Rapid plays for Champions League
2021-05-09
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With 6 points behind and 4 games until the end of the championship, Rapid Vienna can consider a possible title. Especially because they are playing against the first-placed Salzburg in the next round. In addition to the eventual fight for the title, they have another reason to win today's match, and that is to keep the second position, which guarantees their participation in the qualifications for the Champions League. Currently, their first companion is the Sturm team with 6 points less than them. Sturm has an extremely difficult task because today he is playing against the already mentioned Salzburg and Rapid certainly hopes that his closest companion will drop points there. Rapid enters this game after two very important and efficient victories, both against Tirol, in which they scored as many as 7 goals. In the last 10 rounds, they have only one defeat, from the first team on the table, after they received a red card at the beginning of the second half and thus remained with the player less on the field. With today's opponent, they have a very good history of matches and in the last 5 mutual duels they have 4 victories, of which the one from April stands out, where they defeated them 8-1 on the away field. Rapid has lost only twice out of 14 matches played at home, which will make the task even more difficult for the guests.
Wolfsberger is currently in the fifth position, which does not secure them a place in Europe, and that is something that is their goal this season. They play very inconsistently throughout the season, which is best seen from the fact that they have an identical number of victories and defeats in previous matches. Apart from the last-placed Tirol, they are the only team that has a negative goal difference and that is a clear indication that their defense is not at the highest level. Another fact that does not go in favor of the guests before today's match is that in the last 7 away games, Rapid do not know about the victory with a very bad goal difference of 17-5.
Rapid is definitely a favorite here, especially if we take into account the current form and game at home. What characterizes the mutual duels of these two teams is the large number of goals, so we could see more than 2.5 goals here without much difficulty.
