Austria vs Slovakia Match Analysis and Prediction

On this coming Sunday Austria will be hosting Slovakia in an International friendly match at the Ernst Happel-Stadium. The match is scheduled to kickoff at 16:30.

Austria which is ranked 23^rd in the world are at a better form and at home as well. They have secured entry into the continental competition with a second place finish in group G in the qualifiers, and had scored the highest number of goals as well as conceding the least.

On the other hand Slovakia are ranked 36^th in the world, they were part of league B same as Austria in the UNL. However by the end of the campaign they were placed dead-last in the group and therefore relegated to group C. Slovakia were also placed third in group E in the euro qualifiers, and on the dead-last placed Azerbaijan had conceded more goals than them.

Austria are unbeaten in 16 of their last 20 overall games and impressively 13 of these were wins. Moreover they have scored two or more goals in seven of their last 9 home appearances.

Slovakia on the other hand were winless in 13 of their previous 16 overall games and have a total of just four wins in the past four years period.

Austria are coming off a narrow defeat of 1-0 to England, Bukayo Saka’s 56^th goal setting the win, while Slovakia drew 1-1 in their last match with Bulgaria with Laszlo Bene’s cancelling out Atanas’s Iliev’s early goal.

Austria vs Slovakia head to head

The last time the two international sides met was in an international friendly in November 2016. The game finished 0-0 draw.

Here are the results of their previous meetings:

• 15/11/16 Austria 0-0 Slovakia
• 10/08/11 Austria 1-2 Slovakia
• 31/03/04 Slovakia 1-1 Austria

Home

• England 1-0 Austria
• Austria 0-4 Denmark
• Austria3-1 Faroe Islands
• Scotland 2-2 Austria
• Austria 1-1 Norway

Away

• Slovakia 1-1 Bulgaria
• Slovakia 2-1 Russia
• Slovakia 2-2 Malta
• Cyprus 0-0 Slovakia
• Czech Republic 2-0 Slovakia

Austria team news

Marko Arnautovic will be unavailable for selection following a thigh injury.

Slovakia team news

Slovakia will go into Sunday’s game against Austria without any injury concerns. The star trio of Martin Dubravka, Marek Hamsik and Milan Skriniar are all expected to get starts.

Prediction and odds

• Austria win
• Over 2.5
• Draw