Basel vs Zürich match preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: St. Jakob-Park (37994 seats)

Welcome to St. Jakob-Park and the game between Basel and Zürich in the Super League. Here's all you need to know!

Insights:
  • Basel have the fewest points from losing position (5) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most dropped points from leading position (26) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Basel nor Zürich as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Zürich are struggling to avoid relegation.

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Basel form and stats

Basel have played 17 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 8-6-3 (wins-draws-losses). There’s a good atmosphere here at St. Jakob-Park after three straight home wins.

Valentin Stocker (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.4/10. Stocker scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Prior to that, an away loss at Young Boys.

A decent goal production from Basel in their home games so far, with 31 goals from 17 league matches. Basel's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 21 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Zürich form and stats

The visitors, who have the most conceded goals (32) away in Super League, are W5-D5-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.

Fabian Rohner, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.82. Rohner scored one goal, hit three key passes and won 3 of 8 duels. Drawing 2-2 against St. Gallen after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager M. Rizzo needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.

Zürich are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 26 times in 17 away games so far. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Zürich have conceded 32 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Zürich - Basel 2-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Basel victories, zero draws and four Zürich wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BaselA. Mendonça Cabral
A. Mendonça Cabral
18 goals
ZürichA. Marchesano
A. Marchesano
12 goals
BaselP. Kasami
P. Kasami
11 goals

Basel missing players

Zürich missing players

Basel Zürich
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
34 17 6 Played P 4 17 34
14 8 2 Won W 0 5 10
8 6 3 Drew D 0 5 10
12 3 1 Lost L 4 7 14
56 31 10 Scored S 3 26 49
49 21 8 Conceded C 11 32 52
94% 88% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 94%
79% 76% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 79%
59% 59% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 76% 65%
41% 47% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 65% 44%
24% 29% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 24% 15%
62% 59% 67% BTTS BTTS 75% 71% 62%
21% 35% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 26%
24% 18% 17% Failed to Score F T 25% 18% 18%
 
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 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.2 2.3
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
10.1 11.4 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 9.1 9.4
4.5 5.3 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.6 3.9
37% 34% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 21% 43% 37%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Basel have the fewest points from losing position (5) in Super League
  • Basel have the most conceded goals in the second half (34) in Super League
  • Zürich have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Zürich have the most conceded goals (32) away in Super League
  • Zürich have the most dropped points from leading position (26) in Super 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 Young Boys 34 23 9 2 65 25 17 13 3 1 33 12 17 10 6 1 32 13 40 78
2 Basel 34 14 8 12 56 49 17 8 6 3 31 21 17 6 2 9 25 28 7 50
3 Servette 34 13 8 13 41 53 17 6 7 4 27 27 17 7 1 9 14 26 -12 47
4 Luzern 34 12 10 12 59 52 17 7 7 3 35 21 17 5 3 9 24 31 7 46
5 Lausanne Sport 34 12 10 12 50 46 17 9 2 6 31 25 17 3 8 6 19 21 4 46
6 Lugano 34 10 13 11 35 40 17 6 4 7 16 19 17 4 9 4 19 21 -5 43
7 Zürich 34 10 10 14 49 52 17 5 5 7 23 20 17 5 5 7 26 32 -3 40
8 St. Gallen 34 9 11 14 38 47 17 6 5 6 19 20 17 3 6 8 19 27 -9 38
9 Vaduz 34 9 9 16 34 51 17 4 4 9 17 28 17 5 5 7 17 23 -17 36
10 Sion 34 7 14 13 43 55 17 3 8 6 19 26 17 4 6 7 24 29 -12 35

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.