In a weekend match in week 2, on Sun Jul 31st, Austria Klagenfurt will host Rapid Wien in a meeting of these two mismatched Tipico Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, Austria Klagenfurt recorded a 1-3 loss against LASK Linz. Keito Nakamura scored the first goal for LASK Linz in the 14th minute, then Thomas Goiginger added another in the 29th minute. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 1 of their last 10, while rapid Wien sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Ried. Zimmermann struck first for Rapid Wien in the 77th minute on a feed from Thorsten Schick, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Ried couldn’t muster any offence and Rapid Wien ran away with the shutout win. Rapid Wien is looking for direction having 1 win and 0 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Rapid Wien won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Rapid Wien’s most prolific scorer has been Marco Grüll. The Austrian midfielder has netted two goals over the last five matches. Turgay Gemicibaşi has been the most prolific scorer on Austria Klagenfurt in the last five matches with two goals.