Austria vs Turkey Matchday Stats Preview

This will be the first meeting in a major tournament between Austria and Türkiye, with Austria winning two of the last three encounters in all competitions (L1), including a 6-1 victory in March of this year.

In competitive matches, Türkiye are unbeaten in their last five games against Austria (W4 D1), keeping a clean sheet each time; this is the first such meeting since a goalless draw in a EURO 2012 qualifier in September 2011.

Austria have qualified for the knockout stages of a major tournament for only a fourth time, also doing so at the 1934 and 1954 World Cups and EURO 2020, losing 2-1 to Italy in the round of 16 in the latter.

Türkiye have reached the knockouts stages of the UEFA European Championship finals for just the third time, after 2000 and 2008, reaching the semi-finals in the latter, though they’re yet to win such a game in their history (D1 L2).

Only Germany (8.8) had a lower PPDA in the group stages of EURO 2024 than Austria (9.0), while they were second for tackles (61) behind Georgia (63) and top for fouls conceded (49).

Since Ralf Rangnick’s first game in charge in June 2022, only three European nations – Portugal (73%), Spain (67%) and Netherlands (64%) – have a higher win percentage than Austria (60%), who have won 15 of their 25 matches under him.

In the EURO 2024 group stages, only Portugal (5.8) and Spain (5.4) had a higher non-penalty expected goals total than Türkiye (5.2), while Vincenzo Montella’s side were also third for high turnovers (28), behind Croatia (34) and Portugal (30).

Only Ukraine (25y 281) had a younger average age of their starting XI in the group stages of EURO 2024 than Türkiye (26y 170d). Indeed, should Kenan Yildiz (19y 59d on day of the game) and Arda Güler (19y 128d on day of the game) start, it will be just the second time a nation has started two teenagers in a knockout stage game at the EUROs, after Hungary against Denmark in 1964 (Ferenc Bene and Zoltán Varga).

Christoph Baumgartner has been directly involved in nine goals in his last eight appearances for Austria (6 goals, 3 assists). He scored and assisted in the EURO 2024 group stage, becoming the first Austrian player to do so in a single European Championship tournament, and first at a major tournament since Gerhard Rodax at the 1990 World Cup.

Türkiye’s Ferdi Kadioglu created more chances from open play than any other player in the group stages of EURO 2024 (10), while only Mykola Matviienko (25) and Jérémy Doku (23) recorded more progressive carries of 10 metres or more than the full back (22).