Challenge League match preview: Wil versus Lausanne Sport

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Fri 24.February
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Liko Arena (1000 seats)

Both squads are delivering a nice season so far and games like this could be key. Read more about Wil - Lausanne Sport!

Insights:
  • Wil have the most scored goals (48) in Challenge League
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals (27) in Challenge League

This has all the signs of an exciting match with lots of action and excitement as both participants are well revitalized since they last played a game. Game on!

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Wil form and stats

Home games in the Challenge League have been a walk in the park for Wil so far, with 29 points won from 11 matches; 9 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. days ago.

A nice win for Wil last time playing, versus Neuchatel Xamax. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2 with Wallner, de Oliveira and Dickenmann scoring for the victors.

In the preceding match a 4-3 victory visiting Stade Lausanne-Ouchy.

This is expected to be a close game, with Wil perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Wil as a small favourite), we find 6 games. Wil has won 2 of these, drawn 3 and lost 1.

Goals, goals, goals? Nobody knows the future, but we do know that 12 of the 16 latest league matches with this side has contained three or more goals.

Goals are plentiful at Liko Arena in the league this season as Wil has scored 31 goals here in 11 home games. Wil have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Lausanne Sport form and stats

4 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses. That’s the product of Lausanne Sport playing as the away team in the Challenge League this season. Lausanne Sport love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Lausanne Sport's last game was the home draw against Bellinzona (1-1). Labeau has found the net for the visitors three games in a row. The flair!

Before that one, a nice away victory 3-2 at Neuchatel Xamax.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Lausanne Sport in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Lausanne Sport, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Both teams to score at least one goal each? This team's fresh statistics suggest that, having finished 5 league games in a row with one or more goals from each side.

As opposed to that, Lausanne have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the teams faced each other earlier this season; Wil - Lausanne Sport 1-0. Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Wil won one, Lausanne Sport triumphed in five and we saw four draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Lausanne SportB. Labeau
B. Labeau
15 goals
WilJ. Lukembila
J. Lukembila
7 goals
WilG. Montolio Lafuente
G. Montolio Lafuente
6 goals

Wil missing players

Lausanne Sport missing players

Wil Lausanne Sport
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 1 Played P 1 11 22
13 9 1 Won W 0 4 11
5 2 0 Drew D 0 1 5
4 0 0 Lost L 1 6 6
48 31 4 Scored S 0 11 38
29 8 0 Conceded C 4 16 27
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 91%
82% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 55% 73%
64% 55% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 45% 59%
50% 45% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 27% 41%
27% 36% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 23%
59% 45% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 36% 59%
36% 55% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 18%
14% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 55% 32%
 
4.5 4.7 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 6.4 6.6
5.4 5.1 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.7 4.5
2.3 1.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.3 2.6
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 4 6
 
10.5 11.5 4 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.7 11.7
4.7 5.9 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.6 4.9
46% 48% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 35%
 
10.1 9.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 11 8.2 9.5
3.9 3.4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.4 4.3
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals (27) in Challenge League
  • Lausanne Sport have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (10) in Challenge League
  • Wil have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Wil have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Wil have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Lausanne Sport have scored away.
  • Wil have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in Challenge League
  • Wil have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Challenge League
  • Wil have the most clean sheets (8) in Challenge League
  • Wil have the most points (29) at home in Challenge League
  • Wil have the most scored goals (31) at home in Challenge League
  • Wil have the most scored goals (48) in Challenge League
  • Wil have the the best goal difference (+19) in Challenge League
  • Wil have the the best goal difference (+23) at home 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 Wil 22 13 5 4 48 29 11 9 2 0 31 8 11 4 3 4 17 21 19 44
2 Yverdon Sport 22 13 3 6 45 36 11 7 2 2 24 12 11 6 1 4 21 24 9 42
3 Lausanne Sport 22 11 5 6 38 27 11 7 4 0 27 11 11 4 1 6 11 16 11 38
4 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 22 10 5 7 39 32 11 6 1 4 23 22 11 4 4 3 16 10 7 35
5 Thun 22 7 8 7 33 32 11 4 4 3 14 15 11 3 4 4 19 17 1 29
6 Aarau 22 7 8 7 37 42 11 4 4 3 18 17 11 3 4 4 19 25 -5 29
7 FC Schaffhausen 22 7 6 9 25 30 11 4 3 4 10 11 11 3 3 5 15 19 -5 27
8 Bellinzona 22 7 3 12 25 42 11 4 0 7 15 22 11 3 3 5 10 20 -17 24
9 Vaduz 22 3 10 9 30 38 11 2 5 4 16 19 11 1 5 5 14 19 -8 19
10 Neuchatel Xamax 22 2 7 13 28 40 11 2 5 4 17 16 11 0 2 9 11 24 -12 13

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.