The visiting Basel side should be favourites in this visit to Lugano, as the away team holds a 14 point advantage from their 23 league games this season.
Lugano form and stats
Lugano's struggle is real here at Stadio di Cornaredo with only 12 points collected from 12 Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-6-4.
The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus Sion in the Super League last time out and are looking for a win here. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Young Boys.
Lugano have scored 6 goals here in 12 league matches, a depressing statistic. From these home matches, Lugano have conceded only 11 goals.
Basel form and stats
5 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Basel, who have the the best goal difference (+24) in Super League, playing as the away team in the Super League this season.
Basel are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Europa League against APOEL. Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Servette.
The travelling fans enjoy Basel's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 11 league matches away. As opposed to that, Basel have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Lugano - Basel 0-3, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lugano one win, four draws and Basel five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 K. Ademi 8 goals |  F. Frei 7 goals | A. Mendonça Cabral 7 goals |
Lugano missing players
Basel missing players
| Lugano | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 24 | 6 | 3 | Scored | S | 10 | 21 | 48 |
| 27 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| 78% | 67% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 96% |
| 65% | 42% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 91% | 91% |
| 48% | 25% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 64% | 74% |
| 22% | 8% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 36% | 39% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 27% | 13% |
| 48% | 33% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 45% | 52% |
| 35% | 42% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 36% | 35% |
| 39% | 58% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 27% | 17% |
| 5.5 | 5.2 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 276 | 126 | 29 | Total Shots | T S | 46 | 144 | 321 |
| 96 | 32 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 19 | 52 | 125 |
| 25% | 19% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 53% | 40% | 38% |
- Basel has the fewest conceded goals (13) away
- Basel has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (11)
- Basel has the the best goal difference (+24)
- Basel have scored at least twice as many goals away as Lugano have scored home.
- Lugano has the fewest points from losing position (1)
- Lugano has the fewest scored goals (6) at home
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | St. Gallen | 23 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 51 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 45 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 45 |
| 3 | Basel | 23 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 48 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 24 | 40 |
| 4 | Servette | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 37 |
| 5 | Zürich | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 45 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 32 |
| 6 | Luzern | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -5 | 31 |
| 7 | Lugano | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Sion | 23 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 28 | 41 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -13 | 23 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 19 |
| 10 | Thun | 23 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -23 | 19 |