St. Pölten will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 25 points behind Salzburg.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
St. Pölten form and stats
The story so far for St. Pölten at their home stadium (NV ARENA) is 5 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. Three consecutive losses here at NV ARENA is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.St. Pölten drew their last game, 0-0 away at LASK Linz. Ahead of that match, St. Pölten lost 1-3 at home to Wolfsberger AC.
No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where St. Pölten had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 1. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Pölten lost 1 similar game by at least two goals.
St. Pölten are traveling soon after this match as the Tipico Bundesliga match at Austria Wien awaits in three days.
The St. Pölten fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 16 in 11 matches. On the other hand, St. Pölten have conceded 14 goals.
Salzburg form and stats
The away team, who have the most points (26) away in Tipico Bundesliga, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 8 wins, 2 draws and only 1 loss. Salzburg have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of six victories in a row regardless of arena. Having won their last three away games Salzburg has no reason to fear anyone.Salzburg are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Tipico Bundesliga against Sturm Graz. Ahead of that match was the victory versus LASK Linz at their stadium, the result 2-0.
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Salzburg given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 45 matches with 28 wins as expected, 9 draws and 8 surprise home wins. The favourites won 17 of these games by at least two goals.
A new game in only three days for Salzburg, the Tipico Bundesliga home match versus Wolfsberger AC. Busy days.
With an average of more than two away goals per game, Salzburg are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Salzburg have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Salzburg - St. Pölten 5-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): St. Pölten won 0 games, 0 matches ended with a draw and Salzburg has 10 wins.Top Goalscorers
  M. Dabour 17 goals / 2 assists |  S. Prevljak 9 goals |   R. Gartler 7 goals / 1 assists |
St. Pölten missing players
Salzburg missing players
| St. Pölten | Salzburg | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | Played | 12 | 25 |
| 28 | 17 | Scored | 29 | 61 |
| 32 | 17 | Conceded | 12 | 20 |
| 80% | 83% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 96% |
| 68% | 75% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 92% |
| 40% | 58% | Over 2.5 | 58% | 60% |
| 28% | 42% | Over 3.5 | 50% | 44% |
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | 25% | 20% |
| 36% | 42% | Both teams to score | 50% | 56% |
| 44% | 42% | Clean Sheet | 42% | 40% |
| 40% | 33% | Failed To Score | 8% | 8% |
| 3.6 | 3.7 | Corners For (avg) | 7.3 | 7.4 |
| 6.4 | 4.6 | Corners Against (avg) | 3.6 | 3.1 |
| 2.3 | 1.9 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 2 | 2 |
- Salzburg hasn't played a single 0-0 game away.
- St. Pölten is involved in more matches over 2.5 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 | D | P |
| 1 | Salzburg | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 51 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 33 | 55 |
| 2 | LASK Linz | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 40 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 21 | 46 |
| 3 | Sturm Graz | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 31 |
| 4 | Wolfsberger AC | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 32 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 30 |
| 5 | Austria Wien | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 29 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 30 |
| 6 | St. Pölten | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -3 | 30 |
| 7 | Mattersburg | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 16 | -8 | 29 |
| 8 | Rapid Wien | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 21 | -3 | 27 |
| 9 | Hartberg | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 45 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 31 | -10 | 26 |
| 10 | Admira | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 42 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 22 | -16 | 21 |
| 11 | Rheindorf Altach | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 30 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 13 | -2 | 18 |
| 12 | Wacker Innsbruck | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 21 | -17 | 17 |
