Red Bull Salzburg vs Austria Klagenfurt Prediction: Klagenfurt will score

During this round of Championship Group matches in the Austria Bundesliga, Red Bull Salzburg will be the team that will be playing host to Austria Klagenfurt. The club playing at home comes into this matchup as heavy favorites, while the squad coming from Klagenfurt has failed to win any of their previous four matches.

In their previous matches, Salzburg had a perfect record, winning all four games against Sturm Graz, Rapid Vienna, LASK Linz, and Sturm Graz and suffering no losses, with one game against Rapid Vienna ending in a tie. Eight goals were scored by Salzburg, while the team allowed three goals to be scored against them in those matchups. During the current league season, Salzburg has scored a total of 2.23 goals per contest on average. In terms of disciplinary actions, the home team has been issued a total of 47 yellow cards and three red cards, which results in an average of 13.41 fouls committed per game. The overall rating that each match gives Salzburg's team is 6.84. This season, Salzburg has maintained an average possession rate of 59.14% of the ball, which indicates that they are good at keeping the ball.

Austria Klagenfurt comes into this match having won one of their previous five matches against Austria Vienna, lost to LASK Linz and Sturm Graz, and drawn with LASK Linz and Austria Wien. The visiting team scored five goals in those matches, while they gave up 11. Away from home, Austria Klagenfurt scored 1.59 goals per game on average but allowed 1.82 goals to be scored against them. The squad was given 47 yellow cards and one red card, and they committed a total of 254 fouls during the game. The team rating that Austria Klagenfurt earns on average is 6.58 points per game. The Austria Klagenfurt team is not very strong at keeping possession of the ball, as evidenced by their overall average of 48.41% this season.

In recent history, Salzburg and Austria Klagenfurt have only played each other a total of seven times, with Salzburg claiming victory on five occasions and Austria Klagenfurt claiming victory once. A draw decided one of the games. In the head-to-head matchups between the two teams, Salzburg scored 17 goals, while Klagenfurt only managed to score four.

I am not going to ignore Austria Klagenfurt's recent troubles, but this away team has done exceptionally well to score at least one goal in each of their previous three encounters. In spite of the fact that Salzburg are the clear favorite in this match, and taking into account how well they have done in their most recent encounters, I will be backing Salzburg to win in a match that is anticipated to have goals scored by both teams.