📏 Form Guide
Rapid Vienna WWDLLL 📉
Rapid Vienna won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 2-1 Bundesliga loss in their previous game against Red Bull Salzburg.
In that game, Rapid Vienna managed 53% possession and 25 shots at goal with 13 of them on target. The only player to score for Rapid Vienna was Andrija Radulović (45'). For their opponents, Red Bull Salzburg got 13 shots on goal with 6 on target. Soumaila Diabaté (38') and Sota Kitano (57') scored for Red Bull Salzburg.
Matches with Rapid Vienna have proved to be lively encounters lately with high scoring being the norm. Over their past six games, the sum total of 22 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 10 of these being chalked up by Rapid Vienna.
Coming into this contest, Rapid Vienna are winless against LASK Linz in their last 8 matches in the league.
LASK Linz WLLWLD
Previously, LASK Linz drew 3-3 in the Bundesliga tie with TSV Hartberg.
In that game, LASK Linz managed 64% possession and 20 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For LASK Linz, the goals were scored by Christoph Lang (90'), Kasper Jørgensen (92') and Andrés Andrade (95'). On the other side, TSV Hartberg got 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Fabian Wilfinger (45'), Elias Havel (63') and Marco Hoffmann (70') scored for TSV Hartberg.
Maximilian Ritscher's LASK Linz have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 8 times in the course of their latest sextet of matches. The total of goals that have been scored against them during that period adds up to 8.
Leading up to this clash, LASK Linz:
- have left without a victory over Rapid Vienna when having played them away from home in the previous 9 league matches. It has been a terrible run on the road.
- haven't been beaten by Rapid Vienna in away games against them for the last 4 league games. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
- are without an away win for the past 5 league matches.
👥 Head to head
A look at their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 15/03/2024 shows us that Rapid Vienna have won 1 of them and LASK Linz 3, with the tally of draws being 2.
A combined sum of 17 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them for Die Grün-Weißen and 11 being from LASK Linz. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.
📰 Team News: Rapid Vienna
The Rapid Vienna manager Peter Stöger will be grateful to have no fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash with a fully injury-free group ready to go.
It seems likely that Die Grün-Weißen look set to make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for the game, utilising Niklas Hedl, Bendegúz Bolla, Nenad Cvetkovic, S. Raux Yao, Jannes Horn, Romeo Amane, Tobias Gulliksen, Andrija Radulovic, Matthias Seidl, Nikolaus Wurmbrand and Claudy Mbuyi.
🗞️ Team News: LASK Linz
With a fully healthy group to choose from, the LASK Linz manager Maximilian Ritscher does not have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.
It’s our belief that LASK Linz seem likely to utilise a 3-4-3 system with a starting lineup of Lukas Jungwirth, Modou Kéba Cissé, Andrés Andrade, Melayro Bogarde, Florian Flecker, Lukas Kacavenda, Sascha Horvath, George Bello, Moses Usor, Sasa Kalajdzic and Valon Berisha.
💭 Prediction
We’ve got the feeling that LASK Linz will likely create enough chances to get a goal against this Rapid Vienna lineup, however it may not be enough to prevent defeat.
We’re going for both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Rapid Vienna at the end of this one. We are expecting it to be pretty even.
Renata Leite, 10:20 19/10/2025