Super League preview with statistics: Grasshopper welcomes Young Boys to Stadion Letzigrund

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 21.January
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Letzigrund (26104 seats)

Both Grasshopper and Young Boys are longing for points in this game, in spite of the away team having a 15 point lead from earlier matches.

Insights:
  • Grasshopper have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (35) in Super League

16-12-12 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Young Boys when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 40 matches are 74-48 (scored/conceded).

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Grasshopper form and stats

Grasshopper have played 8 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). When Grasshopper hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Servette and St. Gallen), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

Grasshopper's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Basel (placed 5th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Goalkeeper Hammel got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.42 out of ten. Hammel topped it up with a clean sheet.

Ahead of that match, Grasshopper won a home game hosting Basel (1-0).

Take note: 13 of the latest 16 league matches from this club have had at least one goal from each team.

Grasshopper can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 17 times. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded. When Grasshopper hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Winterthur, Zurich and Sion), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Young Boys form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.

The Young Boys goalkeeper Anthony Racioppi is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 218 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Young Boys won their last game, 3-0 versus Luzern played at home. Fassnacht got a match rating of 9.11 in that game, top player of the team. Fassnacht scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 27 successful passes (of 33 total).

Before that, Young Boys secured a home win against Luzern with the score 3-0.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this club's 12 latest league rounds have ended with at least three goals.

Young Boys are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 8 away games so far. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).

Head 2 Head

Young Boys have won or drawn the last 13 fixtures (8-5-0) against Grasshopper.

The two sides encountered each other earlier on this campaign: Young Boys - Grasshopper 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
9 goals
GrasshopperH. Kawabe
H. Kawabe
6 goals
Young BoysC. Itten
C. Itten
6 goals

Grasshopper missing players

Young Boys missing players

Grasshopper Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 3 8 16
5 4 1 Won W 2 4 10
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 1
28 17 5 Scored S 8 15 35
30 14 5 Conceded C 1 5 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 62% 81%
88% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 62% 81%
69% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 69%
50% 50% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 25%
31% 38% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 25% 12%
81% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 50%
12% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 50%
6% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 38% 19%
 
4.7 4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 8 6.1 5.6
8 8.1 8 Corners against (avg) C A 1.7 3.6 3.5
2.5 1.8 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.2 2.1
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
10.2 10.9 9.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 10.9 12.4
5 6.1 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.7 5.2 5.5
35% 35% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 47% 36% 40%
 
15.9 17.5 15.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.3 11.1 9.6
6.2 6.5 8.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 5 4.1
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Grasshopper have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won 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 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (4) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (8) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most points (15) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (35) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+10) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+26) in Super League
  • Young Boys is in the best form (3-3-0) in Super 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 Young Boys 16 10 5 1 35 9 8 6 2 0 20 4 8 4 3 1 15 5 26 35
2 Servette 16 6 7 3 19 18 8 4 4 0 11 6 8 2 3 3 8 12 1 25
3 St. Gallen 16 7 3 6 33 24 8 5 2 1 15 7 8 2 1 5 18 17 9 24
4 Lugano 16 7 2 7 26 26 8 4 0 4 13 13 8 3 2 3 13 13 0 23
5 Basel 16 5 6 5 21 17 8 3 4 1 12 7 8 2 2 4 9 10 4 21
6 Luzern 16 5 5 6 24 24 8 2 3 3 11 12 8 3 2 3 13 12 0 20
7 Grasshopper 16 5 5 6 28 30 8 4 2 2 17 14 8 1 3 4 11 16 -2 20
8 Sion 16 5 5 6 22 28 8 2 2 4 9 17 8 3 3 2 13 11 -6 20
9 Winterthur 16 4 4 8 13 31 8 3 2 3 7 17 8 1 2 5 6 14 -18 16
10 Zurich 16 2 6 8 13 27 8 1 3 4 8 14 8 1 3 4 5 13 -14 12

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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.