All you need to know about the Thun - Luzern game:

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 22.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stockhorn Arena (10014 seats)

Thun hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 18 points and a 10th position in the Super League table. Visiting Luzern holds 6th place with 30 pts.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Luzern play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Luzern when playing on artifical turf are 5 wins, 1 draw and 7 defeats from 13 matches. They have scored 13 goals and conceded 18 times in these games.

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Thun form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Thun, who have the most conceded goals (45) in Super League, have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 7 losses from their games here at Stockhorn Arena. Two home wins in a row for Thun bring valid hopes of a third.

Happy days for Thun in their previous game, a Super League match away at Basel (placed 3rd) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Nobody expected Thun to beat Basel in the last match, but sometimes David beats Goliath. Before that, Thun had a home game versus Lugano which ended with a victory 3-2.

Thun goalkeeper Guillaume Faivre did an outstanding job against Basel with seven saves, so vital to securing the victory.

Thun are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 11 games. Thun have conceded 24 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Luzern form and stats

4 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses. That’s the product of Luzern playing as the away team in the Super League this season. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Thun. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Luzern are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

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. Luzern goalkeeper Marius Muller is eager to challenge this, with his 282 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Luzern won their last game, 1-0 versus St. Gallen played at home. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Neuchâtel Xamax at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Luzern goalie Marius Müller was high and low in the St. Gallen game, contributing six saves towards the victory.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Luzern as they have only managed to score 10 times from 11 away games in the league. Luzern have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Thun - Luzern 0-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Thun wins - draws - Luzern wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LuzernF. Margiotta
F. Margiotta
5 goals
LuzernI. Ndiaye
I. Ndiaye
5 goals
ThunC. Kablan
C. Kablan
4 goals

Thun missing players

Luzern missing players

Thun Luzern
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 4 11 22
5 2 0 Won W 1 4 9
3 2 0 Drew D 1 1 3
14 7 2 Lost L 2 6 10
22 11 0 Scored S 3 10 24
45 24 5 Conceded C 5 15 29
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
82% 82% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 73% 73%
59% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 36% 45%
41% 45% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 18%
23% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 9%
50% 55% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 27% 41%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 32%
41% 45% 100% Failed to Score F T 25% 45% 32%
 
3.9 4.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 6.2 4.8 5.6
6 4.5 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.4 6
2.3 2.7 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 3.1 2.8
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
280 172 44 Total Shots T S 43 112 262
84 45 10 Shots on Target S O 10 39 97
26% 24% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 26% 25%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Luzern has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2)
  • Luzern has the fewest matches over the total-line (9)
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Thun has the fewest scored goals (22)
  • Thun has the fewest scored goals in the first half (8)
  • Thun has the most conceded goals (45)
  • Thun has the most conceded goals in the second half (29)
  • Thun has the the worst goal difference (-13) at home
  • Thun has the the worst goal difference (-23)
  • Thun have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Thun have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Thun have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Thun haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 22 14 2 6 48 28 11 7 1 3 24 13 11 7 1 3 24 15 20 44
2 Young Boys 22 13 5 4 43 28 11 9 2 0 27 10 11 4 3 4 16 18 15 44
3 Basel 22 12 3 7 46 22 11 7 1 3 25 9 11 5 2 4 21 13 24 39
4 Servette 22 10 6 6 36 21 11 6 3 2 17 7 11 4 3 4 19 14 15 36
5 Zürich 22 9 4 9 27 44 11 5 1 5 18 27 11 4 3 4 9 17 -17 31
6 Luzern 22 9 3 10 24 29 11 5 2 4 14 14 11 4 1 6 10 15 -5 30
7 Lugano 22 6 7 9 24 27 11 2 5 4 6 11 11 4 2 5 18 16 -3 25
8 Sion 22 6 4 12 28 41 11 3 3 5 17 20 11 3 1 7 11 21 -13 22
9 Neuchâtel Xamax 22 3 9 10 24 37 11 1 3 7 10 18 11 2 6 3 14 19 -13 18
10 Thun 22 5 3 14 22 45 11 2 2 7 11 24 11 3 1 7 11 21 -23 18

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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.