The visiting Basel side should be favourites in this visit to Luzern, as the away team holds a 7 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
- Luzern has the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super League
- Basel has the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League
It's no vacation for neither Luzern nor Basel 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.
Luzern form and stats
Luzern have played 6 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-4-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The fans are hoping that Luzern will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Super League game against Lausanne Sport (placed 6th). In the match before that, Luzern hosted Zürich and drew the game 0-0.
This is expected to be a close game, with Luzern perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Luzern as a small favourite), we find three games. Luzern has won zero of these, drawn one and lost two.
Luzern have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at swissporarena with 9 goals in 6 league matches. Luzern have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Basel form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Basel so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-4 (win-draw-lose).
The attacking players of Basel have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 208 minutes.
Basel's last game was the home draw against St. Gallen (0-0). The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Young Boys.
Goalkeeper Heinz Lindner made a total of nine saves, making him a hero against St. Gallen. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Basel in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Basel, one draw and one defeat.
Basel have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 6 goals have been scored. Basel have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Basel - Luzern 3-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Luzern, three draws and five wins for Basel. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  D. Sorgić 5 goals |   A. Mendonça Cabral 5 goals |  V. Stocker 3 goals |
Luzern missing players
Basel missing players
| Luzern | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 19 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| 21 | 8 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 69% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 46% |
| 38% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 15% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 77% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 46% |
| 15% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 17% | 23% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 38% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | 15.3 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.5 | 8.5 | 10.7 |
| 5.8 | 6.3 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
| 25% | 24% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 27% | 31% |
- Basel has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Super League
- Basel has the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League
- Basel haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Luzern has the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super League
- Luzern has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
- Luzern has the most scored goals in the second half (13) 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 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 25 |
| 2 | Basel | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | St. Gallen | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 |
| 4 | Zürich | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 18 |
| 5 | Lugano | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Lausanne Sport | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 18 |
| 7 | Servette | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 18 |
| 8 | Luzern | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 13 |
| 9 | Sion | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -6 | 11 |
| 10 | Vaduz | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -12 | 6 |