It's Champions League time and the hopeful contenders are Young Boys and Ferencváros

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Wed 18.August
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

Young Boys and Ferencváros will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Champions League Play-offs battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!

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.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Ferencváros have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 0-1-0 (win-draw-loss) from one match.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Ferencváros, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.

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Young Boys form and stats

Young have reached this Champions League stage through battling and winning against CFR Cluj and Slovan Bratislava. Last season, Young's Champions League journey ended in the 3rd qualifying round.

0 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what Young Boys have to build on here at Stadion Wankdorf in the Super League. This match is a Champions League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses in this competition. In general it's been a long time since Young tasted defeat here at Stadion Wankdorf, as they have taken at least one point from their last 13 home games in the league.

Stress levels are on the rise for Young Boys's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. T. Siebatcheu was their last goal scorer.

A good away victory last time out for Young, who won 4-1 against Littau.

Ahead of that match, Young won a home game hosting CFR Cluj (3-1).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Young as they have a new game in only three days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Lugano are visiting.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Young Boys at home in the league. 0 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Ferencváros form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Prishtina, Zalgiris and Slavia Praha in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. Ferencváros was sent out of Champions League in the group stage last season.

When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 5W-0D-1L. This is both home and away. Ferencváros are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played 17 in a row without losing.

Myrto Uzuni, Róbert Mak and Franck Boli (2) scored in Ferencváros's previous match, the home game against Mezokovesd-Zsory that ended 4-1.

A 0-1 defeat away at Slavia Praha before that.

Ferencváros have another game away from home in just four nights, a NB 1 fixture versus Puskas. A gruelling itinerary for the guests!

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysM. Elia
M. Elia
2 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
2 goals
FerencvárosF. Boli
F. Boli
2 goals

Young Boys missing players

Ferencváros missing players

Young Boys Ferencváros
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 14   Played P   11 25
16 10   Won W   6 17
4 2   Drew D   4 5
5 2   Lost L   1 3
54 32   Scored S   22 51
27 12   Conceded C   12 21
92% 93%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   91% 96%
84% 86%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 80%
60% 57%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   82% 64%
40% 43%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   55% 32%
28% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 8%
52% 43%   BTTS BTTS   73% 56%
36% 43%   Clean Sheets C S   18% 40%
20% 21%   Failed to Score F T   18% 8%
 
6 5.8   Corners for (avg) C F   5.1 6.1
3.3 3.2   Corners against (avg) C A   4.5 4.2
1.9 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2.1
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
12.7 13.3   Shots (avg) S (   8.5 9
4.3 4.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4 4.5
48% 49%   Goal Efficiency G E   50% 46%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Basel 3 3 0 0 13 2 2 2 0 0 11 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 11 9
2 Zurich 3 3 0 0 8 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 2 0 0 5 1 6 9
3 Lugano 3 2 0 1 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 6
4 St. Gallen 3 1 1 1 5 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 4
5 Young Boys 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 4
6 Grasshopper 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
7 Servette 3 1 0 2 3 8 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 3 6 -5 3
8 Sion 3 1 0 2 3 8 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 6 -5 3
9 Luzern 3 0 1 2 6 9 2 0 0 2 4 7 1 0 1 0 2 2 -3 1
10 Lausanne Sport 3 0 0 3 3 8 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 2 6 -5 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Varda SE 3 3 0 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 9
2 Mezokovesd-Zsory 3 2 0 1 7 8 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 1 0 1 4 6 -1 6
3 Debrecen 3 1 2 0 9 6 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 7 4 3 5
4 Paksi SE 3 1 1 1 11 7 2 0 1 1 5 6 1 1 0 0 6 1 4 4
5 MTK 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 4
6 Ferencváros 2 1 0 1 5 3 2 1 0 1 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
7 Puskas 2 1 0 1 3 7 1 0 0 1 1 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 -4 3
8 MOL Vidi 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
9 Gyirmot 3 0 2 1 3 4 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 2
10 Ujpest 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 -1 1
11 Zalaegerszegi TE 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1
12 Honved 2 0 0 2 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 -4 0

Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.