Thun - Aarau: Small difference between teams clash

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Mon 18.April
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stockhorn Arena (10014 seats)

Thun will want to draw on their home advantage to get one over today’s opponents. The host team are currently 4 points behind Aarau.

Insights:
  • Thun have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aarau is in the worst form (1-0-5)

Thun's stadium, Stockhorn Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Aarau have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Aarau when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses from eleven matches. They have scored 22 goals in these games and conceded 17.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Thun and Aarau.

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Thun form and stats

8 victories, 2 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Thun have to build on here at Stockhorn Arena in the Challenge League. There’s a good atmosphere here at Stockhorn Arena after three straight home wins.

The Thun club members enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Aarau and win 2-1.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-4 away at Neuchatel Xamax.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Thun have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won four, drawn zero and lost six.

A decent goal production from Thun in their home games so far, with 29 goals from 15 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Thun defense is not exactly impregnable. 23 goals conceded from 15 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Aarau form and stats

As the visiting team in Challenge League matches, Aarau have produced an overall stat of 7-3-5 so far.

Two away games in a row for Aarau, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Thun.

Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Winterthur.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Aarau playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were three Aarau wins, one draw and five defeats.

The Aarau manager Keller has got the team scoring on the road, with 31 away goals in 15 league matches. As for defending, Aarau rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 24 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these two sides meet this campaign, as the records show this recent fixture: Thun - Aarau 2-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - one - five (Thun wins - draws - Aarau wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AarauK. Spadanuda
K. Spadanuda
13 goals
AarauS. Gashi
S. Gashi
9 goals
ThunD. Schwizer
D. Schwizer
7 goals

Thun missing players

Aarau missing players

Thun Aarau
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
30 15 3 Played P 3 15 30
14 8 0 Won W 1 7 15
4 2 1 Drew D 0 3 5
12 5 2 Lost L 2 5 10
50 29 4 Scored S 5 31 53
45 23 8 Conceded C 6 24 42
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
87% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 93% 87%
67% 80% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 50%
40% 40% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 30%
17% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 33% 23%
60% 73% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 50%
20% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 27% 37%
20% 7% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 20%
 
6 6.1 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 5.5 6.3
4.6 5.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.1 5.2
2.1 1.6 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.3 2.2
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
12.1 14.9 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13.7 11.7 10.8
4.6 5.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.3 5.4 4.7
36% 36% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 38% 38%
 
10.2 10.9 14.3 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 10.7 10.2
4.4 4.3 6.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 4.9 4.4
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Aarau have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Aarau have the most scored goals in the first half (29) in Challenge League
  • Aarau have the the best goal difference (+7) away in Challenge League
  • Aarau is in the worst form (1-0-5)
  • Thun have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Thun 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 Winterthur 30 16 7 7 62 38 15 11 2 2 38 16 15 5 5 5 24 22 24 55
2 FC Schaffhausen 30 15 7 8 56 41 15 10 4 1 32 17 15 5 3 7 24 24 15 52
3 Aarau 30 15 5 10 53 42 15 8 2 5 22 18 15 7 3 5 31 24 11 50
4 Vaduz 30 14 5 11 56 50 15 7 2 6 24 22 15 7 3 5 32 28 6 47
5 Thun 30 14 4 12 50 45 15 8 2 5 29 23 15 6 2 7 21 22 5 46
6 Neuchatel Xamax 30 12 7 11 46 42 15 8 3 4 29 22 15 4 4 7 17 20 4 43
7 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 30 11 7 12 37 38 15 8 4 3 23 14 15 3 3 9 14 24 -1 40
8 Wil 30 11 6 13 58 60 15 8 3 4 40 27 15 3 3 9 18 33 -2 39
9 Yverdon Sport 30 10 8 12 35 39 15 6 6 3 20 16 15 4 2 9 15 23 -4 38
10 Kriens 30 2 4 24 18 76 15 2 2 11 8 31 15 0 2 13 10 45 -58 10

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.