Europa League betting and spectator preview: Dinamo Zagreb and Rapid Vienna meet at Stadion Maksimir to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Tipico Bundesliga.
Dinamo Zagreb form and stats
Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the quarter-finals against Villarreal.Dinamo Zagreb are steadily winning 1. HNL games and points here at Stadion Maksimir. 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games. This match is a Europa League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses in this competition. Dinamo haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Slaven Koprivnica, 111 days ago.
A good away victory last time out for Dinamo, who won 2-0 against Gorica. Goalkeeper Dominik Livaković got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.04 out of ten. Livaković stopped the opponent with four saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Bijelo Brdo.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 Dinamo's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won one match, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager D. Krznar will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Lokomotiva Zagreb in only three days.
Dinamo can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 16 times. Dinamo are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Maksimir in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.
Rapid Vienna form and stats
Vienna's mission in Europa League last season failed in the group stage.There's been little loot from Rapid Vienna's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the Tipico Bundesliga. Rapid Vienna only have 0 wins to counter their 2 defeats and 4 draws. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 4W-0D-3L. This is both home and away. Vienna has drawn their two previous away games.
Vienna won their last game, 3-2 versus LASK Linz played at home. Vienna goalie Paul Gartler was high and low in the LASK Linz game, contributing seven saves towards the victory. Attacker Marco Grüll got a player rating of 8.82 in the game. "Man of the match" Grüll scored one goal, served one assist and hit four key passes.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Amstetten at their stadium, the result 3-0.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 Rapid Vienna playing away, we found three games. Results were two away wins, zero draws and one home win.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Vienna manager D. Kühbauer as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Wolfsberger AC.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Vienna as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. Vienna have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This was the result when the teams played each other previously this campaign; Rapid Vienna - Dinamo 2-1.Top Goalscorers
  T. Fountas 6 goals |  E. Kara 6 goals | M. Grüll 5 goals |
Dinamo Zagreb missing players
Rapid Vienna missing players
| Dinamo Zagreb | Rapid Vienna | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 55 | 19 | Scored | S | 14 | 45 | ||
| 24 | 9 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 48% | 18% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 64% | ||
| 36% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 52% | ||
| 52% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
| 6.6 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.5 | ||
| 1.4 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 14.1 | 16.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.6 | 13.9 | ||
| 5.9 | 6.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 5.3 | ||
| 34% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 33% | ||
| 9 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 11.9 | ||
| 3.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | West Ham United | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 2 | Dinamo Zagreb | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Rapid Vienna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 4 | Genk | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 3 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dinamo Zagreb | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 21 | 27 |
| 2 | Rijeka | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Osijek | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Hajduk Split | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | Gorica | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -3 | 18 |
| 7 | Sibenik | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 8 | Istra 1961 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 9 | Slaven Koprivnica | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -11 | 10 |
| 10 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 22 | -22 | 7 |
| 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 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 35 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| 3 | Wolfsberger AC | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| 4 | Hartberg | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 17 |
| 5 | Austria Wien | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | Rapid Vienna | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 7 | Austria Klagenfurt | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -2 | 15 |
| 8 | Admira | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | Ried | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 29 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 21 | -12 | 14 |
| 10 | Wattens | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 13 |
| 11 | Rheindorf Altach | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -9 | 13 |
| 12 | LASK Linz | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 10 |