The big autumn balance of the Austrian Bundesliga

71 games or 6,390 minutes of play have been played, and the Austrian Bundesliga is saying goodbye to its short winter break.

The fans got to see 240 goals, who unfortunately were only allowed to go into the stadiums to a limited extent at first and then not at all. That results in an average of 3.4 goals per game – if the trend continues, it will be one of the highest-scoring seasons in Bundesliga history.

And it could also be one of the most exciting seasons in a long time, with no fewer than four teams at the top of the table within just one point.

LAOLA1 looks back on an eventful autumn, has unearthed a lot of exciting statistics and deals, among other things, with the bad boys, the long-running hits, the youngsters and oldies, the goal getters and much more:

The voltage

The fight at the top is more exciting than it has been for a very, very long time. Four teams are within just one point. Serial champions Salzburg are at the top with the most wins, but have suffered more defeats than Sturm, LASK and Rapid, all of which are only one point behind. Graz and the WAC have played one game less, the game in Wolfsberg will be played on January 17th, one week before the general start of the spring season.

What else I noticed:

• With 13 points, Salzburg got one point more away than in their home stadium.
• LASK did not give up a single point on the Gugl and only conceded a single goal.
• Admira are the only team that didn’t win away from home.
• Austria has the longest negative run of all teams – they did not win eight games en suite.
• The SK Sturm have only conceded five goals and played a total of seven times to zero.
• Admira and Ried have each had the longest series of defeats with five bankruptcies in a row.
• With St. Pölten, Hartberg, Austria, Altach and Admira, there are five teams that could not achieve two victories en suite.
• Most goals are scored in Salzburg games, with an average of 4.5.
• Goal poverty is the order of the day at SK Sturm, games with Graz participation only score 2.5 goals on average.

Die Kaderbreite

29 players played in the Bundesliga this autumn wearing Admira jerseys, so the team from Südstadt used by far the most kickers. This is followed by LASK with 25 players, 24 players each for Rapid, Ried and Salzburg. WSG coach Thomas Silberberger, who got by with just 20 players in autumn, has rotated the least.

The goalgetter

Sekou Koita scores a goal every 54 minutes of the game, the Salzburg striker from Mali impresses above all as a joker, has scored six goals as a substitute and four more as a member of the starting XI. Patson Daka follows behind, but he was out for a while. Third place is shared – somewhat surprisingly – by two newcomers from SKN St. Pölten, Dor Hugi and Alexander Schmidt. Schmidt is therefore also the most successful Austrian attacker. With Johannes Eggestein from LASK and Dejan Joveljic from WAC, two more summer transfers can be found in the top 10.

The assist kings

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WAC veteran Michael Liendl and Salzburg exit Dominik Szoboszlai, who is moving to Leipzig, are ex aequo at the top when it comes to the most assists. That is hardly surprising, as this duo was already in the first two places in this category at the end of last season. Michael Blauensteiner made it to fourth place as a defender. The number of only four assists at LASK-Motor Peter Michorl is disappointing.

The youngsters and the oldies

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Onurhan Babuscu was 17 years, 1 month and 27 days old on All Saints’ Day when he appeared for Admira, making him the youngest player to play this fall. He is succeeded by Yusuf Demir, who was 17 years, 3 months and 9 days old in his first game for Rapid this season. Third place goes to Salzburg talent Luka Sucic – the Croatian was 18 years and 5 days old in Salzburg’s 3-1 win in Wolfsberg. Incidentally, the youngest eleven sent Salzburg’s Jesse Marsch to the field in their 3-1 defeat against Sturm – the average age of the kickers in the starting line-up was 22.8 years.

Stefan Maierhofer had the proud age of 38 years, 3 months and 6 days in his last game for Admira. Behind them is WSG veteran Zlatko Dedic at 36 years, 2 months and 15 days. The third oldest player used is WAC professional Nemanja Rnic with 36 years, 2 months and 13 days. On average, the Hartberger starting XI players were 28.8 years old in the 1-1 draw against SK Sturm, making them the oldest team that stepped onto the pitch this autumn in the Bundesliga.

The long-running hits

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Rapids Maximilian Ullmann is the only outfield player who has been on the field from the first to the last minute of every game this fall. The Upper Austrian was also in the starting line-up in all eight European Cup games and in all three Cup games at SCR and completed a sensational 2,025 minutes of play in autumn. The remaining “long-running hits” with Austria’s Patrick Pentz, Admiras Andreas Leitner, Hartberg’s Rene Swete, WSG Tyrol’s Ferdinand Oswald and Storm’s Jörg Siebenhandl are all goalkeepers.

Die Bad Boys

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19 times this autumn a player had to go to the catacombs prematurely because he was expelled from the field. WAC central defender Luka Lochoshvili saw two reds. With Austria captain Alexander Grünwald, a second player has already been excluded twice – in his case there were two yellow-reds, and curiously, the only exclusions in his long Bundesliga career, which has almost 300 games. Most of the yellow cards have five each of Roman Kerschbaum (Admira), Alain Wiss (Altach), Maximilian Hofmann (Rapid), Philipp Wiesinger (LASK), Peter Pokorny (St. Pölten), David Gugganig (WSG) and Mohamed Camara (Salzburg) picked up.

The strong-nerved

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The Bundesliga kickers have – with two exceptions – demonstrated strong nerves from the penalty point. 30 penalties were imposed in autumn, 28 of which were converted, which results in a sensational rate of around 93 percent. The two missed penalties go to the caps of the two LASK professionals Johannes Eggestein (Altachs Martin Kobras has saved) and Rene Renner (Austria’s Patrick Pentz has saved). Rieds Marco Grüll, who kept his nerve four times, celebrated the most goals from the point. He is followed by Austria’s Christoph Monschein, Wolfsberg’s Michael Liendl and Salzburg’s Dominik Szoboszlai, each with three converted penalties.

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