Grasshopper get ready to host St. Gallen for another absorbing Super League match here at Stadion Letzigrund.
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.
Grasshopper form and stats
Grasshopper have only played one Super League game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 5 wins, 6 draws and 7 defeats from 18 matches.
Grasshopper drew their last game, 1-1 away at Young Boys (placed 1st). Grasshopper's goalie Moreira played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against Young Boys with a stunning six saves.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Lugano.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 9 games. Grasshopper has won 4 of these, drawn 3 and lost 2.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Grasshopper as they are travelling to their away game against Luzern in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.
At Stadion Letzigrund, Grasshopper has the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
St. Gallen form and stats
St. Gallen have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Super League were 7 victories, 1 draw and 10 defeats from 18 fixtures.
St. Gallen have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi. It's been 265 minutes since they last conceded in Super League.
Gallen are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the fixture against Zurich (placed 10th). Goalkeeper Ati was absolutely vital in the St. Gallen victory against Zurich, making ten saves. Ati (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 9.33. Ati topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that, St. Gallen secured a home win against Winterthur with the score 2-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by St. Gallen in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Gallen, 1 draw and 7 defeats.
St. Gallen have the goal stats of 0-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - one - five (Grasshopper wins - draws - St. Gallen wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Kawabe 2 goals |  F. Schubert 2 goals |  J. Vonmoos 2 goals |
Grasshopper missing players
St. Gallen missing players
| Grasshopper | St. Gallen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 33% |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4.7 |
| 7.5 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.7 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9.5 | 12 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12 | 15 |
| 4.5 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 4.7 |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 18 | 18 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7 | 10.7 |
| 5.5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Grasshopper | Last season | St. Gallen | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 18 | 36 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Drew | D | 1 | 8 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Lost | L | 10 | 14 | ||
| 54 | 33 | Scored | S | 32 | 68 | ||
| 58 | 34 | Conceded | C | 36 | 63 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 86% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 94% | ||
| 53% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 78% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 61% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | ||
| 17% | 28% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 69% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | ||
| 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 28% | 22% | ||
| 22% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 6% | 11% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 7 | ||
| 10.3 | 10.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 12.5 | ||
| 4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 5.1 | ||
| 38% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 37% | ||
| 11.7 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.1 | 11.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 5.1 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Servette | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Grasshopper | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Sion | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 6 | Lugano | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Basel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Luzern | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Winterthur | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -5 | 1 |
| 10 | Zurich | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 1 |
| Last season | 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 | 36 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 78 | 46 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 23 | 32 | 76 |
| 2 | Basel | 36 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 70 | 41 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 39 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 31 | 21 | 29 | 62 |
| 3 | Young Boys | 36 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 80 | 50 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 39 | 29 | 30 | 60 |
| 4 | Lugano | 36 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 50 | 54 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 30 | -4 | 54 |
| 5 | St. Gallen | 36 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 68 | 63 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 36 | 27 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 32 | 36 | 5 | 50 |
| 6 | Servette | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 50 | 66 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 40 | -16 | 44 |
| 7 | Sion | 36 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 46 | 67 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 41 | -21 | 41 |
| 8 | Grasshopper | 36 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 54 | 58 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 33 | 34 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 24 | -4 | 40 |
| 9 | Luzern | 36 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 52 | 64 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 27 | 29 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 25 | 35 | -12 | 40 |
| 10 | Lausanne Sport | 36 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 37 | 76 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 38 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 38 | -39 | 22 |
