Challenge League match prediction: Little separates Wil and FC Schaffhausen in quality

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Fri 24.September
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: IGP Arena (6010 seats)

This match features two contenders living in the cellar of the Challenge League, Wil having 8th position and FC Schaffhausen lying 7th. A good opportunity for one of the contenders to upgrade their position.

Insights:
  • All of Wil's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • FC Schaffhausen have the most points from losing position (7) in Challenge League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting FC Schaffhausen have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 10-12-16 (win-draw-loss) from 38 matches.

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Wil form and stats

When playing at home in the Challenge League, Wil have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 3 games.

The fans are hoping that Wil will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Challenge League game against Aarau (placed 4th).

Heartbreak before that as Wil lost 0-3 at Yverdon Sport's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Wil perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Wil as a small favourite), we find ten games. Wil has won seven of these, drawn zero and lost three.

Wil can score goals in their home matches. After 3 league matches they have found the net 7 times. Wil have conceded 5 from these games.

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FC Schaffhausen form and stats

No Challenge League points yet away for FC Schaffhausen, from their first 2 matches. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Schaffhausen are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Schaffhausen are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Challenge League against Thun (placed 5th). World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager A. Shakiri when I. Prtajin scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 64th minute.

Before that one, a nice away victory 11-0 at Bosporus.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Schaffhausen playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were four FC Schaffhausen wins, one draw and two defeats.

It's early days yet, but FC Schaffhausen has scored 1 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - five - four (Wil wins - draws - FC Schaffhausen wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

WilS. Bahloul
S. Bahloul
3 goals
FC SchaffhausenI. Prtajin
I. Prtajin
3 goals
FC SchaffhausenD. Del Toro
D. Del Toro
2 goals

Wil missing players

FC Schaffhausen missing players

Wil FC Schaffhausen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 0 2 7
2 1 1 Won W 0 0 2
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 3
4 1 0 Lost L 0 2 2
10 7 3 Scored S 0 1 10
13 5 0 Conceded C 0 4 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
71% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 43%
43% 67% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 14%
14% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
43% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 86%
29% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
29% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 14%
 
4.7 4 7 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 4
7.4 9.3 6 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 4.1
2.3 2.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.5 2.4
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.3 6.3 7 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9.5 12.3
2.3 2.7 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.5 6.3
62% 88% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 11% 23%
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • All of FC Schaffhausen's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Wil's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • FC Schaffhausen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • FC Schaffhausen have lost all their away matches so far.
  • FC Schaffhausen have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Challenge League
  • FC Schaffhausen have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Challenge League
  • FC Schaffhausen have the most matches under the total-line (4) in Challenge League
  • FC Schaffhausen have the most points from losing position (7) in Challenge League
  • FC Schaffhausen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Wil have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Wil haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Winterthur 7 4 2 1 13 8 3 3 0 0 8 2 4 1 2 1 5 6 5 14
2 Neuchatel Xamax 6 4 1 1 15 6 3 3 0 0 11 2 3 1 1 1 4 4 9 13
3 Vaduz 7 4 1 2 14 8 3 2 0 1 7 3 4 2 1 1 7 5 6 13
4 Aarau 7 4 1 2 15 11 4 3 0 1 10 5 3 1 1 1 5 6 4 13
5 Thun 7 3 1 3 11 10 3 2 0 1 5 2 4 1 1 2 6 8 1 10
6 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 6 3 1 2 9 9 3 2 1 0 4 2 3 1 0 2 5 7 0 10
7 FC Schaffhausen 7 2 3 2 10 11 5 2 3 0 9 7 2 0 0 2 1 4 -1 9
8 Wil 7 2 1 4 10 13 3 1 1 1 7 5 4 1 0 3 3 8 -3 7
9 Yverdon Sport 6 0 2 4 6 15 3 0 2 1 3 5 3 0 0 3 3 10 -9 2
10 Kriens 6 0 1 5 5 17 3 0 0 3 3 8 3 0 1 2 2 9 -12 1

Read more about Challenge League

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.