Kriens fights Winterthur in Challenge League battle

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Date: Sat 25.January
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kleinfeld (3200 seats)

Kriens have performed better than Winterthur so far this season, but every game starts at 0-0. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming game:

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Kriens form and stats

Overall Challenge League stats at home this season for Kriens are 5-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).

A good away victory last time out for Kriens, who won 2-1 against Vaduz (placed 5th). Previous to that game, a home match hosting Wil in a game that was won 2-1.

A decent goal production from Kriens in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 9 league matches. Kriens have conceded 12 in these home matches.

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Winterthur form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Challenge League travels is 3 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Winterthur, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Wil (placed 4th). The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy.

Winterthur lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.

Winterthur have scored 12 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Winterthur have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Winterthur - Kriens 0-2 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 5 Kriens victories, 2 draws and 3 Winterthur wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

KriensA. Abubakar-Ankra
A. Abubakar-Ankra
8 goals
WinterthurL. Sliskovic
L. Sliskovic
8 goals
WinterthurR. Buess
R. Buess
5 goals

Kriens missing players

Winterthur missing players

Kriens Winterthur
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 2 9 18
9 5 2 Won W 0 3 6
1 1 0 Drew D 2 4 6
8 3 0 Lost L 0 2 6
26 17 3 Scored S 2 12 21
27 12 1 Conceded C 2 13 30
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 89% 94%
89% 89% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 83%
61% 78% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 56% 56%
28% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 44% 33%
17% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 11%
50% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 56%
33% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 22%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 22% 28%
 
5.6 6 5 Corners For (avg) C F 3.5 3.8 3.9
4.5 4.2 2.5 Corners Against (avg) C A 9 6 5.2
1.5 1.7 1.5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.3
1 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
198 108 22 Total Shots T S 23 96 183
82 48 12 Shots on Target S O 7 35 72
32% 35% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 34% 29%
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Kriens has the fewest points from losing position (1)
  • Kriens have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kriens have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Kriens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Winterthur has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lausanne Sport 18 12 3 3 50 18 9 7 1 1 29 4 9 5 2 2 21 14 32 39
2 Grasshopper 18 9 6 3 28 19 9 4 3 2 16 11 9 5 3 1 12 8 9 33
3 Kriens 18 9 1 8 26 27 9 5 1 3 17 12 9 4 0 5 9 15 -1 28
4 Wil 18 8 3 7 32 27 9 5 2 2 19 9 9 3 1 5 13 18 5 27
5 Vaduz 18 7 5 6 38 31 9 5 1 3 22 15 9 2 4 3 16 16 7 26
6 Winterthur 18 6 6 6 21 30 9 3 2 4 9 17 9 3 4 2 12 13 -9 24
7 Aarau 18 5 7 6 29 35 9 3 4 2 18 15 9 2 3 4 11 20 -6 22
8 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 18 6 3 9 23 31 9 4 1 4 14 12 9 2 2 5 9 19 -8 21
9 FC Schaffhausen 18 3 7 8 15 31 9 1 5 3 8 13 9 2 2 5 7 18 -16 16
10 Chiasso 18 3 3 12 23 36 9 2 2 5 11 14 9 1 1 7 12 22 -13 12

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.