The visiting Basel side should be favourites in this visit to Luzern, as the away team holds a 7 point advantage from their 28 league games this season.
- Luzern have the most conceded goals (49) in Super League
- Basel have the fewest points from losing position (4) in Super League
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Luzern form and stats
Overall Super League stats at home this season for Luzern, who have the most conceded goals (49) in Super League, are 4-7-3 (wins-draw-losses).
Luzern's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 3-4 versus Basel (placed 3rd). Heartbreak before that as Luzern lost 1-2 at Lausanne Sport's place.
A goal frenzy last time out for Luzern, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Basel. Fun stuff to watch! Heartbreak for Luzern in their last match as Basel's Arthur scored the winning goal deep into overtime. The penalty miss from Pascal Schürpf in the defeat against Basel was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen.
The Luzern manager F. Celestini has got the team scoring with 28 from 14 home games in the league. On the other hand, Luzern have conceded 20 goals.
Basel form and stats
Playing away, Basel have won 6 games, drawn 0 and suffered 8 defeats in the Super League this season.
Basel play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-3 victory visiting Luzern (placed 8th). Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Vaduz.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Basel, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Late drama in the previous game, when Arthur Cabral scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time to defeat Luzern.
The travelling fans enjoy Basel's attacking play in away games, having scored 21 goals in 14 league matches away. Basel's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 22 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Luzern - Basel 3-4 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Luzern two wins, one draw and Basel seven victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Mendonça Cabral 14 goals |   D. Sorgić 10 goals |  L. Schaub 8 goals |
Luzern missing players
Basel missing players
| Luzern | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 28 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 8 | 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 8 | 11 |
| 49 | 28 | 5 | Scored | S | 9 | 21 | 44 |
| 49 | 20 | 6 | Conceded | C | 6 | 22 | 43 |
| 96% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 96% | 93% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 79% | 79% |
| 75% | 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 64% | 64% |
| 43% | 50% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 36% | 43% |
| 25% | 21% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 14% | 21% |
| 82% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 64% | 68% |
| 14% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 7% | 14% |
| 7% | 7% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.1 | 12.4 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 8.8 | 10.2 |
| 5 | 5.1 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
| 35% | 39% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 42% | 36% |
- Basel have the fewest points from losing position (4) in Super League
- Basel have the most conceded goals in the second half (30) in Super League
- Basel haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Luzern have the fewest matches under the total-line (8) in Super League
- Luzern have the most conceded goals (49) in Super League
- Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Super League
- Luzern have the most dropped points from leading position (23) in Super League
- Luzern have the most matches over the total-line (19) in Super League
- Luzern have the most points from losing position (14) in Super League
- Luzern have the most scored goals (28) at home in Super League
- Luzern have the most scored goals in the second half (31) 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 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 51 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 30 | 60 |
| 2 | Lugano | 28 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 33 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 40 |
| 3 | Basel | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 44 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 21 | 22 | 1 | 39 |
| 4 | Servette | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 32 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 17 | -2 | 38 |
| 5 | Lausanne Sport | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 37 |
| 6 | Zurich | 27 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 37 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 25 | -2 | 34 |
| 7 | St. Gallen | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 35 | 37 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 20 | -2 | 33 |
| 8 | Luzern | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 49 | 49 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 20 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 29 | 0 | 32 |
| 9 | Vaduz | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 26 | 43 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -17 | 29 |
| 10 | Sion | 27 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 30 | 43 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 21 | -13 | 26 |
