Preview of the 10th round of the ADMIRAL Bundesliga – salzTV – News from the Salzkammergut

FC Red Bull Salzburg – CASHPOINT SCR Altach

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m., Red Bull Arena, live on Sky, referee: Josef Spurny

• FC Red Bull Salzburg won 18 of the last 22 games against CASHPOINT SCR Altach (3D 1L) in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga. CASHPOINT SCR Altach lost 28 BL games against Salzburg – a club record.
• FC Red Bull Salzburg always scored in the last 19 games against CASHPOINT SCR Altach in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga (49 goals in total) – for the first time. Only Admira Wacker (also 19 games) managed to do that against Vorarlberg.
• FC Red Bull Salzburg has been unbeaten in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga for 12 home games against CASHPOINT SCR Altach (W11 D1). Salzburg only remained goalless in one of the 20 BL home games against Altach – on March 7, 2015 (0-1).
• As in the last six seasons, FC Red Bull Salzburg won the first two home games – no team managed to win the first two home games in seven BL seasons in a row, Salzburg now for its first time. Salzburg are unbeaten in BL home games in 2024 (W7 D3).
• CASHPOINT SCR Altach conceded 11 goals in the first nine games, as in the previous ADMIRAL Bundesliga season – just fewer in 2017/18 (9). However, the Vorarlbergers have recently remained without a goal three times in a row after always scoring in the first six games of this BL season.

SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz – Grazer AK 1902

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m., Merkur Arena, live on Sky, referee: Alexander Harkam

• For the first time since May 17, 2007, the Graz derby will be in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga – back then, SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz celebrated a 1-0 home win. SK Sturm Graz also topped the Bundesliga record against Grazer AK 1902 and won 36 of the 96 Bundesliga duels (31D 29L).
• SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz has been unbeaten in 13 matches against promoted teams in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga (W11 D2). Sturm’s last defeat against a newly promoted BL team was in October 2018 at TSV Egger Glas Hartberg (0:2 A), and Sturm’s last home defeat was against a newly promoted club in November 2016 (1: 2 against St. Pölten).
• When SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz last played duels in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga against the newly promoted Grazer AK 1902, Sturm remained winless. In the 1995/96 season, GAK won three of the four duels (1U) and kept clean in two of them.
• SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz celebrated its highest win in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga since September 19, 2021 (5-0 against WSG Tirol) with a 5-0 win against FC Red Bull Salzburg. As in the previous season, Sturm Graz won six of the first nine BL games and, for the first time since the reform of the league, won at least six of the first nine BL games in two BL seasons in a row.
• SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz have won four of their first five home games this season in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga – the first time they have won as many since the reform of the league. The Graz team finally managed this in 2017/18 (also 4S). Sturm scored 13 goals in BL’s first five home games – the last time they scored more was in 2000/01 (14).

FC Blau Weiß Linz – RZ Pellets WAC

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m., Hofmann Personal Stadium, live on Sky, referee: Julian Weinberger

• FC Blau Weiß Linz was undefeated in three duels in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga against RZ Pellets WAC (W2 D1) and did not concede a goal in each of these three matches. The Blue-White have as high a percentage of clean sheets (75% – 3 out of 4) against any other team in the Bundesliga.
• After nine games this season in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga, FC Blau Weiß Linz has 14 points – last season at the time of comparison there were five points less for Linz (9). Had they won against RZ Pellets WAC, Linz would have already scored as many points in 10 games as they did in the 17 games until the 2023/24 winter break.
• FC Blau Weiß Linz were the only team to score in each of their nine matches this season in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga Linz scored in each of their last 10 BL matches over the seasons – club record long Despite the streak of goals, only TSV Egger Glas Hartberg (88) shot fewer shots than Blau Weiß (91) this BL season.
• The RZ Pellets WAC conceded 16 goals in the first nine games of this ADMIRAL Bundesliga season – only Grazer AK (18) conceded more goals in the league and scored 21 goals – more than any other team. A total of 37 goals were scored in WAC games (21 goals; 16 goals conceded) – no other team scored more than 29 goals (GAK, LASK and Sturm).
• The RZ Pellets WAC have won their last two away games in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga after the Carinthians started the season with two away defeats. In the last two away games against LASK (5) and SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz (3), the Lavanttal team scored eight goals after scoring just one goal in the first two away games.

