Super League: Grasshopper are 5 points short of Servette, but are driven to go all in. Get ready!
- Grasshopper have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Servette have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Super League
The hosts Grasshopper saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Super League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Lugano, was also a home game here at Stadion Letzigrund. The away team is better rested.
Grasshopper form and stats
Grasshopper have collected 14 points from their Super League home games so far after 3-5-4. Grasshopper are slowly digging their own grave here at Stadion Letzigrund with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the St. Gallen match.
Grasshopper's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Lugano (placed 4th). Midfielder Schmid was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.42 (out of ten) in that game. Schmid hit two key passes and had 42 successful passes (of 48 total).
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at St. Gallen.This is expected to be a close game, with Grasshopper perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Grasshopper as a small favourite), we find eight games. Grasshopper has won three of these, drawn three and lost two.
A decent goal production from Grasshopper in their home games so far, with 21 goals from 12 league matches. Grasshopper have conceded 20 from these games.
Servette form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Geiger, the Servette manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Impressive finishing from Schalk secured the home win 1-0 against Young Boys in their previous game. Frick was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.8. The agile goalkeeper Frick topped it up with a clean sheet.
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Lugano's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by Servette in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Servette, three draws and ten defeats.
Servette find the net regularly in their away games. 16 goals from 12 away fixtures 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. As for defending, Servette rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 22 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These opponents have battled earlier this season: Servette - Grasshopper 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Grasshopper four wins, one draw and Servette five victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Sene 9 goals |  K. Imeri 8 goals |  L. Bonatini Lohner Maia 5 goals |
Grasshopper missing players
Servette missing players
| Grasshopper | Servette | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 24 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| 38 | 21 | 6 | Scored | S | 7 | 16 | 36 |
| 37 | 20 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 22 | 42 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 92% | 92% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 88% |
| 54% | 58% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 62% |
| 46% | 50% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 12% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 71% | 83% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 67% | 67% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 17% | 17% |
| 21% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 5.1 | 6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| 5.1 | 4.8 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 2.7 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10.3 | 10.7 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.7 | 11.2 | 11.5 |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 38% | 41% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 32% | 36% |
| 11.1 | 10.1 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 10.8 | 10.1 |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4.8 | 4.7 |
- Grasshopper have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Grasshopper have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Grasshopper haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Servette have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Super League
- 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 | Zurich | 24 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 57 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 18 | 27 | 56 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 55 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 25 | 43 |
| 3 | Basel | 24 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 52 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 41 |
| 4 | Lugano | 24 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 31 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 17 | -1 | 39 |
| 5 | Servette | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 36 | 42 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -6 | 32 |
| 6 | St. Gallen | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 41 | 46 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 26 | -5 | 30 |
| 7 | Sion | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 43 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 31 | -11 | 29 |
| 8 | Grasshopper | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 38 | 37 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 27 |
| 9 | Luzern | 24 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 45 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 22 | -20 | 18 |
| 10 | Lausanne Sport | 24 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 51 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 30 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 21 | -31 | 12 |
