 12 goals | M. Grüll 9 goals |
Ried missing players
Liefering missing players
| Ried | Liefering | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 12 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 26 |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 55 | 28 | 2 | Scored | S | 8 | 21 | 58 |
| 32 | 15 | 3 | Conceded | C | 5 | 19 | 43 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 77% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 92% |
| 69% | 83% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 42% | 69% |
| 58% | 75% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 42% | 62% |
| 31% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 33% | 42% |
| 65% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 73% |
| 35% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 12% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 19% |
| 7 | 6.6 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| 1.1 | 1 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 332 | 155 | 39 | Total Shots | T S | 28 | 128 | 350 |
| 158 | 82 | 19 | Shots on Target | S O | 17 | 61 | 168 |
| 35% | 34% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 34% | 35% |
- Liefering has the most scored goals (58)
- Liefering has the most scored goals in the second half (36)
- Ried has the most clean sheets (9)
- Ried has the most scored goals in the first half (25)
- Ried has the the best goal difference (+23)
- Ried have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ried have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Ried haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 53 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 27 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 21 | 55 |
| 2 | Ried | 26 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 55 | 32 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 23 | 54 |
| 3 | Liefering | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 58 | 43 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 37 | 24 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 43 |
| 4 | Wacker Innsbruck | 25 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 35 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 40 |
| 5 | Vorwärts Steyr | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 37 | 27 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 38 |
| 6 | Austria Wien II | 25 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 41 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 21 | 7 | 35 |
| 7 | Juniors OO | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 44 | 47 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 27 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 20 | -3 | 35 |
| 8 | Amstetten | 25 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 42 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 34 |
| 9 | Lafnitz | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 36 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 19 | -1 | 33 |
| 10 | SV Horn II | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 52 | 53 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 24 | -1 | 32 |
| 11 | Blau-Wei Linz | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 43 | 53 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 25 | -10 | 30 |
| 12 | Austria Lustenau | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 46 | 53 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 29 | -7 | 28 |
| 13 | Floridsdorfer AC | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 22 | -9 | 28 |
| 14 | Grazer AK | 25 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 33 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 23 | -6 | 27 |
| 15 | Dornbirn | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 32 | 51 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 21 | -19 | 27 |
| 16 | Kapfenberger SV | 25 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 32 | 53 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 36 | -21 | 22 |