It's time for episode two of the Fiorentina - Rapid Vienna Play-offs battle

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Competition: Europe Europa Conference League
Competition: Thu 31.Aug
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Artemio Franchi (47300 seats)

Get ready for the return leg of the Europa Conference League Play-offs between Fiorentina and Rapid Vienna. This should be an interesting match and this preview contains everything you need to know. Read on!

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Fiorentina form and stats

Last season their Europa Conference League adventure ended in the semi-finals against Basel.

When playing at home in the Serie A, Fiorentina have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.

The spoils were shared in Fiorentina's previous game, also at home. Visiting Lecce travelled back with a draw after a 2-2 scoreline. Opportunity lost for Fiorentina in the Lecce match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Midfielder Duncan was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.42 (out of ten) in that game. Duncan scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit four key passes.

Before that game, a loss in the away fixture against Rapid Vienna in the Europa Conference League.

The manager Italiano will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Inter in only three days.

Early season league goal statistics from Fiorentina's 1 home game: {2 goals}, 2 conceded.

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Rapid Vienna form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Debrecen in order to reach play-offs of Europa Conference League. Rapid Vienna's mission in Europa Conference League last season failed in the play-offs against Vaduz.

Rapid Vienna are still undefeated on their travels in the Tipico Bundesliga. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other. When we have look at the Europa Conference League statistics, we find 2W-1D-0L. This is both home and away.

Vienna delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Wattens in their previous match. Midfield player Seidl was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.64/10. Seidl scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Before that match, the win at home against Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League (1-0).

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Tipico Bundesliga trip to Salzburg.

It's early days yet, but Rapid Vienna has scored 6 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Rapid Vienna - Fiorentina 1-0 was the result in these sides' previous H2H game, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Rapid ViennaG. Burgstaller
G. Burgstaller
3 goals
FiorentinaN. González
N. González
2 goals
Rapid ViennaN. Kühn
N. Kühn
2 goals

Fiorentina missing players

Rapid Vienna missing players

Fiorentina Rapid Vienna
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 14   Played P   11 25
10 6   Won W   4 9
6 4   Drew D   1 7
9 4   Lost L   6 9
50 30   Scored S   28 49
35 16   Conceded C   19 35
96% 93%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 96%
88% 93%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   100% 88%
68% 71%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   91% 64%
44% 29%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   64% 44%
28% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   45% 28%
64% 71%   BTTS BTTS   64% 64%
20% 29%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 24%
20% 7%   Failed to Score F T   9% 16%
 
5.6 5.2   Corners for (avg) C F   4.3 5.2
2.5 2.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.1 4
2.1 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2.3
1 1   Red cards R C   0 2
 
14.3 13.5   Shots (avg) S (   11.8 12.8
5.1 4.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.2 5.4
39% 47%   Goal Efficiency G E   49% 37%
 
7.2 6.1   Shots against (avg) S A   10.8 11.1
3 2.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.5 4.2

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Milan 2 2 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 5 6
2 Napoli 2 2 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 4 6
3 Inter 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 6
4 Hellas Verona 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
5 Fiorentina 2 1 1 0 6 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 4
6 Juventus 2 1 1 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 4
7 Lecce 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 4
8 Atalanta 2 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 3
9 Monza 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
10 Frosinone 2 1 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 3
11 Genoa 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 -2 3
12 Salernitana 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
13 Roma 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 1
14 Bologna 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -2 1
15 Cagliari 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 -2 1
16 Torino 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 1
17 Udinese 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 -3 1
18 Lazio 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
19 Empoli 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0
20 Sassuolo 2 0 0 2 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -4 0
  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 5 5 0 0 14 2 2 2 0 0 5 0 3 3 0 0 9 2 12 15
2 Sturm Graz 5 4 1 0 10 1 3 2 1 0 6 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 9 13
3 Austria Klagenfurt 5 2 3 0 9 4 2 0 2 0 3 3 3 2 1 0 6 1 5 9
4 Rapid Vienna 5 2 2 1 11 3 3 1 1 1 5 2 2 1 1 0 6 1 8 8
5 LASK Linz 5 2 2 1 6 4 3 2 1 0 5 1 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 8
6 Rheindorf Altach 5 2 1 2 5 7 2 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 4 5 -2 7
7 Wolfsberger AC 5 1 3 1 6 6 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 6
8 Hartberg 5 1 2 2 7 13 3 0 1 2 3 10 2 1 1 0 4 3 -6 5
9 Austria Wien 5 1 1 3 2 7 2 0 1 1 0 3 3 1 0 2 2 4 -5 4
10 Wattens 5 0 2 3 3 9 2 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 2 1 5 -6 2
11 Austria Lustenau 5 0 2 3 3 9 3 0 0 3 0 6 2 0 2 0 3 3 -6 2
12 Blau-Wei Linz 5 0 1 4 5 16 2 0 1 1 3 8 3 0 0 3 2 8 -11 1

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