The visiting St. Gallen side should be favourites in this visit to Neuchâtel Xamax, as the away team holds a 29 point advantage from their 26 league games this season.
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.
St. Gallen play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for St. Gallen when playing on artifical turf are 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats from ten matches. They have scored 14 goals and conceded 16 times in these games.
Neuchâtel Xamax form and stats
Neuchâtel Xamax's results here at Stade de la Maladière in the Super League have been very modest with 2 victories, 3 draws and 8 defeats.
Neuchâtel Xamax are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-6 away versus Young Boys. Preceding that match was the home game against Basel that was lost 1-2.
Neuchâtel Xamax were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
There will be little rest for Neuchâtel after this match as they are travelling to Basel for a Super League game in only three days.
Neuchâtel are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 13 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 21 goals have been conceded.
St. Gallen form and stats
St. Gallen's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed St. Gallen, who have the most scored goals (56) in Super League, collect 25 points from their 12 away matches in the Super League. 8 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 3 defeats).
Impressive finishing from Cédric Itten, Jordi Quintillà and Silvan Hefti secured the home win 3-2 against Thun in their previous game. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-4 defeat against Zürich.
A new game in only four days for St. Gallen, the Super League home match versus Sion. Busy days.
St. Gallen have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 26 goals from 12 away matches. As opposed to that, Gallen have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; St. Gallen - Neuchâtel 4-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Neuchâtel won two games, two matches ended with a draw and St. Gallen has six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  C. Itten 12 goals |  J. Quintillà Guasch 10 goals | E. Demirović 10 goals |
Neuchâtel Xamax missing players
St. Gallen missing players
| Neuchâtel Xamax | St. Gallen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 26 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 28 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 11 | 26 | 56 |
| 47 | 21 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 38 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 81% | 77% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 88% |
| 54% | 54% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 81% |
| 35% | 23% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 54% |
| 15% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 25% | 31% |
| 69% | 62% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 92% | 73% |
| 8% | 8% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 23% | 31% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | 15% |
| 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.6 |
| 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4 | 3.5 |
| 2.8 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 290 | 165 | 30 | Total Shots | T S | 53 | 173 | 386 |
| 100 | 53 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 26 | 77 | 157 |
| 28% | 25% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 34% | 36% |
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest clean sheets (2)
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest points (9) at home
- Neuchâtel Xamax haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Gallen has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- St. Gallen has the fewest matches under the total-line (6)
- St. Gallen has the most matches over the total-line (17)
- St. Gallen has the most points (25) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals (26) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals (56)
- St. Gallen has the the best goal difference (+10) away
- St. Gallen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Gallen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 55 | 34 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 51 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 26 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 56 | 38 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 51 |
| 3 | Basel | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 53 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 26 | 46 |
| 4 | Servette | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 42 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 40 |
| 5 | Zürich | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 48 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 28 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 38 |
| 6 | Luzern | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 35 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -6 | 35 |
| 7 | Lugano | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 18 | -2 | 30 |
| 8 | Sion | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 30 | 46 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 23 | -16 | 24 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 26 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 47 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 26 | -19 | 22 |
| 10 | Thun | 26 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 27 | 51 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 26 | -24 | 22 |