Here's what we know about the Basel - Lugano match:

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 31.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. Jakob-Park (37994 seats)

A key match in Super League as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Basel in 2nd position and Lugano placed 3rd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Basel has the most scored goals (24) in Super League
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.

The hosts Basel saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Super League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sion.

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Basel form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for Basel, who have the most scored goals (24) in Super League, at their home stadium (St. Jakob-Park) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Happy days for Basel in their previous game, a Super League match away at Sion (placed 8th) that ended with a 3-2 victory. Ahead of that match, Basel lost 1-4 at home to Zurich.

Basel enjoyed their 3-2 win against Sion and the result could have been even better, as they hit the posts three times.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Basel handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, two draws and two defeats.

Basel are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at Lausanne Sport awaits in four days.

The Basel fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 13 goals in 8 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Basel have conceded 13 from these games.

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Lugano form and stats

2-6-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Lugano in their Super League matches away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Zurich game have they lost an away game, meaning Lugano has taken points from eight away matches in a row.

It's the second away game in a row for Lugano, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus St. Gallen (placed 4th) in the Super League last time out. A loss against Young Boys was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Lugano are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, four draws and three defeats. From a total of nine matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Lugano are hosting Vaduz in the Super League only three days away.

The visiting Lugano have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 9 goals from 8 games. It's not easy to score on Lugano as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Lugano - Basel 1-0. Basel-Lugano H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Basel four wins, Lugano two wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

BaselA. Mendonça Cabral
A. Mendonça Cabral
7 goals
BaselP. Kasami
P. Kasami
7 goals
BaselV. Stocker
V. Stocker
3 goals

Basel missing players

Lugano missing players

Basel Lugano
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 1 Played P 1 8 15
8 4 0 Won W 0 2 5
2 2 0 Drew D 1 6 8
6 2 1 Lost L 0 0 2
24 13 0 Scored S 2 9 15
22 13 2 Conceded C 2 7 13
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 87%
69% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 53%
56% 62% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 25% 27%
38% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 20%
25% 38% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
56% 62% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 47%
19% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 40%
31% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 27%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.4 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.8 12.5 8 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8 7.8
4.7 5.4 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 3.1
32% 30% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 31% 32%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Basel has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Super League
  • Basel has the most scored goals (13) at home in Super League
  • Basel has the most scored goals (24) in Super League
  • Basel has the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Super League
  • Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Young Boys 15 9 5 1 22 10 7 4 2 1 10 7 8 5 3 0 12 3 12 32
2 Basel 16 8 2 6 24 22 8 4 2 2 13 13 8 4 0 4 11 9 2 26
3 Lugano 15 5 8 2 15 13 7 3 2 2 6 6 8 2 6 0 9 7 2 23
4 St. Gallen 15 6 5 4 14 12 8 3 2 3 8 8 7 3 3 1 6 4 2 23
5 Zurich 16 6 4 6 23 18 8 3 2 3 10 6 8 3 2 3 13 12 5 22
6 Lausanne Sport 15 5 4 6 18 18 8 4 0 4 11 8 7 1 4 2 7 10 0 19
7 Servette 14 5 4 5 13 14 7 2 4 1 7 7 7 3 0 4 6 7 -1 19
8 Sion 16 3 7 6 17 23 8 2 4 2 10 9 8 1 3 4 7 14 -6 16
9 Luzern 14 3 4 7 20 23 7 1 4 2 10 10 7 2 0 5 10 13 -3 13
10 Vaduz 16 2 5 9 12 25 8 1 2 5 6 13 8 1 3 4 6 12 -13 11

Read more about Super League

Football is the most popular sport in Switzerland and the Swiss Super League is the top competition. It has ten teams who play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures each. The season runs from July to May with a winter break. Number one in the final league table is the champion, number ten is relegated while number nine plays a relegation playoff.