2026/2027 league phase

Champions League

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LASK
Head coach: Didi Kühbauer
Rank
33rd
Pts
0
P
2
Form
🔴 Very poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
5/10
Attack
2/10
Defence
1/10
Form
1/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:—

33rd with 0 pts from 2 matches: 0 wins, 0 draws, 2 defeats.

3 goals scored, 7 conceded.

After his resounding triple against LASK in the Champions League, Bradley Barcola was expected at the turn of the Premier League. But despite a decisive pass during Liverpool's victory against (...)

Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Transferred to Liverpool in exchange for €145 million (including a bonus), Bradley Barcola (24 years old) distinguished himself this week with a triple in the Champions League, against LASK (6-3). However, (...)

Foot Mercato · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

A rampant display in Austria saw Bradley Barcola ignite his Liverpool account with the first hat-trick of his professional career and Andoni Iraola’s team devastate Lask’s big night in the Champions League. The major surprise was how the hosts managed to score three.

The Guardian — Football · 14 Oct 2026

Triple scorer on LASK's lawn yesterday early in the evening, Bradley Barcola was elected (...)

Foot Mercato · 15 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Liverpool FC (H) · 3-6
Lvs PAE AEK (A) · 0-1
LL
3 scored / 7 conceded over 2 matches played
Rest: 4 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 0D - 1L
Away form
0W - 0D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.5
Goals conceded per match
3.5
At home
3 scored · 6 conceded in 1 match
Away
0 scored · 1 conceded in 1 match
Over 2.5 goals
1 of 2
Both teams score
1 of 2
Clean sheets
0 of 2
Failed to score
1 of 2
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How LASK play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing style not documented for this team.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
The league and cup double winners remain unbeaten in the Austrian Bundesliga and went back to the top of the table on 1 September, with a window concluded by two experienced additions.
Coach / players / board relationship
Mood with the supporters
Qualification triggered a genuine rush for tickets: the pre-sale reserved for LASK-Plus season-ticket holders opened at midday on Wednesday, with the option of reserving up to four blocks of four seats for family and friends, and supporters logging in an hour early. For the first away trip, to Athens on 8 September, the club has however decided against organising a group journey, unlike for Glasgow. Away-ticket requests are open until 6 September at 23:59, with one named ticket per customer account, sent the day before the match and usable only on a phone. The club directs supporters with difficulties to AEK's box office.
Pressure on the head coach
Club objectives
Discovering the league phase with a squad strengthened at the last moment, building on the four home fixtures against Liverpool, Porto, Fenerbahçe and Slovan Bratislava.
Recent internal tensions
Absences
No absence recorded in the editorial content.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Sporting CP — LASK

AwayWednesday 21 October at 21:00Matchday 3
In 3 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
Prediction
EstimateSporting CP — LASK
66 %
1 · Sporting CP
16 %
X · draw
18 %
2 · LASK
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 2 matches played by Sporting CP, 2 matches by LASK. Confidence: low
The calculation rests on only 2 matches per team. Shrinkage deliberately pulls the estimate close to a neutral split: it barely tells the two teams apart.
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 141 goals scored over 68 team-matches played (34 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 2.07 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Sporting CP — attack5 in 2 matches1.211.05
    Sporting CP — defence1 in 2 matches0.240.81
    LASK — attack3 in 2 matches0.720.93
    LASK — defence7 in 2 matches1.691.17
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.25 for Sporting CP and 0.25 for LASK. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 2.47 goal scored on average by the host against 1.68 by the visitor, over the 34 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.47; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.36, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.15. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Sporting CP at home: 3.00 pts/match versus 3.00 overall over 1 match → ×1.000
    LASK away: 0.00 pts/match versus 0.00 overall over 1 match → ×1.000
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λSporting CP = 2.07 × 1.05 × 1.17 × 1.15 × 1.000 = 2.94
    λLASK = 2.07 × 0.93 × 0.81 × 1.000 = 1.56
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 65.6%, draw 16.1%, away win 18.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 7.5%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Squad not documented for this team yet.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss17 Oct 2026
LASK goleia in the Austrian League before visiting Sporting for Champions
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss14 Oct 2026
Bradley Barcola’s clinical hat-trick inspires Liverpool to 6-3 rout of Lask
Source: The Guardian — Football
rss16 Oct 2026
Debast continues to be a headache in Sporting and fails to hit with LASK
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss14 Oct 2026
On which channel do you watch LASK Linz Liverpool live?
Source: Soccernews
rss15 Oct 2026
Liverpool beats LASK, next opponent of Sporting, and joins the leaders
Source: RTP Desporto
rss14 Oct 2026
Barcola shines as Liverpool score six to beat LASK
Source: BBC Sport
Institutional3 Sep 2026
Garmin become official smartwatch partner of LASK and its academy: professional players and youngsters receive Venu X1 and Forerunner 170 watches and CIRQA bands for continuous monitoring of load, heart rate and recovery. “The more precisely we measure, the more we can individualise the monitoring,” commented Didi Kühbauer.
Source: LASK.at
European competition3 Sep 2026
LASK will open their league phase in Athens against AEK on Tuesday 8 September at 18:45. The club has opened away-ticket requests until 6 September at 23:59, with a single ticket per customer account, a named ticket emailed the day before and presentable only on a smartphone; no organised travel is planned, unlike for the match in Glasgow.
Source: LASK.at
Club3 Sep 2026
Before Europe, LASK play the second round of the Austrian Cup on Saturday 5 September at the Koralmstadion, away at Deutschlandsberger SC.
Source: LASK.at
Supporters2 Sep 2026
The Champions League ticket release caused a rush in Linz: the protected pre-sale opened at midday on Wednesday, with LASK-Plus season-ticket holders able to reserve up to four additional blocks of four seats for family and friends, some logging in as early as 11:00.
Source: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Club2 Sep 2026
Sasa Kalajdzic explained that he had consulted Austria head coach Ralf Rangnick before agreeing to return to Linz, and that Rangnick had approved the idea. The 29-year-old forward says he is “fundamentally happy to be back” but still lacks matches: he did not play at Wolfsberg and his involvement in the cup remained uncertain.
Source: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Linz's last move of the window before the midnight deadline for Champions League registration: defender Daniel Elfadli, 29, arrives on loan from Hamburg, having preferred LASK to the German second division.
Source: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Result1 Sep 2026
LASK won 3-1 against Wolfsberger AC, reduced to ten men after 110 seconds by Raffael Behounek's dismissal, and remain unbeaten in the Austrian league while going top of the table.
Source: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Head coach31 Aug 2026
The trip to Wolfsberg was Didi Kühbauer's first return to his former club since his abrupt exit in 2025, and LASK's first match there in 339 days: on 27 September 2025 the Linz side lost 0-1 there when they were second from bottom and WAC third.
Source: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
Transfers30 Aug 2026
LASK have completed the return of Austria international forward Sasa Kalajdzic from Wolverhampton, on a contract running to summer 2029; the player accepted a sharp pay cut, with sporting director Dino Buric saying he had concrete offers from Serie A and the Bundesliga.
Source: Salzburger Nachrichten
Transfers30 Aug 2026
Austrian forward Sasa Kalajdzic is leaving Wolverhampton permanently to join LASK, the club where he was already playing on loan the previous season.
Source: Wolves.co.uk
News last verified on 17 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.