Austria Vienna vs Rapid Vienna Live Stream, Predictions

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Austria Vienna

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Austria Vienna will be wanting a better result here following a 3-1 Bundesliga loss in their previous game against Sturm Graz.

In that match, Austria Vienna managed 50% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. The only player to score for Austria Vienna was Haris Tabaković (36'). At the other end, Sturm Graz had 17 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Emanuel Emegha (34', 65') and Manprit Sarkaria (71') scored for Sturm Graz.

It has been seldom in recent times where Austria Vienna haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Austria Vienna have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 7 goals on the way. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

Their previous form shows that Austria Vienna:

• have not lost a league tie with Rapid Vienna in their last 8 games. A decent run, indeed.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Rapid Vienna

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Rapid Vienna go into this clash after a 2-0 Bundesliga win against WSG Swarovski Tirol in their previous outing.

In that game, Rapid Vienna managed 58% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Rapid Vienna, goals were scored by Oliver Strunz (74') and Guido Burgstaller (86'). On the other side, WSG Swarovski Tirol got 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

Throughout their six most recent matches, Zoran Barišić's Rapid Vienna have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 12 times thus giving them the goals scored per game average of 2.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Rapid Vienna:

• have not registered a win against Austria Vienna when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated by Austria Vienna in away games against them for the last 4 league matches. An impressive run.

↔️ Head to head

There have been frequent draws between the two sides. In their head to head clashes going back to 07/03/2021, the records show 5 of these. That’s a very high 83% of games finishing all-square.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them for Die Veilchen and 5 belonging to Die Grün-Weißen. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was Bundesliga match day 11 on 09/10/2022 when it ended Rapid Vienna 1-2 Austria Vienna.

On that occasion, Rapid Vienna managed 56% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Ante Bajic (91').

On the other side, Austria Vienna had 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Muharem Husković (4') and Dominik Fitz (16') scored.

The match was refereed by Manuel Schüttengruber.

📰 Team News: Austria Vienna

Muharem Huskovic (Traffic Accident), James Holland (Muscle Injury), Florian Wustinger (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Marko Raguz (Pubitis) and Ziad El Sheiwi (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) aren’t available for Austria Vienna gaffer Michael Wimmer. Reinhold Ranftl cannot play in this game through suspension.

It looks as if Die Veilchen will probably opt for a 3-4-2-1 formation for this one featuring Christian Fruechtl, Johannes Handl, Marvin Martins, Lukas Muehl, Matthias Braunoeder, Doron Leidner, Dominik Fitz, Aleksandar Jukic, Manfred Fischer, Matteo Meisl and Haris Tabakovic.

🗞️ Team News: Rapid Vienna

Rapid Vienna boss Zoran Barišić has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Martin Koscelnik (Ligament Injury), Nicolas Kühn (Muscular problems), Maximilian Hofmann (Hip Injury), Ferdy Druijf (Hamstring Injury) and Paul Gartler (Meniscal Injury) will miss out on this game. Roman Kerschbaum will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

We’re of the thinking that Die Grün-Weißen seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Niklas Hedl, Denso Kasius, Leopold Querfeld, Michael Sollbauer, Jonas Auer, Aleksa Pejic, Dejan Petrovic, Ante Bajic, Patrick Greil, Marco Gruell and Guido Burgstaller.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Rapid Vienna and Austria Vienna may well find themselves both scoring in what promises to be a very even battle here.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. Our tip is therefore for a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score at the end of this game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 02:40 15/03/2023