St. Pölten will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Salzburg.
- St. Pölten has the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg has the most scored goals (26) in Tipico Bundesliga
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Champions League. That game, against Bayern München, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Salzburg.
St. Pölten form and stats
When playing at home in the Tipico Bundesliga, St. Pölten have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games.
Pölten manager R. Ibertsberger and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Austria Wien (placed 8th) in the Tipico Bundesliga. Before that, Pölten had a home game versus Ried which ended with a victory 4-0.
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 Pölten had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew one and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Pölten lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Pölten has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Pölten are not conceding a lot of goals here at NV ARENA in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.
Salzburg form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (26) in Tipico Bundesliga, are W3-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Tipico Bundesliga.
Two away games in a row for Salzburg, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus Bayern München in the Champions League. A 1-3 loss hosting Sturm Graz before that.
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 15 matches with 13 wins as expected, two draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won eleven of these games by at least two goals.
The schedule is very tough for Salzburg now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Champions League game at Lokomotiv Moskva is waiting in only three days.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Salzburg are regular goalscorers on their travels. Salzburg are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Pölten zero wins, two draws and Salzburg eight victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Koita 7 goals |  P. Daka 6 goals |   D. Hugy 5 goals |
St. Pölten missing players
Salzburg missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 26 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 88% | 75% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 75% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 75% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 75% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.8 | 10 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 18 | 17.4 |
| 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 7 | 7.6 |
| 42% | 29% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 32% | 43% |
- All of Salzburg's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Salzburg has the most points (10) away in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg has the most scored goals (26) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg has the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg has the the best goal difference (+18) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg has the the best goal difference (+6) away in Tipico Bundesliga
- Salzburg have not yet lost a game away.
- Salzburg have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Salzburg have scored in all their matches so far.
- Salzburg haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pölten has the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Tipico Bundesliga
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Salzburg | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 19 |
| 2 | LASK Linz | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 |
| 3 | Rapid Wien | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | Sturm Graz | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | St. Pölten | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Wattens | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 11 |
| 7 | Wolfsberger AC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 8 | Austria Wien | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 9 |
| 9 | Ried | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 9 |
| 10 | Hartberg | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | -9 | 7 |
| 11 | Rheindorf Altach | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | -11 | 5 |
| 12 | Admira | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -17 | 4 |