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Three teams still have a chance at the championship play-off but only two teams make it.
The ticker from the game Austria Vienna vs Rapid Vienna
FK Austria Wien – SK Rapid Wien Sunday 5 p.m.;
FK Austria Vienna – SK Rapid Vienna Sunday, March 19, 2023, 5 p.m., Generali Arena, referee: Julian Weinberger
FK Austria Wien has been unbeaten in eight games against SK Rapid Wien in the Bundesliga (W1 D7) – like most recently from 2011 to 2013 (even 10 games back then). In the first leg, Vienna Austria won 2-1, it was the first victory in the Vienna derby for one of the two teams after seven draws in a row.
On December 16, 2018, FK Austria Wien won the home game against SK Rapid Wien 6-1. This was the only home win in the last 19 Bundesliga encounters between the two clubs.
SK Rapid Wien is unbeaten in four away games against FK Austria Wien in the Bundesliga (W1 D3) and lost only one of the last 11 BL derbies at Wiener Austria (W6 D4).
FK Austria Wien scored six goals after winning the ball from high (40 meters from the opponent’s goal) – best value. Conversely, Wiener Austria has already conceded six goals after deep ball losses – only SCR Altach (9) more. SK Rapid Wien have yet to concede a goal in the Bundesliga this season after losing the ball deep.
SK Rapid Wien won the last two duels under Zoran Barisic against FK Austria Wien in the Bundesliga – making him the last Rapid coach to win two derbies in a row. In addition, Barisic is the only Rapid coach in this millennium to have won three Viennese derbies in a row (2013/14).
The ticker from the game Ried vs Wolfsberg
SV Ried – Wolfsberger AC Sunday 5 p.m.;
SV Ried – RZ WAC Sunday, March 19, 2023, 5 p.m., josko ARENA, referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca
SV Ried won the first leg against RZ WAC 2:1. Before that, WAC went nine games in a row unbeaten against Ried in the Bundesliga – that is a BL record for the Carinthians against a team.
RZ WAC has been unbeaten in four away games against SV Ried in the Bundesliga (W2 D2) and is therefore as often in these four games as in the first eight away games combined.
SV Ried scored their first win since October 15, 2022 (1-0 against SK Rapid Wien) with a 2-1 win over SCR Altach. In between there were eight duels without a win in the Bundesliga. Thanks to the win, the Innviertler are not at the bottom of the table for the first time since the 16th round.
RZ WAC scored 5.9 more goals than expected this season in the Bundesliga (35 goals at xG = 29.1) – the best value in the league. SV Ried scored 9.2 goals less (15 goals at xG = 25.2) – the weakest value of all 12 teams.
Ried’s Stefan Nutz provided his third assist this season in the Bundesliga in the 2-1 win against Altach. Nutz has been directly involved in 30 goals since SV Ried was promoted to the BL in 2020 – the highest number in the ranks of the Innviertler. He delivered one of his three assists this season in the first leg against RZ Pellets WAC.
The ticker from the game Hartberg vs LASK Linz
TSV Hartberg – LASK Linz Sunday 5 p.m.;
TSV Hartberg vs LASK Linz Sunday, March 19, 2023, 5 p.m., Profertil Arena Hartberg, referee: Walter Altmann
TSV Hartberg has been unbeaten in the Bundesliga against LASK for seven games (3W 4U) – for the first time and only had a longer series (9 games) in the Bundesliga against FC Admira.
TSV Hartberg has 17 points after the first 21 games and thus for the first time so few at the same time in a Bundesliga season, but most recently won the home game against RZ WAC 2-1. The East Styrians last managed two BL home wins in a row in spring 2021 – at that time under coach Markus Schopp.
LASK only lost one of their first 10 away games. Since the founding of the Bundesliga, the people of Linz have only been able to do this in the 2019/20 season, when they even won the first 11 BL away games of the season.
Hartberg’s Dominik Frieser could be his 100th game in the Bundesliga against LASK The 29-year-old has played 61 of his 99 BL games for LASK (16 for Hartberg and 22 for WAC). With the Linzer Athletiker he was runner-up in 2018/19 and won the Europa League Group D in 2019/20 with 13 points ahead of Sporting Lisbon (12), PSV Eindhoven (8) and Rosenborg BK (1).
LASK coach Dietmar Kühbauer will play his 300th game in the Bundesliga as head coach against TSV Hartberg – as the eighth coach since the Bundesliga was founded. Legendary coach Otto Baric played the most games (466).
The ticker from the game WSG Tirol vs. Sturm Graz
WSG Tirol – SK Sturm Graz Sunday 5 p.m.;
WSG Tirol – SK Sturm Graz Sunday, March 19, 2023, 5:00 p.m., Tivoli Stadium in Tyrol, referee: Manuel Schüttengruber
SK Sturm Graz lost none of the nine games in the Bundesliga against WSG Tirol (W7 D2). Sturm only played so many BL games without a single defeat against SC Austria Lustenau (W13 1U).
SK Sturm Graz scored in each of the nine games against WSG Tirol in the Bundesliga and scored 24 goals. Only against SC Austria Lustenau did Graz also score in each of the first nine duels and scored as many goals (even 29).
The WSG Tirol lost three of the last four games, in the first six games of the second half of this Bundesliga season the Tyroleans remained undefeated (5S 1U). Furthermore, the Tyroleans have not won in four BL games (1D 3N) – their longest negative series this BL season.
SK Sturm Graz scored 45 points from their first 21 BL games – that’s how many there were at the time of comparison in a Bundesliga season in 1998/99 (at that time even 47). Sturm have only suffered two defeats – only in 1997/98 (1) were they fewer after the first 21 games.
SK Sturm Graz had 54 moves in the Bundesliga this season, which included at least 10 passes – only WSG Tirol and RZ WAC (53 each) fewer. However, the Styrians had 445 pressing sequences (sequences that end within a maximum of 40 meters of the opponent’s goal and contain a maximum of 3 passes), which is more than any other team this BL season.
FC RB Salzburg – SCR Altach Sunday 5 p.m.; SC Austria Lustenau – Austria Klagenfurt Sunday 5 p.m.;
1.FC RB Salzburg 22 17 4 1 49:13 55
2. SK Sturm Graz 22 14 6 2 37:15 48
3. LASK Linz 22 10 8 4 38:28 38
4. SK Rapid Vienna 22 10 3 9 34:26 33
5. FK Austria Vienna 22 10 5 7 37:31 32
6.SK Austria Klagenfurt 22 9 3 10 35:40 30
7. WSG Tyrol 22 8 4 10 32:37 28
8 SC Austria Lustenau 22 7 6 9 29:37 27
9. Wolfsberger AC 22 6 3 13 35:41
21
10. TSV Hartberg 22 5 3 14 22:42
18
11. SV Ried 22 4 6 12
16:32 18
12. SCR Altic 22 4 5 13 22:44 17
