It's game one of two in the Europa League as Linfield host Zürich. This is a 3rd Qualifying Round fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
These teams have little in common geographically as Zürich have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Linfield form and stats
Linfield participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the 2nd qualifying round.The club members hope that Linfield will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-8 away defeat in the Champions League fixture against Bodø / Glimt.
Zürich form and stats
No Super League points yet away for Zürich, from their first 2 matches.
Zürich are travelling again after losing away to St. Gallen in their previous match (0-2). Hitting the posts three times in the St. Gallen game proved expensive as Zürich lost 0-2. Krasniqi got a match rating of 7.43 in that game, top player of the team. Krasniqi hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).
A quick return to home after this game, as Zürich are hosting Sion in the Super League only three days away.
It's early days yet, but Zürich has scored 0 and conceded 6 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Linfield missing players
Zürich missing players
| Linfield | Zürich | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 42 | 20 | Scored | S | 26 | 58 | ||
| 26 | 6 | Conceded | C | 19 | 36 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 48% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 68% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 20% | ||
| 5.7 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.6 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 5.5 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.9 | 9.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 12.2 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.8 | ||
| 41% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 36% | ||
| 8.8 | 8.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 11.8 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Servette | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Sion | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 5 | Grasshopper | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Basel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Luzern | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Winterthur | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 9 | Zürich | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 1 |
| 10 | Lugano | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
