Challenge League prediction and pre-match guide: Lausanne Sport moderate favoured to top Aarau

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Fri 03.February
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de la Tuilière

Happy home supporters, the away team steals it or a point each? It's all possible when the mid-table teams Lausanne Sport and Aarau battle at Stade de la Tuilière.

Insights:
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Challenge League
  • Aarau have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Lausanne Sport and Aarau should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Lausanne Sport form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stade de la Tuilière as Lausanne Sport have scored 22 goals to get 21 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Challenge League are 6-3-0 (wins-draws-losses). Lausanne have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A good away victory last time out for Lausanne Sport, who won 4-2 against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy (placed 3rd). Finally, a league victory after five fixtures without one. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Before that, Lausanne Sport drew at home versus Aarau.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Lausanne have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 5 and lost 0.

Goals decide football matches and Lausanne Sport are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 9 league matches.

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Aarau form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Challenge League travels is 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Aarau won their last game, 1-0 versus Thun played at home.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Lausanne Sport that ended 2-2.

Take note that 14 of this side's 18 latest league matches have ended with at least three goals.

Aarau are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 9 away games so far. The Aarau manager Smiljanic has some worries about the defense as 19 goals have been conceded in these travels. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two duelists also faced each other earlier on this season: Lausanne Sport - Aarau 2-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lausanne Sport five wins, three draws and Aarau two victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LausanneB. Labeau
B. Labeau
11 goals
AarauS. Vladi
S. Vladi
8 goals
AarauV. Fazliu
V. Fazliu
6 goals

Lausanne Sport missing players

Aarau missing players

Lausanne Sport Aarau
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 1 9 19
9 6 0 Won W 1 3 7
4 3 1 Drew D 0 3 7
6 0 0 Lost L 0 3 5
30 22 1 Scored S 4 16 33
23 9 1 Conceded C 0 19 34
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
68% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 84%
58% 78% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 89% 74%
37% 56% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 53%
16% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 21%
53% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 68%
21% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 22% 21%
37% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 11%
 
6.4 6.8 12 Corners for (avg) C F 8 5.1 5.8
4.5 4.1 5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.4 5.5
2.8 2.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.1 2.2
6 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.7 13.8 13 Shots (avg) S ( 9 11 10.3
5.1 6.7 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.7 4.2
31% 37% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 80% 38% 41%
 
9.6 11 8 Shots against (avg) S A 15 12.3 11.7
4.4 4.4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 6.3 5.4
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Aarau have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Aarau haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Aarau's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Lausanne Sport have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Lausanne Sport have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Lausanne Sport have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Challenge League
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (8) in Challenge League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Wil 19 10 5 4 38 24 9 7 2 0 25 6 10 3 3 4 13 18 14 35
2 Yverdon Sport 19 11 2 6 40 33 9 6 1 2 21 10 10 5 1 4 19 23 7 35
3 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 19 10 4 5 35 26 10 6 1 3 20 18 9 4 3 2 15 8 9 34
4 Lausanne Sport 19 9 4 6 30 23 9 6 3 0 22 9 10 3 1 6 8 14 7 31
5 Aarau 19 7 7 5 33 34 10 4 4 2 17 15 9 3 3 3 16 19 -1 28
6 Bellinzona 19 7 2 10 24 36 10 4 0 6 15 20 9 3 2 4 9 16 -12 23
7 Thun 19 5 7 7 28 31 9 3 3 3 12 14 10 2 4 4 16 17 -3 22
8 FC Schaffhausen 19 5 5 9 20 28 9 3 2 4 7 9 10 2 3 5 13 19 -8 20
9 Vaduz 19 3 9 7 28 32 10 2 5 3 16 16 9 1 4 4 12 16 -4 18
10 Neuchatel Xamax 19 2 7 10 24 33 10 2 5 3 15 13 9 0 2 7 9 20 -9 13

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The Swiss Challenge league is the second highest level of football in Switzerland. Ten teams play four fixtures against each other to decide a final league table. The winner is promoted directly while number two enters a promotion playoff. The bottom team is relegated.