The visiting Young Boys side should be favourites in this visit to Lugano, as the away team holds a 22 point advantage from their 21 league games this season.
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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Young Boys's home stadium. The visitors last 35 games on grass have ended in 19 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses.
Lugano form and stats
Lugano's results here at Stadio di Cornaredo in the Super League have been very modest with 1 victory, 5 draws and 4 defeats. Lugano have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
The fans are hoping that Lugano will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the Super League game against Thun (placed 10th). Prior to that, an away loss at St. Gallen.
Noam Baumann had a busy but productive day in the Thun match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented.
Lugano have scored 4 goals here in 10 league matches, a depressing statistic. Lugano's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Young Boys form and stats
The visitors are W4-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.
Young Boys won their last game, 1-0 versus Sion played at home. Prior to that match, the Young Boys manager G. Seoane faced defeat when travelling to Luzern and losing 0-2.
The travelling fans enjoy Young Boys's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 10 league matches away. In the opposite end, Young Boys have conceded 16 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Lugano - Young Boys 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lugano zero wins, two draws and Young Boys eight victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Nsamé 17 goals |   M. Marić 5 goals |  C. Fassnacht 4 goals |
Lugano missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Lugano | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 22 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 42 |
| 26 | 10 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 26 |
| 81% | 70% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 95% |
| 67% | 40% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | 81% |
| 48% | 20% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 60% | 52% |
| 24% | 10% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 40% | 43% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 29% |
| 48% | 30% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 40% | 48% |
| 33% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 38% |
| 38% | 60% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 19% |
| 5.6 | 5.4 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 6.2 | 6.5 |
| 5.9 | 5.6 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 259 | 109 | 23 | Total Shots | T S | 55 | 137 | 315 |
| 90 | 26 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 42 | 105 |
| 24% | 15% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 36% | 40% |
- Lugano has the fewest points from losing position (1)
- Lugano has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Lugano have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Young Boys has the most points from losing position (11)
- Young Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals away as Lugano have scored 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 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 48 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 21 | 44 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 21 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 42 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 44 |
| 3 | Basel | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 46 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 25 | 39 |
| 4 | Servette | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 33 |
| 5 | Zürich | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -14 | 31 |
| 6 | Luzern | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 27 |
| 7 | Lugano | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | -4 | 22 |
| 8 | Sion | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 27 | 39 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -12 | 22 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 21 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 18 | -14 | 15 |
| 10 | Thun | 21 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 21 | 45 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 21 | -24 | 15 |