Grasshopper and Young Boys supporters eagerly anticipate Super League meeting at Stadion Letzigrund

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 20.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Letzigrund (26104 seats)

Both sides are capable in this league, Young Boys enjoying a 13 point lead on Grasshopper in the standings. Let's get started!

Insights:
  • Grasshopper have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+24) in Super League

This football pitch has grass, which is not Young Boys's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Young Boys have performed like this: Played 44 matches earning 20 wins, 13 draws and 11 defeats with the goal numbers 77-52 (scored/conceded).

This could be an engaging match with lots of action and bustle as both contenders are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!

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Grasshopper form and stats

When playing at home in the Super League, Grasshopper have managed 3 wins, 4 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 10 games.

Grasshopper enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Lausanne Sport's place. The match ended 2-0 with Momoh (2) scoring. The striker Momoh won the honour of being "man of the match" for Grasshopper with a rating of 8.3/10. Momoh scored two goals.

Ahead of that match, Grasshopper lost 1-3 at home to Zürich.

The Grasshopper fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 18 goals in 10 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Grasshopper have conceded 16 from these games.

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Young Boys form and stats

4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Young Boys playing as the away team in the Super League this season.

Young Boys won their last game, 3-1 versus Basel played at home. Attacker Siebatcheu got a player rating of 8.32 in the game. "Man of the match" Siebatcheu scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus St. Gallen that ended 3-3.

Young Boys create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 27 goals in 10 travels. As opposed to that, Young Boys have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Here's the final score when the sides played each other earlier this campaign; Grasshopper - Young Boys 1-1. Previous ten meetings with these teams: Grasshopper won zero, Young Boys triumphed in seven and we saw three draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
14 goals
Young BoysC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
9 goals
GrasshopperM. Sene
M. Sene
8 goals

Grasshopper missing players

Young Boys missing players

Grasshopper Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 2 10 21
6 3 0 Won W 2 4 11
8 4 1 Drew D 0 3 6
7 3 2 Lost L 0 3 4
35 18 4 Scored S 11 27 50
31 16 8 Conceded C 0 14 26
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
90% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 81%
52% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 62%
48% 50% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 60% 52%
14% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 33%
71% 80% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 67%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 20% 24%
19% 20% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 14%
 
5 5.6 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 9 6.3 7
5 4.6 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 2 2.9 3.6
2.6 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
10.3 10.2 10.3 Shots (avg) S ( 16.5 12.8 14.9
4.1 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 10.5 6.9 6.7
40% 45% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 52% 39% 35%
 
10.8 9.9 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 9 7.6 7.7
4.8 5 5.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1 3 3
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Grasshopper have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Grasshopper haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (27) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (33) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+13) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+24) in Super League
  • Young Boys have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
  • Young Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 21 15 4 2 50 27 11 9 2 0 29 10 10 6 2 2 21 17 23 49
2 Young Boys 21 11 6 4 50 26 11 7 3 1 23 12 10 4 3 3 27 14 24 39
3 Basel 21 9 10 2 45 25 10 4 5 1 24 12 11 5 5 1 21 13 20 37
4 Lugano 21 10 3 8 27 29 10 6 2 2 15 13 11 4 1 6 12 16 -2 33
5 Servette 21 8 4 9 34 39 10 4 2 4 18 19 11 4 2 5 16 20 -5 28
6 Grasshopper 21 6 8 7 35 31 10 3 4 3 18 16 11 3 4 4 17 15 4 26
7 Sion 21 7 4 10 29 39 10 5 1 4 14 11 11 2 3 6 15 28 -10 25
8 St. Gallen 21 6 5 10 35 44 11 3 5 3 20 20 10 3 0 7 15 24 -9 23
9 Luzern 21 2 8 11 22 41 11 2 2 7 12 21 10 0 6 4 10 20 -19 14
10 Lausanne Sport 21 2 6 13 19 45 11 1 3 7 11 28 10 1 3 6 8 17 -26 12

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.