Basel will hope to draw on their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opposition. The home side are currently 3 points behind Luzern.
- Basel have the fewest matches over the total-line (11) in Super League
- Luzern have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
These are busy days for the team playing at home, as they had a game only three days ago in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Nice.
Basel form and stats
5 victories, 7 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Basel have to build on here at St. Jakob-Park in the Super League.
Basel are returning here after guesting Nice in a Europa Conference League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. The attacker Amdouni was named "man of the match" for Basel with a rating of 7.83/10. Amdouni hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 6 of 9 times.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Super League home game that ended 1-1 versus Young Boys.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Basel have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 8 and lost 2.
Basel are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at Sion awaits in four days.
The Basel fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 23 goals in 14 league matches. Basel have conceded 15 in these home matches.
Luzern form and stats
6-4-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Luzern in their Super League matches away.
Impressive finishing from Meyer, Dorn (2) and Sorgić secured the home win 4-1 against Zurich in their previous game. Midfielder Meyer was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 9.1. Meyer scored one goal, served one assist, hit five key passes and had 36 successful passes (of 44 total).
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Winterthur.Luzern are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.
Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored in 9 of this club's last 11 league fixtures.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Winterthur in just four days.
Luzern are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 25 times in 14 away games so far. Luzern have conceded 20 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Uncannily enough, Luzern have scored at least one goal in every league match they've performed in since failing to score against today's hosts; the Luzern - Basel 0-1 match five game weeks ago. Chader (Luzern) was sent off by the referee when these teams last played each other. Stats for the preceeding ten meetings featuring these two sides are: eight wins for Basel, one draw and one win for Luzern. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Meyer 10 goals |   M. Amdouni 7 goals |  A. Zeqiri 7 goals |
Basel missing players
Luzern missing players
| Basel | Luzern | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 27 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 12 | 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 37 | 23 | 4 | Scored | S | 6 | 22 | 42 |
| 33 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 8 | 20 | 39 |
| 86% | 79% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 71% | 79% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 89% |
| 39% | 43% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 69% | 56% |
| 32% | 43% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 33% |
| 14% | 21% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 23% | 19% |
| 57% | 64% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 69% | 67% |
| 25% | 29% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 15% | 15% |
| 32% | 29% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 23% | 22% |
| 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5 | 6.2 |
| 4.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 13 | 15.1 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 12.4 | 13.4 |
| 5.4 | 6 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| 24% | 27% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 32% | 29% |
| 11.2 | 9.4 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 12.7 | 12.2 |
| 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 5.4 | 5.1 |
- Basel have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Basel have the fewest matches over the total-line (11) in Super League
- Basel have the most matches under the total-line (17) in Super League
- Luzern have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Luzern have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 28 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 63 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 43 | 58 |
| 2 | Servette | 28 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 34 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 22 | -2 | 41 |
| 3 | Luzern | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 45 | 39 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 6 | 39 |
| 4 | Lugano | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 40 | 39 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 37 |
| 5 | St. Gallen | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 51 | 42 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 16 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 26 | 9 | 36 |
| 6 | Basel | 28 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 37 | 33 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 36 |
| 7 | Grasshopper | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 41 | 47 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 24 | -6 | 34 |
| 8 | Zurich | 28 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 29 | 44 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 24 | -15 | 30 |
| 9 | Sion | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 37 | 53 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 23 | -16 | 30 |
| 10 | Winterthur | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 50 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 27 | -24 | 29 |
