Season ticket holders at Stade de la Maladière haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Neuchâtel Xamax languishing in the 9th position so far. The guesting Aarau will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Challenge League
- Aarau has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Challenge League
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Challenge League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, was also a home game here at Stade de la Maladière. The away team is better rested.
4-1-1 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Aarau when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those six matches are 11-6 (scored/conceded).
Neuchâtel Xamax form and stats
2 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Neuchâtel Xamax, who have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Challenge League, have to build on here at Stade de la Maladière in the Challenge League. It's trouble wherever Neuchâtel are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
Stress levels are on the rise for Neuchâtel's attacking players as they have now played 199 minutes without scoring in a league game. M. Dominguez was their last goal scorer.
The Neuchâtel fans got no joy from their last match, a Challenge League game also here at Stade de la Maladière: A 0-1 defeat against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy (placed 2nd). Heartbreak before that as Neuchâtel Xamax lost 0-2 at FC Schaffhausen's place.
This is expected to be a close game, with Neuchâtel Xamax perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Neuchâtel Xamax as a small favourite), we find ten games. Neuchâtel has won one of these, drawn five and lost four.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Neuchâtel as they are travelling to their away game against Grasshopper in the Challenge League. That match is three days after this one.
Neuchâtel aren't scoring a lot here at Stade de la Maladière in the league, with only 3 goals from 4 games. Neuchâtel Xamax's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 5 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Aarau form and stats
As the visiting team in Challenge League matches, Aarau, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Challenge League, have produced an overall stat of 1-1-2 so far.
The supporters enjoyed Aarau's previous game versus Winterthur (placed 5th), a Challenge League 3-1 win played at home. Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Grasshopper.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Aarau in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Aarau, one draw and two defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Aarau manager S. Keller as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Chiasso.
Aarau are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). Aarau have conceded 8 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Aarau - Neuchâtel 3-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Neuchâtel Xamax wins - draws - Aarau wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Gashi 6 goals |   R. Nuzzolo 3 goals |  L. Mafouta 2 goals |
Neuchâtel Xamax missing players
Aarau missing players
| Neuchâtel Xamax | Aarau | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 80% |
| 67% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 70% |
| 44% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 50% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 10% |
| 56% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 80% |
| 11% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.7 | 7.5 | 3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.2 | 9.8 |
| 3.3 | 3.2 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| 33% | 23% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 26% | 39% |
- Aarau has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Challenge League
- Aarau have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Aarau haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Challenge League
- Neuchâtel Xamax haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Grasshopper | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 20 |
| 2 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Thun | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
| 4 | FC Schaffhausen | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| 5 | Winterthur | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Aarau | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 14 |
| 7 | Kriens | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 12 |
| 8 | Wil | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 10 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 9 |
| 10 | Chiasso | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -13 | 5 |