Match Report
The table gap was wide: 51 points between LASK Linz (1st, 54 pts) and Mattersburg (3rd, 3 pts). LASK's recent output lagged their position: 13th on form over five rounds while 1st in the table. Per game in the league, Mattersburg were scoring 1.3 and conceding 1.2, LASK Linz 2.27 and 0.91, against a competition average of 1.67 goals per team per game.
LASK Linz were unbeaten in 8, having scored in 7 consecutive games. Over the last five, Mattersburg had taken 3 of 15 points to LASK Linz's 13.
With 89 matches recorded and 1.4 yellow cards per game, A. Harkam was the man in the middle. The match was played at Pappelstadion in Mattersburg (capacity 15,700). LASK Linz led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.