SK Austria Klagenfurt – FK Austria Vienna

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 2:30 pm, 28 Black Arena, live on Sky, referee: Sebastian Gishamer

• FK Austria Wien lost only one of the 10 duels against SK Austria Klagenfurt in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga, in a home match in April 2023 (1:2) – with two wins and seven draws.
• SK Austria Klagenfurt did not win any of the five home matches against FK Austria Wien (4D 1L) in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga. Only against SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz has Klagenfurt played more BL home games without winning a single one (6L).
• FK Austria Wien ended a four-game winless streak in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga with a 2-1 win against Grazer AK 1902. Now Wiener Austria could celebrate two BL victories in a row for the first time this season and for the first time under Stephan Helm. .
• FK Austria Wien have scored five of their 12 goals this season in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga with headers – the most and, at 42%, the highest of all teams. On the other hand, SK Austria Klagenfurt conceded only one headed goal – only SK Rapid (0) conceded less.
• In the current season of the ADMIRAL Bundesliga, no team has made as many shots after a win in a top ball as FK Austria Wien (15), on the other hand, no no team conceded more goals after a high ball win by their opponents than SK Austria Klagenfurt (2).

WSG Tirol – LASK

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 2:30 p.m., Tivoli Tirol Stadium, live on Sky, referee: Arnes Talic

• LASK has been unbeaten in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga for three duels against WSG Tirol (2W 1D) – only longer from May 2021 to March 2022 (4 – 2W 2D). In the last BL duel in November 2023, the WSG remained goalless against LASK for the first time since March 2022, after the Tyroleans had always scored in the previous five BL duels (13 goals all in all).
• WSG Tirol won only one of the last eight matches (3D 4L) in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga – 3-1 against RZ Pellets WAC in the 8th round – but was unbeaten in two BL matches (1W 1D) and could now remain unbeaten in three. BL games in a row for the first time this season. The WSG only achieved three unbeaten matches in a row in March/April in 2024 (at that time 4 in a row).
• LASK are unbeaten in three games in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga and have taken seven points from them – more than twice as many as in the first six BL games of this season (W1 L5).
• LASK scored nine goals in the last three ADMIRAL Bundesliga games – as many as only SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz in their last three BL games. WSG Tirol have only conceded three goals in their last four BL games – as few as SK Rapid and FC Blau Weiß Linz in their last four BL games.
• Although LASK only got 50 high ball wins (7 more teams), Linz athletes fired 14 shots after high ball wins – only FK Austria Wien (15) more. WSG Tirol fired only five shots after 51 high ball wins – only TSV Egger Glas Hartberg (4) fired fewer shots after high ball wins in this ADMIRAL Bundesliga season.

SK Rapid – TSV Egger Glas Hartberg

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 5:00 p.m., Allianz Stadium, live on Sky, referee: Markus Hameter

• TSV Egger Glas Hartberg won both away games against SK Rapid in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga last season – for the first time in the BL season. TSV Egger Glas Hartberg won five BL away games in Hütteldorf – as many as Admira and RZ Pellets WAC (5 each).
• In the ADMIRAL Bundesliga, SK Rapid either scored at least twice (5 times) or not at all (4 times) in home matches against TSV Egger Glas Hartberg and only kept a clean sheet in one of the nine BL home games – in March 2021 (4:0). The goal difference in this duel at the Allianz Stadium is (17:17).
• SK Rapid lost only one of the first nine matches (W5 D3) in this ADMIRAL Bundesliga season. Since the reform of the league, the Hütteldorfers have only managed this in 2020/21. Rapid also achieved its current 18 points in 2020/21 (also 18).
• SK Rapid remained unbeaten in the first five home games of this ADMIRAL Bundesliga season (W4 D1) and scored 13 points in those five home games – again in the three-point era (1999/2000, 2004/05, 2009/10 and 2024/25). Rapid have won five of their first six BL home games since 1995/96, only in 2004/05 and 2009/10.
• TSV Egger Glas Hartberg celebrated three wins in a row in the ADMIRAL Bundesliga for the first time since October/November 2023 – in the three games under Manfred Schmid, as many wins were achieved as in the previous 19 BL games combined. In addition, Hartberg has been unbeaten in six BL matches (W3 D3) – as far back as the last one in April/May 2023 (also 6). The Eastern Styrians have never remained unbeaten in seven BL matches in their Bundesliga history.