Both Grasshopper and Basel are yearning for points in this fixture, despite the away team carrying a 4 point lead from earlier matches.
- Grasshopper have the most conceded goals (30) in Super League
- Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
The visiting Basel played their last game only three days ago, a Super League match. That game, against Luzern, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Basel.
Grasshopper form and stats
The story so far in the Super League for Grasshopper at their home stadium (Stadion Letzigrund) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Grasshopper are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Stadion Letzigrund, having lost their two previous games here.
Grasshopper are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus St. Gallen. Herc has beaten the opponent goalkeeper in three games in a row. Impressive! Midfield player Schmid got a match rating of 7.23 in that game, the max score being 10. Schmid hit one key pass.
Before that game, the home loss against Luzern with the scoreline 1-3.If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 15 most recent league matches shows that 13 of them had at least one goal from each side.
The Grasshopper manager Contini has got the team scoring with 16 from 7 home games in the league.
Basel form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Basel goalkeeper Marwin Hitz is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Two away games in a row for Basel, whose coach Frei could celebrate last time after the win against Luzern. Basel goalie Hitz was high and low in the Luzern game, contributing six saves towards the victory. Goalkeeper Hitz got the top player rating of the team with 8.0/10. Hitz topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Sion.The visiting Basel have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 9 goals from 7 games. Basel have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Basel have put together a sequence of 17 consecutive matches without defeat (13-4-0) when playing Grasshopper.The two teams involved met each other previously this campaign: Basel - Grasshopper 5-1. The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being hot-tempered, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Kawabe 6 goals |  B. Fink 4 goals | C. Herc 3 goals |
Grasshopper missing players
Basel missing players
| Grasshopper | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 27 | 16 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 21 |
| 30 | 14 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 9 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 73% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 71% | 67% |
| 73% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 40% |
| 53% | 57% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 29% | 33% |
| 33% | 43% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 14% | 20% |
| 87% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 57% | 53% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 40% |
| 4.9 | 4.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.3 | 5.5 |
| 7.1 | 6.3 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 6.7 | 4.8 |
| 2.4 | 1.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.3 | 11 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.7 | 7.3 | 11 |
| 4.9 | 6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.7 |
| 37% | 38% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 33% | 30% |
| 14.7 | 15.1 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.3 | 10.7 | 9.5 |
| 5.9 | 5.9 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
- All of Grasshopper's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Basel have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Grasshopper have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Grasshopper have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Grasshopper have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the most conceded goals (30) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the most points from losing position (7) in Super League
- Grasshopper haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Grasshopper is in the worst form (1-1-4)
| 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 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 23 | 32 |
| 2 | Servette | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 25 |
| 3 | Basel | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 21 |
| 4 | St. Gallen | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | Luzern | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 20 |
| 6 | Sion | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | -1 | 20 |
| 7 | Lugano | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 13 | -2 | 20 |
| 8 | Grasshopper | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -3 | 17 |
| 9 | Winterthur | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -16 | 16 |
| 10 | Zurich | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -17 | 9 |
