Europa League match preview: Zürich versus Bodø / Glimt

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 27.October
Match begins: 16:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Letzigrund (26104 seats)

Bodø / Glimt have traveled here for an interesting Europa League fight against Zürich. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!

8-9-7 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Bodø / Glimt when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 24 matches are 34-33 (scored/conceded).

These teams have little in common geographically as Bodø / Glimt have to travel 3000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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.

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Zürich form and stats

Zürich's results here at Stadion Letzigrund in the Super League have been very modest with 0 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. 4W-0D-4L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa League for Zürich.

The Zürich crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-4 to Grasshopper here at Stadion Letzigrund. Katić was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.35 out of 10. The defender Katić won 12 of 16 duels.

0-0 away at Basel before that.

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

Zürich aren't scoring a lot here at Stadion Letzigrund in the league, with only {4 goals} from 7 games. Zürich have conceded 13 from these games.

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Bodø / Glimt form and stats

Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the 1st qualifying round.

Bodø / Glimt's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Bodø / Glimt collect 27 points from their 13 away matches in the Eliteserien. 9 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 4 defeats). When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 1W-1D-2L. This is both home and away.

Glimt have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Nikita Haikin. It's been 225 minutes since they last conceded in Eliteserien.

Bodø / Glimt are travelling after their nice 5-0 home win in the match against Kristiansund. As mentioned above, Glimt was the only team on the pitch versus Kristiansund in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task. Espejord, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.04. Espejord scored one goal, signed up for two assists and hit five key passes.

Preceding that game was the away Eliteserien victory against Vålerenga with the score of 6-0.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Bodø / Glimt manager Knutsen as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Rosenborg.

Bodø / Glimt create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 33 goals in 13 travels. 16 goals have been conceded by Glimt in these games.

Head 2 Head

The sides have played each other before in this season, with the match result Bodø / Glimt - Zürich 2-1 entered in the official records.

Top Goalscorers

Bodø / GlimtA. Pellegrino
A. Pellegrino
23 goals
Bodø / GlimtH. Vetlesen
H. Vetlesen
13 goals
Bodø / GlimtR. Espejord
R. Espejord
9 goals

Zürich missing players

Bodø / Glimt missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Zürich Bodø / Glimt
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   13 25
5 2   Won W   6 14
7 4   Drew D   2 4
13 6   Lost L   5 7
29 13   Scored S   26 67
47 23   Conceded C   19 29
84% 75%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
80% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   92% 88%
64% 75%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   62% 68%
40% 33%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   46% 56%
28% 25%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   38% 48%
52% 58%   BTTS BTTS   62% 52%
32% 33%   Clean Sheets C S   23% 36%
32% 33%   Failed to Score F T   15% 12%
 
3.9 4.1   Corners for (avg) C F   3.8 5.1
5.3 4.9   Corners against (avg) C A   4.2 3.5
2.6 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.1
4 1   Red cards R C   0 0
 
10.9 10.5   Shots (avg) S (   14.8 16.9
3.8 3.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.2 5.8
30% 32%   Goal Efficiency G E   38% 47%
 
11.3 9.7   Shots against (avg) S A   12.2 9.9
4.7 4.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.1 3.2

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arsenal 4 4 0 0 7 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 6 12
2 PSV 4 2 1 1 11 3 2 1 1 0 6 1 2 1 0 1 5 2 8 7
3 Bodø / Glimt 4 1 1 2 3 6 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 4 -3 4
4 Zürich 4 0 0 4 3 14 2 0 0 2 2 7 2 0 0 2 1 7 -11 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 Young Boys 13 8 4 1 29 8 6 4 2 0 14 3 7 4 2 1 15 5 21 28
2 Servette 13 6 5 2 16 12 6 4 2 0 9 4 7 2 3 2 7 8 4 23
3 Sion 13 5 4 4 20 20 6 2 2 2 7 9 7 3 2 2 13 11 0 19
4 St. Gallen 13 5 3 5 24 20 7 4 2 1 13 6 6 1 1 4 11 14 4 18
5 Basel 12 4 5 3 18 13 7 3 3 1 12 7 5 1 2 2 6 6 5 17
6 Grasshopper 13 4 5 4 25 25 6 3 2 1 15 11 7 1 3 3 10 14 0 17
7 Luzern 12 4 4 4 20 17 6 2 2 2 10 9 6 2 2 2 10 8 3 16
8 Lugano 13 5 1 7 19 23 6 2 0 4 8 12 7 3 1 3 11 11 -4 16
9 Winterthur 13 3 3 7 10 27 7 2 2 3 6 17 6 1 1 4 4 10 -17 12
10 Zürich 13 0 6 7 8 24 7 0 3 4 4 13 6 0 3 3 4 11 -16 6
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Molde 27 22 3 2 63 22 14 11 1 2 37 12 13 11 2 0 26 10 41 69
2 Bodø / Glimt 27 16 6 5 75 32 14 7 6 1 42 16 13 9 0 4 33 16 43 54
3 Rosenborg 27 14 8 5 60 37 13 11 2 0 33 10 14 3 6 5 27 27 23 50
4 Lillestrøm 27 15 5 7 45 29 13 8 2 3 21 10 14 7 3 4 24 19 16 50
5 Vålerenga 27 13 3 11 47 43 13 9 1 3 27 16 14 4 2 8 20 27 4 42
6 Tromsø 27 9 11 7 40 44 13 8 3 2 25 19 14 1 8 5 15 25 -4 38
7 Odd 27 11 5 11 35 43 14 7 1 6 21 21 13 4 4 5 14 22 -8 38
8 Sarpsborg 08 27 11 3 13 49 47 14 6 2 6 25 22 13 5 1 7 24 25 2 36
9 Aalesund 27 9 8 10 28 38 14 5 5 4 15 16 13 4 3 6 13 22 -10 35
10 Viking 27 9 7 11 42 44 13 5 4 4 19 14 14 4 3 7 23 30 -2 34
11 Strømsgodset 27 9 6 12 40 44 13 7 2 4 29 19 14 2 4 8 11 25 -4 33
12 Haugesund 27 9 6 12 37 42 14 6 3 5 23 21 13 3 3 7 14 21 -5 33
13 HamKam 27 5 13 9 29 37 14 4 6 4 16 15 13 1 7 5 13 22 -8 28
14 Sandefjord 27 6 5 16 38 62 13 1 5 7 20 31 14 5 0 9 18 31 -24 23
15 Kristiansund 27 4 6 17 30 57 13 3 4 6 22 28 14 1 2 11 8 29 -27 18
16 Jerv 27 5 3 19 25 62 14 4 2 8 13 25 13 1 1 11 12 37 -37 18

Bodø / Glimt:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arsenal 4 4 0 0 7 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 6 12
2 PSV 4 2 1 1 11 3 2 1 1 0 6 1 2 1 0 1 5 2 8 7
3 Bodø / Glimt 4 1 1 2 3 6 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 4 -3 4
4 Zürich 4 0 0 4 3 14 2 0 0 2 2 7 2 0 0 2 1 7 -11 0

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The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.