Game preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Aarau welcome Kriens

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Sun 03.October
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Brügglifeld (8000 seats)

Welcome to Stadion Brügglifeld and the game starring Aarau & Kriens in the Challenge League. Here's all you must know!

Insights:
  • Aarau have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the fewest scored goals (5) in Challenge League

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.

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Aarau form and stats

When playing at home in the Challenge League, Aarau have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 4 games.

The Aarau goalkeeper Simon Enzler is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 220 minutes without conceding a goal in the Challenge League.

The home team returns to Stadion Brügglifeld after being equal after 90 minutes with Winterthur (placed 2nd) on their last time out; the Challenge League game ended 0-0.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Wil in a game that was won 2-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Aarau home games with this odds we find four games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, one draw and one defeat. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.

Aarau are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (10 goals in 4 games). 5 goals have been conceded.

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Kriens form and stats

Playing away, Kriens have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Challenge League this season. Kriens are generally in trouble as the list of consecutive losses is growing into an ugly monster. Regardless of home/away, the visitors have now lost seven in a row. It's been 9 weeks since they last avoided defeat. (The FC Schaffhausen game.)

Kriens are looking to quickly end their 180 minutes long goal drought in the Challenge League.

Kriens lost away at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy (0-5) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Yverdon Sport.

You'll want to know how Kriens managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and three home wins.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Kriens's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 4 matches. Kriens can't defend away. 14 goals have been scored by the opposition in 4 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Statistics for the last ten meetings between these two contenders are: five wins for Aarau, four draws and one win for Kriens. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

AarauK. Spadanuda
K. Spadanuda
5 goals
AarauS. Gashi
S. Gashi
3 goals
AarauD. Rrudhani
D. Rrudhani
2 goals

Aarau missing players

Kriens missing players

Aarau Kriens
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 1 4 8
4 3 2 Won W 0 0 0
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 1 0 Lost L 1 3 7
15 10 4 Scored S 0 2 5
11 5 0 Conceded C 4 14 24
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
88% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 62%
38% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 75% 62%
25% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 38%
62% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 50%
38% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 50%
 
5.8 7.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.5 4
5.9 6.5 7.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.8 4.9
3 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.6 10.5 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6 7.5 7.1
4.2 4.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.8 3.1
44% 59% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 13% 20%
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Aarau have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Aarau have scored more than double the goals of Kriens.
  • Aarau have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Challenge League
  • Aarau have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Challenge League
  • Aarau have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Aarau haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Aarau's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Kriens's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kriens have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kriens have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Kriens have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kriens have the fewest scored goals (5) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the most conceded goals (14) away in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the most conceded goals (24) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the most conceded goals in the second half (13) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Challenge League
  • Kriens have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Challenge League
  • Kriens have yet to win a game.
  • Kriens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kriens is in the worst form (0-0-6)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Neuchatel Xamax 8 5 1 2 20 10 4 4 0 0 14 3 4 1 1 2 6 7 10 16
2 Winterthur 8 4 3 1 13 8 4 3 1 0 8 2 4 1 2 1 5 6 5 15
3 Aarau 8 4 2 2 15 11 4 3 0 1 10 5 4 1 2 1 5 6 4 14
4 Vaduz 8 4 1 3 14 10 3 2 0 1 7 3 5 2 1 2 7 7 4 13
5 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 8 4 1 3 15 12 4 3 1 0 9 2 4 1 0 3 6 10 3 13
6 Thun 8 4 1 3 14 12 4 3 0 1 8 4 4 1 1 2 6 8 2 13
7 Wil 8 3 1 4 12 13 4 2 1 1 9 5 4 1 0 3 3 8 -1 10
8 FC Schaffhausen 8 2 3 3 10 13 5 2 3 0 9 7 3 0 0 3 1 6 -3 9
9 Yverdon Sport 8 2 2 4 10 15 4 1 2 1 5 5 4 1 0 3 5 10 -5 8
10 Kriens 8 0 1 7 5 24 4 0 0 4 3 10 4 0 1 3 2 14 -19 1

Read more about Challenge League

The Swiss Challenge league is the second highest level of football in Switzerland. Ten teams play four fixtures against each other to decide a final league table. The winner is promoted directly while number two enters a promotion playoff. The bottom team is relegated.