Lausanne Sport 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:
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.
Lausanne Sport form and stats
Lausanne Sport, who have the most scored goals (74) in Challenge League, have performed here at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise this season with 12 wins from 16 Challenge League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 1. It’s been three wins in a row for Lausanne here at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
No payout for Lausanne Sport in their previous match, an away game at Vaduz that ended in defeat 1-2. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Grasshopper.
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 Lausanne home games with this odds we find eleven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in five wins, five draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.
Goals decide football matches and Lausanne are scoring many of them at home; 37 on target from 16 league matches. Defensively Lausanne have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (6 in 16 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Winterthur form and stats
5 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Winterthur playing as the away team in the Challenge League this season. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Winterthur, as they have won on their previous two travels.
There were no winners in Winterthur's previous match, a Challenge League home game that ended 2-2 vs Wil (placed 6th). Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Chiasso.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Winterthur's duel with Wil. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after G. Pepsi found the equalizer.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Winterthur played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected zero times.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Winterthur have scored 20 goals in 16 league games away. Winterthur's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 25 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Lausanne and Winterthur have met before this season: Winterthur - Lausanne Sport 0-4. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Lausanne Sport wins - draws - Winterthur wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Turkes 21 goals | A. Zeqiri 15 goals |   R. Buess 12 goals |
Lausanne Sport missing players
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| Lausanne Sport | Winterthur | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 16 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 16 | 33 |
| 20 | 12 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 74 | 37 | 11 | Scored | S | 4 | 20 | 43 |
| 31 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 25 | 55 |
| 91% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 82% | 69% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 69% | 76% |
| 67% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | 58% |
| 39% | 31% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 50% | 42% |
| 21% | 25% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 19% | 18% |
| 45% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 56% | 58% |
| 48% | 69% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 31% | 24% |
| 15% | 19% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 24% |
| 6.2 | 6.2 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.6 | 4.8 |
| 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 405 | 204 | 41 | Total Shots | T S | 43 | 156 | 315 |
| 165 | 78 | 20 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 59 | 119 |
| 45% | 47% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 34% | 36% |
- Lausanne Sport has the fewest conceded goals (31)
- 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 (11) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the most clean sheets (16)
- Lausanne Sport has the most points (39) at home
- Lausanne Sport has the most scored goals (74)
- Lausanne Sport has the most scored goals in the second half (42)
- Lausanne Sport has the the best goal difference (+31) 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 | 33 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 74 | 31 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 25 | 43 | 67 |
| 2 | Grasshopper | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 61 | 37 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 59 |
| 3 | Vaduz | 33 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 70 | 49 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 42 | 25 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 24 | 21 | 58 |
| 4 | Kriens | 33 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 52 | 50 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 2 | 50 |
| 5 | Winterthur | 33 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 43 | 55 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 30 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 25 | -12 | 46 |
| 6 | Wil | 32 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 50 | 52 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 37 | -2 | 42 |
| 7 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 33 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 44 | 55 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 33 | -11 | 41 |
| 8 | Aarau | 33 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 58 | 73 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 38 | 36 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 37 | -15 | 37 |
| 9 | FC Schaffhausen | 33 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 29 | 53 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 31 | -24 | 31 |
| 10 | Chiasso | 33 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 39 | 65 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 21 | 39 | -26 | 19 |