Austria Wien v Rijeka background
Austria Wien have been in bad form in new UEFA home matches though will demeanour to secure a singular win as Rijeka come job in UEFA Europa League Group D.
Previous meetings
• These sides are assembly for a initial time.
• Austria’s record in 6 encounters with Croatian teams is W2 D2 L2, though they have nonetheless to win during home to a Croatian bar (D1 L2).
• Rijeka met Austrian antithesis for a initial time in this season’s UEFA Champions League third subordinate round, sketch 1-1 divided and 0-0 during home opposite Salzburg – and winning a tie on divided goals.
Form guide
• Austria Wien are though a win in 6 European home games (D2 L4).
• Rijeka are on a four-match European losing streak, and are winless in 6 UEFA fixtures (D2 L4).
• Last season’s Austrian Bundesliga runners-up, Austria Wien have not survived their final 5 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns given creation it to a quarter-finals of a 2004/05 competition.
• Croatian pretension winners for a initial time final term, Rijeka are in their third UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaign – though have nonetheless to strech a knockout phase.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Rijeka to Vienna is around 350km.
• Rijeka midfielder Alexander Gorgon assimilated a bar from Austria Wien in 2016, carrying been with his home-town group given he was a teenager. He helped them win an Austrian double in 2012/13.
• Austria Wien have a Croatian player, Marko Pejić, a former Dinamo Zagreb trainee carrying sealed after spells with Sesvete (2014) and Hajduk Split (2015–16) in his homeland.
The coaches
• Austria Wien manager given 2015, Thorsten Fink won a 2001 UEFA Champions League and several Bundesliga titles as a Bayern midfielder, and cumulative back-to-back Swiss championships as manager of Basel from 2009–11.
• Rijeka’s longest-serving coach, Slovenian Matjaž Kek was hired in 2013 and directed a group to their initial joining championship and fourth Croatian Cup in 2016/17. A defender and manager during Maribor, where his father and son also played, he was Slovenia trainer from 2007–11.