The Bundesliga ends its 61-day hibernation with an absolute banger. Today at 8.30 p.m. the front runner Salzburg welcomes their immediate pursuer Sturm. After 17 rounds, the Mozartstadt team leads the table ahead of the Graz team. A feeling that Andreas Ulmer and Co know all too well. After all, Salzburg celebrated ten championship titles in a row, including the 2013/14 season. The competition only had to fight for second place.
Salzburg has collected 2.29 points per game since 2013/14. But what about the competition, how does it fare against the series champion? SK Sturm is clearly in the lead in this section. Graz got 35 points in 41 attempts. This corresponds to a point average of 0.85 points. If you ignore the Bundesliga newcomers BW Linz – the Upper Austrians only win one game – Sturm scores more often than any other club against Salzburg. The Styrians are the only Bundesliga regulars club to be pleased that they have scored at least one point against Krösus in every season since 2013/14.
These statistics also underline how weakly the former league dominants from Vienna, Rapid (0.58) and Austria (0.47), have performed in the last ten seasons. The WAC (0.65) scored far more points against Salzburg. If you only calculate the average value, Sturm is followed by LASK and Mattersburg (0.69 each). The Linzers have only been first class again since 2017, the Burgenlanders said goodbye in 2020 after a financial scandal.
Only Wiener Neustadt was worse than Hartberg
Of all the current Bundesliga clubs, Hartberg has the terrible record. The East Styrians only have one point in 14 attempts. Only one club came away completely empty. Wiener Neustadt suffered eight defeats in eight duels against Salzburg – goal difference 4:40. Today (8:30 p.m.) in Salzburg, Sturm has the chance to take the lead in the table with a win. It would be a first step towards breaking Salzburg’s title streak. In the ÖFB Cup, where Red Bull has triumphed eight times in the last ten years, this was achieved twice (2018, 2023). It’s time in the Bundesliga too.
2024-02-09 00:09:00
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