Challenge League prediction and data: Yverdon Sport moderate favourite to top Neuchâtel Xamax

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Competition: Switzerland Challenge League
Competition: Sat 12.February
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Municipal (6600 seats)

Happy home supporters, the away team steals the points or an exciting draw? Everything is possible when the mid-table inhabitants Yverdon Sport and Neuchâtel Xamax meet at Stade Municipal.

Insights:
  • Yverdon Sport have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Challenge League
  • Neuchâtel Xamax have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Challenge League

6 - 9 - 19 with 28-64. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Neuchâtel Xamax when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Neuchâtel Xamax play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

Not a lot of time to rest for the home side, as they played a Swiss Cup game only four days earlier. Thankfully the previous game, versus Lausanne Sport, was also a home game here at Stade Municipal. The away team is better rested.

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Yverdon Sport form and stats

21 points is a decent return from 10 Challenge League games here at Stade Municipal for Yverdon Sport. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

The Yverdon Sport goalkeeper Kevin Martin is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 281 minutes without conceding a goal in the Challenge League.

In the game before, an away victory in the Challenge League match versus Kriens with a 3-0 scoreline.

Yverdon have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stade Municipal with 15 goals in 10 league matches. Yverdon Sport are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Municipal in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 10 matches.

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Neuchâtel Xamax form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Neuchâtel Xamax so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-5 (win-draw-lose).

Neuchâtel Xamax won their last game, 2-1 versus FC Schaffhausen played at home.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Aarau that ended 1-1.

We have checked recent matches where Neuchâtel Xamax have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 16 games were three victories, four draws and nine defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Neuchâtel as they have only managed to score 9 times from 10 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Neuchâtel Xamax struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 15 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Neuchâtel Xamax - Yverdon 2-1 was the scoreline in these participants' latest head-to-head match, played this season. Last ten meetings with these contenders: Yverdon Sport won one, Neuchâtel Xamax triumphed in eight and we saw one draw. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Yverdon SportK. Kone
K. Kone
9 goals
Neuchâtel XamaxK. Gazzetta
K. Gazzetta
4 goals
Neuchâtel XamaxR. Nuzzolo
R. Nuzzolo
4 goals

Yverdon Sport missing players

Neuchâtel Xamax missing players

Yverdon Sport Neuchâtel Xamax
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 1 Played P 1 10 20
8 6 1 Won W 0 2 8
5 3 0 Drew D 0 3 4
7 1 0 Lost L 1 5 8
26 15 1 Scored S 2 9 29
23 7 0 Conceded C 3 15 30
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
75% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 70% 85%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 65%
15% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 20% 30%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 10% 15%
40% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 60%
40% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
30% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 30% 25%
 
4.3 3.8 4 Corners for (avg) C F 1 3.7 4.1
4.5 4.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.6 3.9
3.2 3.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.6 2.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
9.4 9.8 11 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.2 9.6
3.8 4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.5 4.5
35% 38% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 26% 32%
 
9.2 8.9 9 Shots against (avg) S A 16 10.1 8.8
3.5 2.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8 4.2 4
Key stats in Challenge League this season:
  • Neuchâtel Xamax have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Challenge League
  • Yverdon Sport have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Yverdon Sport have the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in Challenge League
  • Yverdon Sport have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Challenge League
  • Yverdon Sport have the most points (21) 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 Vaduz 20 10 5 5 37 28 10 5 2 3 17 13 10 5 3 2 20 15 9 35
2 Aarau 20 10 5 5 32 23 10 6 2 2 15 8 10 4 3 3 17 15 9 35
3 Winterthur 20 9 6 5 36 25 10 6 2 2 22 11 10 3 4 3 14 14 11 33
4 Thun 19 9 3 7 34 27 10 5 2 3 19 14 9 4 1 4 15 13 7 30
5 Yverdon Sport 20 8 5 7 26 23 10 6 3 1 15 7 10 2 2 6 11 16 3 29
6 Neuchâtel Xamax 20 8 4 8 29 30 10 6 1 3 20 15 10 2 3 5 9 15 -1 28
7 FC Schaffhausen 19 7 6 6 33 26 9 5 4 0 19 10 10 2 2 6 14 16 7 27
8 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 20 7 5 8 25 26 10 5 3 2 15 10 10 2 2 6 10 16 -1 26
9 Wil 20 7 4 9 39 42 10 4 3 3 26 20 10 3 1 6 13 22 -3 25
10 Kriens 20 1 3 16 10 51 10 1 1 8 6 19 10 0 2 8 4 32 -41 6

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.