Sturm Graz vs Austria Vienna Prediction: Sturm Graz will get back to winning ways

Sturm Graz plays Austria Vienna in the first match of the championship group of the Austria Bundesliga. The match takes place at Merkur-Arena. Sturm Graz is the favorite to win this matchup, especially considering that Austria Vienna were defeated by Klagenfurt over the weekend.

After suffering a 0-2 defeat against Red Bull Salzburg in their most recent Bundesliga match, Sturm Graz will be hoping for a better showing here. During that match, Sturm Graz held possession of the ball for 55% of the game and had six shots on goal, but none of them were on target. On the other end of the field, Red Bull Salzburg had five shots on goal, with three of them finding their mark. Red Bull Salzburg's goals were scored by Nicolás Capaldo (in the 54th minute and Benjamin Seko in the 73rd minute. Sturm Graz, led by Christian Ilzer, have scored a total of nine goals over the course of their most recent six matches, which gives them an average of 1.5 goals per game. Sturm Graz have not suffered a defeat in a league match against Austria Vienna in either of their previous two meetings leading up to this one.

Austria Vienna and their supporters will be hoping for a different outcome this time around after the team's previous Bundesliga match against Austria Klagenfurt ended in a defeat. During that match, Austria Vienna had 57% possession of the ball and 15 shots on goal, with 5 of those shots hitting the target. Andreas Gruber was the only player from Austria Vienna to register a point at the 52 minute mark. 11 shots were taken by Austria Klagenfurt, but only three of them were on target. Kosmas Gkezos notched a goal for Austria Klagenfurt in both the 48th and 90th minutes. There have been at least three goals scored in each of the previous five and a half contests that Austria Vienna has participated in. During that stretch, the number of goals that were scored per game on average was 4.17, while the number of goals that were scored on average by Austria Vienna are 2.

Sturm Graz and Austria Wien have played 67 times in the previous seasons, with Sturm Graz winning 22 games and Austria Wien winning 26 games. Sturm Graz and Austria Wien have a pretty solid head-to-head history. There were 19 games where a tie resulted. In the head-to-head matchups, Sturm Graz was able to score 86 goals, while Austria Wien scored 89 goals.

Despite the fact that they were defeated in their most recent game, we have high hopes for Sturm Graz to turn things around. Meanwhile, we anticipate a defensive effort from Austria Vienna, so we can be confident that there will be few goals scored.