Winterthur vs FC Schaffhausen betting preview

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Thu 20.May
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Schützenwiese (9450 seats)

The season has been a rollercoaster for these teams so far, the highs and lows leading to mid-table positions so far. Let's get ready for Winterthur - FC Schaffhausen!

Insights:
  • Winterthur is in the worst form (1-1-4)
  • FC Schaffhausen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

Winterthur's stadium, Stadion Schützenwiese, has a grass surface. FC Schaffhausen have artifical turf 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 FC Schaffhausen when playing on grass; 9 wins, 14 draws and 17 losses from 40 matches. They have scored 45 goals in these games and conceded 68.

Winterthur are done competing for places this season; they will remain in 6th place whatever happens now. For Schaffhausen most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Winterthur form and stats

7 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Winterthur have to build on here at Stadion Schützenwiese in the Challenge League.

Winterthur faced defeat in their previous match, away at Kriens (0-3). Goalkeeper G. Tolino got the top rating on the team in that game; 0.0 out of ten. Tolino .

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Grasshopper in a game that was won 2-1.

A decent goal production from Winterthur in their home games so far, with 31 goals from 17 league matches. Winterthur's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 23 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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FC Schaffhausen form and stats

As the visiting team in Challenge League matches, FC Schaffhausen have produced an overall stat of 5-6-6 so far.

There were no winners in Schaffhausen's previous match, a Challenge League home game that ended 1-1 vs Chiasso (placed 10th). A. Saipi was the team player of the game with the player rating of 0.0. The agile goalkeeper Saipi .

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Thun's place.

Schaffhausen are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 22 away goals from 17 games (in the league). 23 goals have been conceded by FC Schaffhausen in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: FC Schaffhausen - Winterthur 3-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Winterthur victories, four draws and two FC Schaffhausen wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

FC SchaffhausenR. Pollero López
R. Pollero López
20 goals
WinterthurR. Buess
R. Buess
11 goals
FC SchaffhausenI. Prtajin
I. Prtajin
11 goals

Winterthur missing players

FC Schaffhausen missing players

Winterthur FC Schaffhausen
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
35 17 2 Played P 2 17 35
11 7 1 Won W 0 5 15
10 5 1 Drew D 1 6 10
14 5 0 Lost L 1 6 10
49 31 3 Scored S 3 22 57
50 23 2 Conceded C 4 23 45
91% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 76% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 86%
51% 59% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 53% 54%
34% 41% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 24% 31%
23% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 11%
54% 65% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 65% 63%
29% 24% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 26%
26% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 11%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.5 2
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
6.2 5.5 4 Shots (avg) S ( 3 6.9 8.4
2.8 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.5 2.8 3.7
51% 61% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 300% 46% 44%
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • FC Schaffhausen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Winterthur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Winterthur is in the worst form (1-1-4)

  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 35 18 8 9 58 42 17 11 3 3 32 17 18 7 5 6 26 25 16 62
2 Thun 35 18 7 10 55 45 18 10 3 5 26 16 17 8 4 5 29 29 10 61
3 Aarau 35 17 7 11 66 56 17 11 3 3 39 19 18 6 4 8 27 37 10 58
4 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 35 14 13 8 54 39 18 8 6 4 32 21 17 6 7 4 22 18 15 55
5 FC Schaffhausen 35 15 10 10 57 45 18 10 4 4 35 22 17 5 6 6 22 23 12 55
6 Winterthur 35 11 10 14 49 50 17 7 5 5 31 23 18 4 5 9 18 27 -1 43
7 Wil 35 10 9 16 42 50 17 8 5 4 27 17 18 2 4 12 15 33 -8 39
8 Kriens 35 9 11 15 39 46 18 4 7 7 23 23 17 5 4 8 16 23 -7 38
9 Neuchâtel Xamax 35 10 6 19 35 56 18 7 3 8 21 24 17 3 3 11 14 32 -21 36
10 Chiasso 35 8 9 18 33 59 17 6 6 5 18 22 18 2 3 13 15 37 -26 33

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.