Although they failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in Russia, Austria come into this game in top form having avoided defeats in their last 6 games and have kept a clean sheet in their last 3 matches leading up to this encounter. They would, however, need to do better than they did in their last match against Russia which they won, if they want to get a result against the defending world champions here.
Germany are surprisingly in a bad form leading up to this game as they have failed to win any of their last five matches. However, this game would be their first warm up before the World Cup and their fans would be hoping for a better performance from them here. The result is not useful for the Germans anyway so we expect their manager to do some experimentations here.
Germany’s poor form in their previous matches has been down to their bluntness in attack as they managed just 1 shot on target against Brazil. They have named a strong offensive team and this game should show what they would do at the World Cup.
Germany have an excellent result in this fixture as they have won all of the last nine games involving these teams.
