Get ready for the return leg of the Europa League Play-offs between Zorya and Rapid Vienna. This should be an interesting match and this preview contains everything you need to know. Read on!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Zorya and Rapid Vienna.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Rapid Vienna, who are travelling more than 1800 kilometers to play this game.
Zorya form and stats
Zorya participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the group stage.Zorya have played three Premier League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
It's back home for Zorya, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Mariupol away with the result 4-3. Egor Nazaryna, Shahab Zahedi (2) and Oleksandr Gladkiy found the net in that victory. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Heartbreak before that as Zorya lost 0-3 at Rapid Vienna's place.This is expected to be a close game, with Zorya perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Zorya as a small favourite), we find two games. Zorya has won two of these, drawn zero and lost zero.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Vorskla are coming to town in three days.
Zorya have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. Zorya's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Rapid Vienna form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Anorthosis in order to reach play-offs of Europa League. Vienna was sent out of Europa League in the group stage last season.Still no away game victory in the Tipico Bundesliga for Rapid Vienna with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 2W-0D-1L. This is both home and away.
Rapid Vienna won their last game, 3-0 versus Ried played at home. Attacker Ercan Kara got a player rating of 8.5 in the game. "Man of the match" Kara scored one goal and hit one key pass.
That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Zorya in the Europa League.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Vienna in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Rapid Vienna, one draw and one defeat.
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 Austria Wien.
Rapid Vienna have the goal stats of 2-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Here's the end result when the contenders met previously this season; Rapid Vienna - Zorya 3-0.Top Goalscorers
  T. Fountas 4 goals |   V. Kochergin 3 goals | S. Zahedi 2 goals |
Zorya missing players
Rapid Vienna missing players
| Zorya | Rapid Vienna | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 58 | 16 | Scored | S | 16 | 47 | ||
| 29 | 11 | Conceded | C | 18 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 52% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 68% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 70% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 24% | ||
| 6.2 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.4 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.9 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 11.9 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 12.5 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.9 | ||
| 32% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 36% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 12 |
| 3 | Desna | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Vorskla | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 5 | Dnipro-1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Zorya | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -3 | 6 |
| 9 | Kolos Kovalivka | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 | Veres | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 5 |
| 11 | Minai | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 4 |
| 12 | Rukh Vynnyky | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 4 |
| 13 | Chornomorets | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -9 | 3 |
| 14 | Lviv | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 2 |
| 15 | Mariupol | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 1 |
| 16 | Inhulets | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -7 | 1 |
| 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 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 15 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | Rapid Vienna | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Rheindorf Altach | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 5 | Ried | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | -7 | 7 |
| 6 | LASK Linz | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Hartberg | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | Wattens | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Wolfsberger AC | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 10 | Austria Klagenfurt | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 5 |
| 11 | Admira | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 4 |
| 12 | Austria Wien | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 3 |