📏 Form Guide

Rapid Vienna

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Rapid Vienna will be wanting a better result here following a 0-2 Bundesliga defeat in their last game at the hands of TSV Hartberg.

In that game, Rapid Vienna managed 61% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, TSV Hartberg had 4 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Jürgen Heil (34') and Elias Havel (82') scored for TSV Hartberg.

In their preceding 6 games, Johannes Hoff Thorup's Rapid Vienna have netted a combined total of 9 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

Analysis of their past results shows that Rapid Vienna:

• have not lost a league tie with Red Bull Salzburg in their last 2 matches.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league games.

Red Bull Salzburg

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Red Bull Salzburg come into this clash after a 3-1 Bundesliga win to beat Austria Vienna in their last outing.

In that game, Red Bull Salzburg managed 53% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For Red Bull Salzburg, the goals were scored by Yorbe Vertessen (16') and Jannik Schuster (22'). Austria Vienna got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. Reinhold Ranftl (34') and Samuel Şahin-Radlinger (76' Own goal) scored for Austria Vienna.

The stats don’t lie, and Red Bull Salzburg have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals overall. Defensively, Red Bull Salzburg can certainly do much better. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be continued into this game, of course.

Coming into this clash, Red Bull Salzburg have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 07/12/2024 tells us that Rapid Vienna have won 2 of these games & Red Bull Salzburg 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 from Die Grün-Weißen and 10 being from Die Bullen. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league fixture between these sides was Bundesliga match day 23 on 15/03/2026 when it finished Red Bull Salzburg 0-1 Rapid Vienna.

On that day, Red Bull Salzburg had 50% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Rapid Vienna had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Matthias Seidl (69') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Markus Hameter.

📰 Team News: Rapid Vienna

In all likelihood, Die Grün-Weißen look set to employ a 3-4-2-1 formation for the game and select Niklas Hedl, Nenad Cvetkovic, S. Raux Yao, Ange Ahoussou, Bendegúz Bolla, Matthias Seidl, Romeo Amane, Nikolaus Wurmbrand, Petter Nosa Dahl, Andreas Weimann and Ercan Kara.

ℹ️ Team News: Red Bull Salzburg

We reckon that Die Bullen seem likely to play in a 4-1-4-1 formation by sending out Alexander Schlager, Stefan Lainer, Jannik Schuster, Tim Drexler, Frans Kraetzig, Mads Bidstrup, Yorbe Vertessen, Sota Kitano, Maurits Kjaergaard, Kerim Alajbegovic and Karim Konate.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Rapid Vienna will need to apply a lot of pressure to be putting a goal past this Red Bull Salzburg team who we reckon will get the vital goal that wins it.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Red Bull Salzburg when the full-time whistle blows.

We’ll see what happens.

Andre Moura, 12:08 26/04/2026