Super League preview: Can Servette edge out victory against Lugano?

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 21.June
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Genève (28833 seats)

With their 11 point advantage in the league table, Servette fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Lugano.

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Servette form and stats

6-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Servette, who have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Super League, so far this season. Ever since the St. Gallen game Servette has been unbeatable here at Stade de Genève producing five straight wins.

Servette shared the glory with Basel in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Ahead of that match, Servette won a home game hosting Zürich (4-1).

There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Basel as Miroslav Stevanović's goal in the 87th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Servette handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and one defeat.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Servette as they are travelling to their away game against Sion in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.

A decent goal production from Servette in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. From these home matches, Servette have conceded only 7 goals.

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Lugano form and stats

The visitors are W4-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Super League. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Lugano have lost on their last two travels.

Lugano delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Sion (placed 8th) in their previous match; a Super League game. Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Sion.

Lugano are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, two draws and three defeats. From a total of eight matches.

A new game in only three days for Lugano, the Super League home match versus Luzern. Busy days.

Lugano has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 18 goals from 11 games. As opposed to that, Lugano have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Servette - Lugano 1-1 entered in the official records. Servette-Lugano H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Servette two wins, Lugano five wins, three draws. one of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ServetteK. Kone
K. Kone
6 goals
ServetteV. Taşar
V. Taşar
6 goals
ServetteA. Schalk
A. Schalk
5 goals

Servette missing players

Lugano missing players

Servette Lugano
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 4 Played P 2 11 23
10 6 2 Won W 2 4 6
7 3 2 Drew D 0 2 8
6 2 0 Lost L 0 5 9
38 17 6 Scored S 6 18 24
23 7 3 Conceded C 1 16 27
91% 82% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 78%
74% 64% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 65%
57% 45% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 73% 48%
35% 18% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 36% 22%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 9%
52% 36% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 64% 48%
35% 55% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 27% 35%
22% 27% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 39%
 
4.9 5.7 7.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 5.8 5.5
5.6 5.1 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 11.5 6.1 6.1
2.5 2.1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
301 162 57 Total Shots T S 24 150 276
118 64 21 Shots on Target S O 15 64 96
32% 27% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 28% 25%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano has the fewest points from losing position (1)
  • Lugano have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Servette has the fewest conceded goals (23)
  • Servette has the fewest conceded goals (7) at home
  • Servette has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10)
  • Servette has the most clean sheets (6) at home
  • Servette have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Gallen 24 15 3 6 53 32 12 7 2 3 27 16 12 8 1 3 26 16 21 48
2 Young Boys 24 14 6 4 49 33 12 10 2 0 30 12 12 4 4 4 19 21 16 48
3 Basel 23 12 4 7 48 24 12 7 2 3 27 11 11 5 2 4 21 13 24 40
4 Servette 23 10 7 6 38 23 11 6 3 2 17 7 12 4 4 4 21 16 15 37
5 Zürich 24 9 5 10 30 48 12 5 2 5 19 28 12 4 3 5 11 20 -18 32
6 Luzern 23 9 4 10 25 30 11 5 2 4 14 14 12 4 2 6 11 16 -5 31
7 Lugano 23 6 8 9 24 27 12 2 6 4 6 11 11 4 2 5 18 16 -3 26
8 Sion 24 6 5 13 29 43 12 3 3 6 18 22 12 3 2 7 11 21 -14 23
9 Neuchatel Xamax 24 4 10 10 27 39 12 2 3 7 12 19 12 2 7 3 15 20 -12 22
10 Thun 24 5 4 15 24 48 12 2 3 7 12 25 12 3 1 8 12 23 -24 19

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.