Super League match preview: Lugano versus Sion

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio di Cornaredo (6390 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Lugano are in the 6th position while the guesting Sion worry at 10th.

Insights:
  • Lugano is in the worst form (1-0-5)
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (55) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Lugano nor Sion 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.

Sion are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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Lugano form and stats

When playing at home in the Super League, Lugano, who have the fewest scored goals (16) at home in Super League, have managed 6 wins, 4 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 17 games. It's trouble wherever Lugano are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 378 minutes without scoring a league goal. J. Ardaiz was the last player to find the net.

Midfielder Sandi Lovrić was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.6 (out of ten) in that game. Lovrić hit four key passes.

Preceding that match was the home game against Vaduz that was lost 0-2.

Lugano aren't scoring a lot here at Stadio di Cornaredo in the league, with only 16 goals from 17 games. 19 goals have been conceded.

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Sion form and stats

4-6-7 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sion, who have the most conceded goals (55) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.

Goalkeeper Kevin Fickentscher got the top player rating of the team with 8.04/10. Fickentscher stopped the opponent with seven saves. Kevin Fickentscher had red hot gloves after the game against Luzern, shaping the outcome of the game with seven saves made.

Sion find the net regularly in their away games. 24 goals from 17 away fixtures in the league. In the opposite end, Sion have conceded 29 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Sion - Lugano 0-3 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - seven - one (Lugano wins - draws - Sion wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SionA. Grgic
A. Grgic
9 goals
SionG. Karlen
G. Karlen
7 goals
LuganoM. Bottani
M. Bottani
6 goals

Lugano missing players

Sion missing players

Lugano Sion
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
34 17 6 Played P 4 17 34
10 6 2 Won W 2 4 7
13 4 1 Drew D 1 6 14
11 7 3 Lost L 1 7 13
35 16 4 Scored S 5 24 43
40 19 5 Conceded C 4 29 55
94% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 91%
71% 59% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 82% 85%
35% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 59% 56%
18% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 35% 29%
3% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 15%
44% 41% 17% BTTS BTTS 50% 65% 65%
29% 29% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 18% 18%
32% 35% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 24% 26%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 3.1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 3.2 2.8
4 3 1 Red cards R C 0 5 5
 
8.2 9.4 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 8.5 8.5
3.4 3.7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.4 3.3
31% 25% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 41% 38%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano have the fewest scored goals (16) at home in Super League
  • Lugano have the fewest scored goals in the second half (17) in Super League
  • Lugano is in the worst form (1-0-5)
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (55) 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.