The Lausanne Sport & Grasshopper managers G. Contini and G. Djuricin are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Challenge League league table.
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.
The season is still full of potential for Lausanne as they can still win the whole Challenge League.
Lausanne Sport form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise as Lausanne Sport, who have the most scored goals (72) in Challenge League, have scored 36 goals to get 36 points from 15 games. The overall stats in the Challenge League are 11-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Hopes of three in a row are alive for Lausanne after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Lausanne, as their goalkeeper Mory Diaw has completely shut out the opponents for 231 minutes in the Challenge League.
Happy days for Lausanne Sport in their previous game, a Challenge League match away at Kriens (placed 4th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Before that, Lausanne Sport had a home game versus FC Schaffhausen which ended with a victory 1-0.
The manager G. Contini will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Vaduz in only four days.
Lausanne Sport can score goals in their home matches. After 15 league matches they have found the net 36 times. As for guarding their own goal, Lausanne Sport have only let in 6 goals at home.
Grasshopper form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Challenge League travels is 7 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats. Grasshopper have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.
Impressive finishing from R. Schneider and Mychell Chagas secured the home win 2-1 against Chiasso in their previous game. Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy.
Mychell Chagas came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Chiasso last time out, making the manager G. Djuricin feel like a tactical genius.
A new game in only four days for Grasshopper, the Challenge League home match versus FC Schaffhausen. Busy days.
The travelling fans enjoy Grasshopper's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 14 league matches away. As opposed to that, Grasshopper have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Grasshopper - Lausanne 3-1 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lausanne two wins, four draws and Grasshopper four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Turkes 20 goals | A. Zeqiri 15 goals |   N. Ben Khalifa 11 goals |
Lausanne Sport missing players
Grasshopper missing players
| Lausanne Sport | Grasshopper | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 14 | 30 |
| 19 | 11 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 72 | 36 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 21 | 56 |
| 29 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 33 |
| 90% | 87% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 84% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 79% | 80% |
| 68% | 53% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 63% |
| 42% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 21% | 33% |
| 23% | 27% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 20% |
| 45% | 27% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 63% |
| 48% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 30% |
| 16% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 6.2 | 6.3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.1 | 2.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 387 | 199 | 29 | Total Shots | T S | 31 | 173 | 325 |
| 159 | 75 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 14 | 80 | 144 |
| 45% | 48% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 26% | 39% |
- Grasshopper has the fewest conceded goals (16) away
- Grasshopper has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (17)
- Grasshopper have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Grasshopper haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Grasshopper is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Lausanne Sport has the fewest conceded goals (29)
- Lausanne Sport has the fewest conceded goals (6) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7)
- Lausanne Sport has the most clean sheets (10) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the most clean sheets (15)
- Lausanne Sport has the most points (36) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the most scored goals (72)
- Lausanne Sport has the most scored goals in the second half (40)
- Lausanne Sport has the the best goal difference (+30) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the the best goal difference (+43)
- Lausanne Sport have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| 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 | 31 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 72 | 29 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 23 | 43 | 64 |
| 2 | Grasshopper | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 56 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 23 | 56 |
| 3 | Vaduz | 31 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 66 | 47 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 52 |
| 4 | Kriens | 31 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 52 | 48 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 4 | 49 |
| 5 | Winterthur | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 53 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 28 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 25 | -13 | 42 |
| 6 | Wil | 29 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 45 | 47 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 34 | -2 | 38 |
| 7 | Aarau | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 55 | 68 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 31 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 37 | -13 | 36 |
| 8 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 38 | 52 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 32 | -14 | 35 |
| 9 | FC Schaffhausen | 31 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 26 | 48 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 26 | -22 | 30 |
| 10 | Chiasso | 31 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 37 | 62 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 25 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 19 | 37 | -25 | 18 |