Hosts have much more motivation here.

Tuesday's decision by the Permanent Neutral Court of Arbitration, according to which SV Stripfing, as champions of the Regionalliga Ost (third category), can now be promoted to 2. Liga, further fuels the relegation battle, as three teams could now be affected to the relegation.

Lafnitz is one of the few teams that are safe from relegation and are coming to Greisbergers Betten-Arena into a kind of siesta mode with four defeats in a row. They have 6 points advantage with relegation, with just 9 remaining to play.

Their trainer Philipp Semlic, announced his departure after this season at the beginning of the month and wants to take the next step in his career. So the team is already thinking about the next season, with very poor performances lately.

On the other hand, after a promising start to the second half of the season with 3 victories in a row, Liefering seemed to be heading towards the top or a single-digit place in the table. But then a downward trend followed, with only 1 win in the last 8 games.

They lost two top players, top scorer Karim Konaté and central defender Samson Baidoo, who were “promoted" respectively to Bundesliga leader Red Bull Salzburg.

With 31 points and only 2 above the relegation zone, the Fabio Ingolitsch team is in danger.

In their two next games to close the season, they will play against relegation rivals Sturm Graz (Am) and Austria Vienna (Am), so this is a must win match for them against the team who secure their place in 2. Liga and seems to be out of breath.

东道主在这里有更多的动机。

根据永久中立仲裁法庭周二的决定，作为地区联赛冠军(第三类)的SV strifing现在可以提升到2级。由于三支球队现在可能受到降级的影响，进一步加剧了降级之战。

拉弗尼茨是少数几支免于降级的球队之一，他们带着四连败进入了一种午睡模式。他们在保级前有6分的优势，剩下的比赛只剩下9分。

他们的教练菲利普·塞米利克在本月初宣布他将在本赛季结束后离开，并希望在他的职业生涯中迈出下一步。所以球队已经在考虑下个赛季了，最近的表现非常糟糕。

另一方面，在本赛季后半段取得了3连胜的良好开局后，利弗林似乎正朝着积分榜的榜首或个位数前进。但随后出现了下降趋势，在最近的8场比赛中只有1场胜利。

他们失去了两名顶级球员，即最佳射手卡里姆·科纳托尔和中卫萨姆森·拜杜，他们分别被“提升”到德甲领头羊萨尔茨堡红牛队。

法比奥·因戈利奇队积31分，仅高出降级区2分，处境危险。

在本赛季结束前的两场比赛中，他们将与保级对手斯特姆格拉茨(Am)和奥地利维也纳(Am)进行比赛，因此对他们来说，这是一场必须取得胜利的比赛。似乎已经上气不接下气了。