Super League match prediction: Little separates Basel and Servette in quality

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 21.Oct
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: St. Jakob-Park (37994 seats)

Super League: Basel are 8 points behind Servette, but are psyched to go all in. Let's start!

Insights:
  • Basel is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Servette 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.

L L D L W

Basel form and stats

Basel have collected 5 points from their Super League home games so far after 1-2-2.

Jovanović was the last player to score a league goal for Basel and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Basel haven't scored in 210 minutes.

No payout for Basel in their previous match, an away game at Young Boys that ended in defeat 0-3. Xhaka (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.15/10. Xhaka hit two key passes and had 39 successful passes (of 45 total).

Ahead of that match, Basel lost 0-3 at home to Stade Lausanne-Ouchy.

This is expected to be a close game, with Basel perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Basel as a small favourite), we find 6 games. Basel has won 3 of these, drawn 0 and lost 3.

Basel have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at St. Jakob-Park with 9 goals in 5 league matches.

W L W D L

Servette form and stats

2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Servette in their Super League matches away.

Two trips in a row for Servette, whose coach Weiler could celebrate last time after the win against Lugano. Antunes got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Antunes hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit two key passes.

A loss, in the Europa League away at Roma, earlier. So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Servette playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were 3 Servette wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats.

Servette find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. Servette struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 8 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Basel have put together a sequence of 9 consecutive games without losing (3-6-0) when playing Servette.

The matches between these sides have sometimes been hot-tempered, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

ServetteC. Bedia
C. Bedia
5 goals
BaselF. Frei
F. Frei
3 goals
BaselJ. Augustin
J. Augustin
2 goals

Basel missing players

Servette missing players

Basel Servette
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 5 2 Played P 2 5 10
1 1 1 Won W 1 2 3
2 2 1 Drew D 1 1 4
6 2 0 Lost L 0 2 3
13 9 6 Scored S 4 6 13
21 10 3 Conceded C 2 8 15
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
89% 80% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 50%
44% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 40%
22% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
78% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 70%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 10%
22% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 20%
 
4.3 3.4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 7.2 6.2
5.1 3.2 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4 4.6
1.6 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.1 13.6 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 15 16.4 16
4.6 5 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 5.6 5.8
32% 36% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 21% 22%
 
13.7 12.8 14 Shots against (avg) S A 9 10.2 12.5
5.7 5.6 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3 4.5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Basel's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Basel have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Basel have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Super League
  • Basel have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Super League
  • Basel have the most conceded goals (10) at home in Super League
  • Basel have the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super League
  • Basel have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Basel haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Basel is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Servette haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zürich 10 6 4 0 22 9 5 4 1 0 11 4 5 2 3 0 11 5 13 22
2 Young Boys 9 6 2 1 20 9 4 4 0 0 14 4 5 2 2 1 6 5 11 20
3 St. Gallen 10 5 3 2 15 9 5 5 0 0 12 4 5 0 3 2 3 5 6 18
4 Lugano 9 5 0 4 18 15 4 3 0 1 9 3 5 2 0 3 9 12 3 15
5 Luzern 10 4 3 3 13 14 5 3 1 1 9 8 5 1 2 2 4 6 -1 15
6 Yverdon Sport 10 4 3 3 15 19 5 3 1 1 10 8 5 1 2 2 5 11 -4 15
7 Servette 10 3 4 3 13 15 5 1 3 1 7 7 5 2 1 2 6 8 -2 13
8 Winterthur 10 3 3 4 21 23 5 2 2 1 8 6 5 1 1 3 13 17 -2 12
9 Grasshopper 10 2 2 6 12 15 5 1 1 3 5 7 5 1 1 3 7 8 -3 8
10 Lausanne Sport 10 2 2 6 13 18 5 1 2 2 7 9 5 1 0 4 6 9 -5 8
11 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy 9 2 2 5 9 17 5 1 2 2 4 9 4 1 0 3 5 8 -8 8
12 Basel 9 1 2 6 13 21 5 1 2 2 9 10 4 0 0 4 4 11 -8 5

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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.