Lask Linz v Rapid Vienna — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Bundesliga · Sunday, 11 October 2026. Final score 0–2 (half-time 0–0). Before kick-off we rated it 60% over 2.5 goals — the match finished with 2, so that call missed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals56%44%Over
Over 3.5 goals34%66%no pick
Both teams to score56%44%Yes

The result model puts Lask Linz at 61%, the draw at 21% and Rapid Vienna at 18%, from expected goals of 2.12 and 1.07.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Bundesliga has produced over 2.5 goals in 53% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Lask Linz have 6 in 7 this season (3 of 3 at home), Rapid Vienna 6 in 7 (3 of 3 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 60% and 60%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 7 and 7 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 57% and 49%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 53%.

Head to head. These sides have met 11 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 73%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 54%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 62%, from expected goals of 2.12 for Lask Linz and 1.07 for Rapid Vienna. Folding in 30% of that view gives 56%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Lask Linz786%43%57%
Rapid Vienna786%43%43%

Head to head

4 May 26Lask Linz 3–1 Rapid ViennaO2.5
22 Mar 26Rapid Vienna 4–2 Lask LinzO2.5
30 Nov 25Lask Linz 3–0 Rapid ViennaO2.5
19 Oct 25Rapid Vienna 0–2 Lask LinzU2.5
1 Jun 25Rapid Vienna 3–0 Lask LinzO2.5
29 May 25Lask Linz 3–1 Rapid ViennaO2.5

More: Lask Linz season stats · Rapid Vienna season stats · Bundesliga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.