Match Report
7 points and 5 places separated them: Dornbirn 14th with 33, St. Pölten 9th with 40. Dornbirn had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 5th in the league over the last five rounds against 14th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Dornbirn 1.07 scored and 1.7 conceded per game, St. Pölten 1.53 and 1.73, with the league averaging 1.49.
St. Pölten's winless run stood at 6. The last-five ledger: Dornbirn 8/15, St. Pölten 1/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 0 Dornbirn wins, 4 for St. Pölten, 0 draws, at 4.25 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 25% of those meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 75% of meetings brought at least three goals.
Stadion Birkenwiese in Dornbirn staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,000. On the scoreboard, St. Pölten led 1-0 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 3-1.