📏 Form Guide

Red Bull Salzburg

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Red Bull Salzburg will be looking for another win after a 1-2 Bundesliga success versus FC Blau-Weiss Linz.

In that game, Red Bull Salzburg had 68% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Red Bull Salzburg, the scorers were Petar Ratkov (79') and Edmund Baidoo (94'). For their opponents, Blau-Weiss Linz had 12 shots on goal with 5 on target. Simon Seidl (9') was the scorer for FC Blau-Weiss Linz.

Matches with Red Bull Salzburg have tended to be lively affairs recently with high scoring anticipated. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 20 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 11 of them belonging to Red Bull Salzburg. While that may be of interest, we will just have to wait and see whether that pattern might persist here in this game.

Their previous form shows that Red Bull Salzburg:

• have not lost a league tie with Rapid Vienna in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Rapid Vienna

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Rapid Vienna will go into the meeting following on from a 3-1 Bundesliga win against Sturm Graz in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Rapid Vienna had 57% possession and 19 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Rapid Vienna, goals were scored by Bendegúz Bolla (21', 78') and Guido Burgstaller (41'). Sturm Graz had 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Leon Grgic (66') was the scorer for Sturm Graz.

The stats don’t lie, and Rapid Vienna have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in total. In defence, Rapid Vienna certainly have room for improvement.

Taking a look at their past results, Rapid Vienna:

• have not beaten Red Bull Salzburg when they've played them away from home in the last 17 matches in the league. Imagine their relief when they finally get an away win.
• remain undefeated by Red Bull Salzburg in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 09/12/2023, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Red Bull Salzburg winning 2 of those games, Rapid Vienna 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A total of 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 for Die Bullen and 8 coming from Die Grün-Weißen. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league game between the two was Bundesliga match day 1 on 30/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Rapid Vienna 0-2 Red Bull Salzburg.

In that match, Rapid Vienna had 50% possession and 10 shots at goal with 2 on target.

For their opponents, Red Bull Salzburg had 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Yorbe Vertessen (37', 48') scored.

The match was refereed by Alexander Harkam.

📰 Team News: Red Bull Salzburg

It’s our opinion that Die Bullen will probably use a 4-4-2 system, beginning the first half with Alexander Schlager, Leandro Morgalla, Joane Gadou, Samson Baidoo, Aleksa Terzic, Mads Bidstrup, Takumu Kawamura, Dorgeles Nene, Oscar Gloukh, Karim Onisiwo and Yorbe Vertessen.

ℹ️ Team News: Rapid Vienna

Rapid Vienna boss Stefan Kulovits has a number of players out of action. Mamadou Sangaré (muscular problems), Tobias Børkeeiet (Cartilage damage), Laurenz Orgler (Knee injury), Jakob Schöller (Muscle injury) and Amin-Elias Gröller (unknown injury) can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Die Grün-Weißen appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Niklas Hedl, Bendegúz Bolla, Dominic Vincze, Ange Ahoussou, Moritz Oswald, S. Raux Yao, Romeo Amane, Nikolaus Wurmbrand, Matthias Seidl, Isak Jansson and Guido Burgstaller.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that Rapid Vienna are certainly able to get a goal against this Red Bull Salzburg side, however that realistically won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Red Bull Salzburg at the end of the match. Hopefully this is a good one.

Andre Moura, 04:08 23/05/2025