📏 Form Guide

Rapid Vienna

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Rapid Vienna, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 Bundesliga success against Austria Vienna.

In that match, Rapid Vienna had 36% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Rapid Vienna, the goalscorers were Guido Burgstaller (32') and Ercan Kara (84'). At the other end, Austria Vienna got 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Dominik Fitz (80') scored for Austria Vienna.

It has been seldom in recent games that Rapid Vienna have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Rapid Vienna have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 13 goals along the way.

Pre-game facts show that Rapid Vienna:

• have not won against Sturm Graz in their last 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Sturm Graz

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Sturm Graz will go into this match following on from a 4-2 Bundesliga win with the defeat of Red Bull Salzburg in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Sturm Graz managed 41% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For Sturm Graz, goals were scored by William Bøving (20'), Gregory Wüthrich (48'), Emanuel Aiwu (59' Own goal) and Tochi Chukwuani (72'). On the other side, Red Bull Salzburg got 20 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Aleksa Terzić (18' Own goal) and Dorgeles Nene (45') scored for Red Bull Salzburg.

Throughout their 6 most recent matches, Jürgen Säumel's Sturm Graz have converted a total of 10 times, yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.67.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 19/04/2024 tells us that Rapid Vienna have won 1 of these games and Sturm Graz 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined total of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 4 of them for Die Grün-Weißen and 9 being from die Schwoazn. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was Bundesliga match day 2 on 04/04/2025 when the final score was Sturm Graz 2-0 Rapid Vienna.

That day, Sturm Graz managed 44% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by William Bøving (18') and Leon Grgic (90').

On the other side, Rapid Vienna had 10 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Stefan Ebner.

ℹ️ Team News: Rapid Vienna

Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao (Knee injury), Nenad Cvetkovic (Adductor injury), Tobias Børkeeiet (Cartilage damage), Laurenz Orgler (Knee injury), Jakob Schöller (Muscle injury), Amin-Elias Gröller (unknown injury) and Nikolaus Wurmbrand (Hamstring injury) aren’t available for Rapid Vienna manager Stefan Kulovits.

We are thinking that Die Grün-Weißen could go for a 4-2-3-1 formation featuring Niklas Hedl, Bendegúz Bolla, Dominic Vincze, Ange Ahoussou, Moritz Oswald, Lukas Grgic, Romeo Amane, Mamadou Sangare, Matthias Seidl, Isak Jansson and Dion Beljo.

🗞️ Team News: Sturm Graz

Sturm Graz manager Jürgen Säumel has not got a full squad to pick from. Alexandar Borkovic (Cruciate ligament tear), Niklas Geyrhofer (Knee surgery), Seedy Jatta (Ankle injury) and Fally Mayulu (Muscle injury) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, die Schwoazn might make use of a 4-3-3 system by sending out Kjell Scherpen, Emanuel Aiwu, Dimitri Lavalée, Gregory Wüthrich, Max Johnston, Otar Kiteishvili, Malick Yalcouye, Jon Gorenc-Stankovic, Leon Grgic, William Böving and Tomi Horvat.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Rapid Vienna will have to perform well to score against this Sturm Graz outfit who we think will likely score & stay on top.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 advantage for Sturm Graz after 90 minutes.

There should be little in it.

Peter Guest, 14:03 18/05/2025