Lugano will plan to use their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s adversaries. The hosts are currently 6 points behind Young Boys.
- All of Lugano's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Super League
Lugano's stadium, Stadio di Cornaredo, has a grass surface. Young Boys have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Young Boys when playing on grass; 18 wins, 14 draws and 12 losses from 44 matches. They have scored 79 goals in these games and conceded 55.
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.
Lugano form and stats
The story so far in the Super League for Lugano at their home stadium (Stadio di Cornaredo) is 8 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.
The spoils were shared in Lugano's previous game, also at home. Visiting Grasshopper (placed 7th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. Daprelà, defender, was given a rating of 8.04/10 in that game, top of the team. Daprelà hit one key pass and won 9 of 14 duels.
Heartbreak before that as Lugano lost 0-3 at St. Gallen's place.Lugano are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at Servette awaits in four days.
The Lugano fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 22 in 16 matches. 22 goals have been conceded.
Young Boys form and stats
The visitors are W5-D6-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.
Two away games in a row for Young Boys, whose coach Vanetta could celebrate last time after the win against Sion. Late drama in the previous game, when Siebatcheu scored the winning goal seven minutes into stoppage time to defeat Sion. Rieder got a match rating of 8.04 in that game, top player of the team. Rieder served one assist and hit four key passes.
Before that, Young Boys secured a home win against Servette with the score 3-1.A new game in only three days for Young Boys, the Super League home match versus St. Gallen. Busy days.
The Young Boys manager Vanetta has got the team scoring on the road, with 36 away goals in 16 league matches. Young Boys's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 24 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The sides have played each other before in this season, with the final score Young Boys - Lugano 1-0 entered in the official records. Head-to-head numbers (for the previous ten meetings): Lugano won two games, one match ended in a draw and Young Boys got seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two One of the players to grab the headlines has been Siebatcheu with 7 goals scored against Lugano in these 10 matches.Top Goalscorers
  T. Siebatcheu 22 goals |  C. Fassnacht 9 goals |  A. Kanga 9 goals |
Lugano missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Lugano | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 16 | 32 |
| 14 | 8 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 42 | 22 | 1 | Scored | S | 10 | 36 | 70 |
| 48 | 22 | 5 | Conceded | C | 7 | 24 | 44 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 81% | 84% |
| 50% | 44% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 69% | 72% |
| 28% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 56% | 56% |
| 12% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 31% | 22% |
| 50% | 56% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 69% | 75% |
| 22% | 19% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 12% | 16% |
| 28% | 25% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 19% | 12% |
| 4.1 | 3.9 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6.6 | 7.2 |
| 4.8 | 4 | 0.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| 2.3 | 2.6 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 10.4 | 12.4 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 12.8 | 14.9 |
| 3.8 | 4.6 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8.2 | 6 | 6.4 |
| 34% | 30% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 38% | 34% |
| 11.6 | 11 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 8.8 | 8.1 |
| 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
- All of Lugano's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Young Boys have the most scored goals (36) away in Super League
- Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Super League
- Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+12) away in Super League
- Young Boys have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- 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 | 32 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 71 | 38 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 20 | 33 | 72 |
| 2 | Basel | 32 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 67 | 39 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 36 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 31 | 21 | 28 | 56 |
| 3 | Young Boys | 32 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 70 | 44 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 24 | 26 | 53 |
| 4 | St. Gallen | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 60 | 54 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 6 | 47 |
| 5 | Lugano | 32 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 42 | 48 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 26 | -6 | 47 |
| 6 | Servette | 32 | 12 | 5 | 15 | 45 | 57 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 22 | 33 | -12 | 41 |
| 7 | Grasshopper | 32 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 50 | 51 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 31 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 20 | -1 | 36 |
| 8 | Sion | 32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 39 | 60 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 40 | -21 | 34 |
| 9 | Luzern | 32 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 40 | 59 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 27 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 32 | -19 | 30 |
| 10 | Lausanne Sport | 32 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 34 | 68 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 36 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 32 | -34 | 20 |
