It's advantage Sturm Graz so far with their 4th position in the Tipico Bundesliga table, welcoming Wattens who are placed 6th.
- Sturm Graz has the fewest conceded goals (5) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Wattens has the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Tipico Bundesliga
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Austrian Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Wacker Innsbruck, was also a home game here at Merkur Arena. The away team is better rested.
Sturm Graz form and stats
1-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Tipico Bundesliga numbers at home for Sturm Graz, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Tipico Bundesliga, so far this season.
Sturm Graz's last game was hosting Wacker Innsbruck and winning 1-0. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Salzburg.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Sturm Graz's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played four games, won two matches, drawn zero and lost two.
A decent goal production from Sturm Graz in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches. Sturm's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 3 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Wattens form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Tipico Bundesliga travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Wattens goalkeeper Ferdinand Oswald is eager to challenge this, with his 187 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
The supporters enjoyed Wattens's previous game versus Admira (placed 12th), a Tipico Bundesliga 3-0 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against St. Pölten with the score of 1-0.
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Wattens playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, one draw and one home win.
The visiting Wattens have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 5 goals from 4 games. Wattens have conceded 8 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sturm-Wattens H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Sturm Graz four wins, Wattens zero wins, zero draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  I. Ljubic 4 goals |  J. Jantscher 3 goals |   Z. Dedič 3 goals |
Sturm Graz missing players
Wattens missing players
| Sturm Graz | Wattens | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 8 | 12 |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.4 | 12 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 12.8 | 11.1 |
| 3.6 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| 44% | 42% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 23% | 28% |
- All of Sturm Graz's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sturm Graz has the fewest conceded goals (5) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Sturm Graz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Wattens has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Wattens has the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Tipico Bundesliga
- Wattens have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Wattens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 |