Sion vs St. Gallen: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 25.February
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

This league season has been hard for Sion so far, while St. Gallen have enjoyed success. Will the visiting team take a new scalp at Stade de Tourbillon?

Insights:
  • Sion is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (25) in Super League

This should be an interesting game with lots of action and energy as both participants are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!

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Sion form and stats

Sion's results here at Stade de Tourbillon in the Super League have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Stade de Tourbillon, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Luzern game.

The Sion coach Celestini and his crew return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Winterthur (placed 10th). Sio was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Winterthur after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Balotelli, an attacker, was the best performer for the team in that match, receiving a rating of 7.63 (out of 10). Balotelli hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-3 away at Basel.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Swiss Cup game versus Lugano in only four days. This game is also played here at Stade de Tourbillon.

Sion has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Sion have conceded 21 goals in these home games, a significant number. It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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St. Gallen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for St. Gallen so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-7 (win-draw-lose). St. Gallen has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Gallen delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Luzern (placed 5th) in their previous fixture.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Young Boys wasn't a success with a 1-5 loss.

Betting fact: Both teams have scored goal(s) in 15 of this club's last 18 league games.

A quick return to home after this game, as St. Gallen are hosting Basel in the Swiss Cup only four days away.

The travelling fans enjoy St. Gallen's attacking play in away games, having scored 19 goals in 10 league matches away. For St. Gallen, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The duelists have played earlier this season: Sion - St. Gallen 2-7. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sion four wins, three draws and St. Gallen three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. GallenL. Görtler
L. Görtler
7 goals
St. GallenJ. Guillemenot
J. Guillemenot
7 goals
St. GallenE. Latte Lath
E. Latte Lath
6 goals

Sion missing players

St. Gallen missing players

Sion St. Gallen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 3 10 21
5 2 0 Won W 0 2 8
7 2 1 Drew D 0 1 5
9 6 1 Lost L 3 7 8
28 11 0 Scored S 2 19 40
38 21 3 Conceded C 5 23 33
90% 90% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
76% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 70% 86%
57% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 70% 62%
38% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 60% 38%
19% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 60% 33%
57% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 70% 71%
19% 20% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
33% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 67% 30% 14%
 
4.6 5.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 5.5 5.6
6.3 5.1 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.3 4.9
3 3.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.9 2.4
3 1 0 Red cards R C 2 3 6
 
12 12.8 15 Shots (avg) S ( 12.7 14.6 15.8
4.8 5.3 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 5.3 6.1
28% 21% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 36% 31%
 
12.1 10.8 10 Shots against (avg) S A 6 10.9 11.9
4.7 4.7 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 5.1 5.5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sion have the fewest points (8) at home in Super League
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (21) at home in Super League
  • Sion have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Super League
  • Sion is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • 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 have the most conceded goals (23) away in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (25) in Super League
  • St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 21 13 7 1 49 14 11 8 3 0 31 7 10 5 4 1 18 7 35 46
2 Servette 21 8 9 4 27 27 10 5 5 0 15 9 11 3 4 4 12 18 0 33
3 St. Gallen 21 8 5 8 40 33 11 6 4 1 21 10 10 2 1 7 19 23 7 29
4 Lugano 21 8 5 8 32 32 10 4 2 4 15 15 11 4 3 4 17 17 0 29
5 Luzern 21 6 9 6 33 32 10 2 5 3 14 15 11 4 4 3 19 17 1 27
6 Basel 21 6 8 7 29 25 11 4 5 2 19 13 10 2 3 5 10 12 4 26
7 Grasshopper 21 6 6 9 33 37 11 5 2 4 20 18 10 1 4 5 13 19 -4 24
8 Zurich 21 5 8 8 20 31 10 2 4 4 10 15 11 3 4 4 10 16 -11 23
9 Sion 21 5 7 9 28 38 10 2 2 6 11 21 11 3 5 3 17 17 -10 22
10 Winterthur 21 5 6 10 18 40 11 4 3 4 10 20 10 1 3 6 8 20 -22 21

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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.