Horn hosts Austria Klagenfurt in round 27 of Austrian 2. Liga. The match will be played on Friday, July 10th at Waldviertler Volksbank Arena (Horn)
Until recently, Horn was threatened with relegation from the division, but the shocking pace of scoring in the last rounds allowed moving away from the danger zone. Nine points scored in the last matches with neighbors from the basement of the tournament standings allow the team to make a sigh of relief, but it’s too early to relax - there are only five points from the relegation zone. Horn has four difficult matches ahead - with leaders Austria Klagenfurt and Ried at home, and with Dornbirn and LASK juniors away. Horn didn’t manage to keep a clean sheet in any of the last five rounds - two defeats (away and at home - 1: 2 and 3: 1) and three wins (one at home 3:2 and two away 1:2 and 1:3). This is not surprising if you look at the goal difference - after 26 rounds, 52 scored and 53 goals conceded.
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Austria Klagenfurt leads the division, and maintaining leadership in the remaining four rounds will mean promotion to the top division. Klagenfurt’s leadership is not so big as to relax - Ried is behind by only one point, and if Ried doesn’t have an unsuccessful streak of three defeats in a row, it would occupy the top of the tournament Olympus. Now the fate of the first place is entirely in the hands of Austria Klagenfurt. To arrange promotion to the Austrian football elite, it remains to play against the remaining rivals without misfires, fortunately the fate in the form of a calendar provided rivals from among the unmotivated - Horn, Austria Vienna 2, Amstetten and Wacker Innsbruck have already accomplished tournament tasks, and they will not provide stubborn resistance without additional incentives. In turn, Klagenfurt did not concede in only two matches - with Austria Lustenau, which is fighting for survival and decided not to waste strength on useless resistance to the leader to focus on other opponents, as well as in the game with LASK, which is simply finishing the season.
I think that none of the teams will allow hammering defeat - even having conceded the first goal, they will try to equalize, especially since an established game in the attacking line allows counting on goals. At the same time, no one will give all the best since both opponents will keep in mind the remaining matches - the tournament will end in July. In all recent matches of these rivals, more than five goals have not been scored, so it’s quite reasonable to expect that the emerging trend will continue in the near future.
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score – yes and Under 5.5 goals scored
