It's time for Challenge League and Neuchâtel Xamax - Yverdon Sport. In this pre-match guide you'll find numbers, previous results, numbercrunching, trends and stories!
- Neuchâtel Xamax have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Yverdon Sport have the fewest scored goals in the first half (15) in Challenge League
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.
Neuchâtel Xamax form and stats
8 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Neuchâtel Xamax have to build on here at Stade de la Maladière in the Challenge League.
Happy days for Neuchâtel in their previous game, a fixture away at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy (placed 7th) that ended with a 3-1 victory.
Before that game, the home loss against Aarau with the scoreline 0-3.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Neuchâtel Xamax as they are travelling to their away game against Winterthur in the Challenge League. That match is four days after this one.
The Neuchâtel Xamax fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 29 goals in 16 league matches. Neuchâtel have conceded 25 from these games.
Yverdon Sport form and stats
There's been little loot from Yverdon Sport's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 16 away games in the Challenge League. Yverdon Sport only have 4 wins to counter their 9 defeats and 3 draws.
Home advantage was not enough for Yverdon Sport in their previous game as they lost hosting Aarau, 0-4. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Aarau was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
A 2-2 draw at Wil's stadium before that.After this away game Yverdon Sport return home for a Challenge League game against Kriens. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Yverdon have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 16 away games in the league. As for defending, Yverdon Sport rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 25 goals from these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The latest archived scoreline between these squads is the Yverdon Sport - Neuchâtel 0-0 played not long ago this season. Zock (Yverdon Sport) was sent off by the referee when these teams last met. Head to head numbers (for the preceeding ten meetings): Neuchâtel Xamax won eight games, two matches ended with a draw and Yverdon Sport have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  K. Kone 13 goals |   R. Nuzzolo 12 goals |  K. Gazzetta 4 goals |
Neuchâtel Xamax missing players
Yverdon Sport missing players
| Neuchâtel Xamax | Yverdon Sport | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 16 | 5 | Played | P | 3 | 16 | 33 |
| 13 | 8 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 9 | 13 |
| 49 | 29 | 13 | Scored | S | 2 | 17 | 39 |
| 48 | 25 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 25 | 47 |
| 91% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | 91% |
| 85% | 94% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 76% |
| 64% | 75% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 52% |
| 30% | 38% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 30% |
| 18% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| 58% | 62% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 31% | 42% |
| 21% | 19% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 31% | 33% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 44% | 33% |
| 4.1 | 4.2 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.7 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.9 | 5.3 |
| 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 3.1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 8.8 | 9.2 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 8.8 | 9.3 |
| 4.2 | 4.6 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 36% | 39% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 34% |
| 9.8 | 9.8 | 11.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10.2 | 10.1 |
| 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.6 | 4 |
- Neuchâtel Xamax have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Yverdon Sport have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Challenge League
- Yverdon Sport have the fewest scored goals in the first half (15) in Challenge League
- Yverdon Sport have the most matches under the total-line (16) in Challenge League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Aarau | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 65 | 45 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 38 | 24 | 20 | 62 |
| 2 | Winterthur | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 68 | 44 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 41 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 59 |
| 3 | FC Schaffhausen | 33 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 66 | 45 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 59 |
| 4 | Vaduz | 33 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 63 | 55 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 24 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 32 | 31 | 8 | 53 |
| 5 | Thun | 33 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 56 | 50 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 6 | 50 |
| 6 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 33 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 49 | 48 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 46 |
| 7 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 43 | 46 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 28 | -3 | 43 |
| 8 | Wil | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 65 | 73 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 43 | -8 | 41 |
| 9 | Yverdon Sport | 33 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 39 | 47 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 25 | -8 | 40 |
| 10 | Kriens | 33 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 84 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 32 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 52 | -61 | 13 |
