It's game one of two in the Europa League as Rapid Vienna host Zorya. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
There have been little to rest for the host team, as they played a Tipico Bundesliga game only four days back. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Rheindorf Altach.
These teams have little in common geographically as Zorya have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Rapid Vienna form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Europa League for Rapid Vienna, as the manager D. Kühbauer led his troops to eliminate Anorthosis, and reach the Play-offs. Vienna was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Europa League.OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Rapid Vienna's two home games in the Tipico Bundesliga so far this season, having collected 3 points here at Allianz Stadion.
Vienna are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Rheindorf Altach. The attacker Marco Grüll was "man of the match" for Vienna with a rating of 7.44/10. Grüll scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 4 times. Heartbreak for Rapid Vienna in their last match as Rheindorf Altach's A. Nuhiu scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Anorthosis (1-2).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 Vienna's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won one match, drawn one and lost zero.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Vienna as they have a new game in only three days, a Tipico Bundesliga match thankfully also at home. Ried are visiting.
Rapid Vienna has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Zorya form and stats
They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the group stage.As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Zorya have produced an overall stat of 1-0-0 so far. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Zorya are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Zorya delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Minai in their previous match; a Premier League game. As mentioned above, Zorya drew the match against Minai. Manager V. Skripnik brought on Allahyar Sayyadmanesh to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
A loss against Dynamo Kyiv was the result prior to that, in a Premier League home game.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 Zorya playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and one home win.
Zorya have another fixture away from home in just three sleeps, a Premier League fixture against Mariupol. A grim schedule for the visiting team!
It's early days yet, but Zorya has scored 5 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  T. Fountas 4 goals |   V. Kochergin 3 goals | R. Frimpong Owusu 2 goals |
Rapid Vienna missing players
Zorya missing players
| Rapid Vienna | Zorya | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 8 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 50 | 25 | Scored | S | 41 | 57 | ||
| 30 | 10 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 16% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6.1 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.4 | 3.2 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 12.7 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.7 | 11.3 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.4 | ||
| 38% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 34% | ||
| 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 12 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | Ried | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | -4 | 7 |
| 4 | Rheindorf Altach | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 5 | LASK Linz | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 5 |
| 6 | Austria Klagenfurt | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -3 | 5 |
| 7 | Admira | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Hartberg | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Rapid Vienna | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Wattens | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | Austria Wien | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 2 |
| 12 | Wolfsberger AC | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 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 | Desna | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | Vorskla | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | Dnipro-1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 8 | Kolos Kovalivka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | Zorya | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Minai | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 11 | Rukh Vynnyky | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 4 |
| 12 | Veres | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 2 |
| 13 | Lviv | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 2 |
| 14 | Mariupol | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 15 | Chornomorets | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 0 |
| 16 | Inhulets | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -7 | 0 |