Salzburg vs Austria Vienna — Austrian Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 30 August 2026

Austrian Bundesliga·Sunday, 30 August 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 9.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Salzburg

74%

pick · result

Draw

17%

Austria Vienna

9%

Final score

4–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Salzburg win 74.0% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Salzburg win. Expected goals 2.10–0.83 against 4–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals57%5 scored
Both teams score53%yes
Salzburg clean sheet43%no
Austria Vienna clean sheet9%no
Salzburg score 2+66%yes
Austria Vienna score 2+20%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.0381
1X2 Brier score0.1039
Probability on the result74.0%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 2–1 (14.2%), 1–0 (13.8%), 2–0 (12.8%). It finished 4–1.

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Salzburg

1 AugHvs Hartberg1–0W
9 AugAvs Wolfsberger AC1–1D
16 AugAvs WSG Tirol3–0W
30 AugHvs Austria Vienna4–1W
2 SeptHvs Rapid Vienna5–1W

Austria Vienna

13 SeptHvs Austria Lustenau2–1W
2 AugAvs Wolfsberger AC0–3L
9 AugHvs LASK0–2L
16 AugAvs Hartberg2–0W
30 AugAvs Salzburg1–4L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatSalzburg
(Home · 4 matches)
Austria Vienna
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate50.0%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate75.0%75.0%
Clean sheet50.0%25.0%
Avg goals3.753.50

Home stats use Salzburg's home record; away stats use Austria Vienna's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.