Ried vs Rapid Vienna Prediction

Ag man, this one's interesting! Rapid Vienna are having a proper shocker lately - they've lost 4 of their last 5 games and can't seem to buy a win. Getting thumped 4-1 by Lech Poznan and losing 1-3 to Austria Vienna? That's not the form of a team sitting 3rd in the table, hey!

Ried might only be 6th, but they know how to handle Rapid at home. Their head-to-head record at home against Rapid is brilliant - 3 wins and 1 draw from 4 meetings. That's a 75% home win rate against these boys! Last time they met, Ried actually won away 1-2, so they've got Rapid's number.

Now, Ried's home form hasn't been great recently - only scoring 0.75 goals per game at home and winning just 25% of their home matches. But they did beat WSG Wattens 2-0 recently and got a massive 2-1 win away at Wolfsberger AC who are flying high in 4th place.

Rapid's away form is dodgy too - conceding 1.60 goals per game on the road. With their current confidence shot to pieces after that run of losses, I reckon Ried can grind out a result here. The odds of 3.75 for a home win look like proper value when you consider the H2H record and Rapid's terrible form.

Both teams to score could be on the cards since Rapid's defense is leaking goals everywhere, but I'm backing the home side to get the job done. Sometimes form goes out the window when one team just has another team's number, and that's exactly what we have here!