Basel favourites for feisty fight facing Servette

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 19.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: St. Jakob-Park (37994 seats)

St. Jakob-Park: Blow the trumpet for a football frolic when Basel take on Servette. Get the latest news on the game here!

Insights:
  • Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

It's no vacation for neither Basel nor Servette as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Basel form and stats

Basel have played 10 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-4-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The fans hope that Basel will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away defeat in the Europa Conference League fixture against Trabzonspor.

Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Sion.

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 Basel have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 5 and lost 2.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Basel, as the Europa Conference League home game vs Trabzonspor is only four days away.

Basel have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at St. Jakob-Park with 17 goals in 10 league matches. 11 goals have been conceded.

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Servette form and stats

Playing away, Servette have won 3 games, drawn 3 and suffered 4 defeats in the Super League this season.

It's the second away game in a row for Servette, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Winterthur (placed 10th) last time out. The attacker Stevanović got a match rating of 8.03 in that game. Stevanović scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 32 successful passes (of 39 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Grasshopper.

Servette are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

Possible goal fest! This club have played 5 consecutive league fixtures all featuring three or more goals (over 2.5 goals).

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Servette have conceded 16 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Basel have avoided a loss in the last 7 games (3-4-0) against Servette.

The latest head-to-head encounter ended Servette - Basel 0-0, played this season. The games between these sides have had a tendency to be "violent", having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

BaselM. Amdouni
M. Amdouni
5 goals
BaselA. Zeqiri
A. Zeqiri
5 goals
BaselB. Fink
B. Fink
4 goals

Basel missing players

Servette missing players

Basel Servette
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 2 10 20
6 4 1 Won W 1 3 8
7 4 1 Drew D 0 3 8
7 2 0 Lost L 1 4 4
27 17 3 Scored S 2 10 25
23 11 2 Conceded C 1 16 25
80% 70% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 85%
65% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 80% 70%
40% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
35% 50% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
20% 30% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 15%
55% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 55%
25% 30% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 30%
40% 40% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 30%
 
6.5 6.3 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.2 5.6
4.9 3.4 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.6 4.3
2.3 2.2 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.5 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
13.3 15.3 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.4 10.9
5.6 5.9 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.8
24% 29% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 33%
 
10.4 8.8 10 Shots against (avg) S A 14 16.2 13.2
3.8 3 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 5.1 4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Young Boys 20 13 6 1 48 13 10 8 2 0 30 6 10 5 4 1 18 7 35 45
2 Servette 20 8 8 4 25 25 10 5 5 0 15 9 10 3 3 4 10 16 0 32
3 St. Gallen 20 8 4 8 38 31 10 6 3 1 19 8 10 2 1 7 19 23 7 28
4 Lugano 20 8 4 8 31 31 10 4 2 4 15 15 10 4 2 4 16 16 0 28
5 Luzern 20 6 8 6 31 30 10 2 5 3 14 15 10 4 3 3 17 15 1 26
6 Basel 20 6 7 7 27 23 10 4 4 2 17 11 10 2 3 5 10 12 4 25
7 Grasshopper 20 6 6 8 32 35 10 5 2 3 19 16 10 1 4 5 13 19 -3 24
8 Sion 20 5 6 9 27 37 10 2 2 6 11 21 10 3 4 3 16 16 -10 21
9 Zurich 20 4 8 8 18 30 10 2 4 4 10 15 10 2 4 4 8 15 -12 20
10 Winterthur 20 5 5 10 17 39 10 4 2 4 9 19 10 1 3 6 8 20 -22 20

Read more about Super League

Football is the most popular sport in Switzerland and the Swiss Super League is the top competition. It has ten teams who play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures each. The season runs from July to May with a winter break. Number one in the final league table is the champion, number ten is relegated while number nine plays a relegation playoff.