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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 03.April
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Luzern have some catching up to do from their 9th position, and the task starts versus Lugano. Read more!

Insights:
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in Super League
  • Lugano have the fewest conceded goals (17) away in Super League

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.

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Luzern form and stats

Luzern's results here at swissporarena in the Super League have been very modest with 3 victories, 2 draws and 8 defeats.

Luzern lost their last game at St. Gallen (placed 6th) after a 2-3 scoreline. Ugrinic (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.74/10. Ugrinic served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting St. Gallen (2-3).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Luzern have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won two, drawn one and lost one.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 23 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Lugano form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (17) away in Super League, on their Super League travels is 6 wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats. Lugano has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

The followers enjoyed Lugano's previous match versus Lausanne Sport (placed 10th), a 3-1 win played at home. The attacker Bottani got a match rating of 8.14 in that game. Bottani scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 34 successful passes (of 41 total).

Before that, Lugano secured a home win against Lausanne Sport with the score 3-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Lugano in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Lugano, two draws and two defeats.

Lugano have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 13 away games in the league. 17 goals have been conceded by Lugano in these games.

Head 2 Head

Lugano - Luzern 2-1 was the product when these two squads last did battle, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Luzern two wins, two draws and Lugano six victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LuganoM. Bottani
M. Bottani
6 goals
LuganoŽ. Celar
Ž. Celar
6 goals
LuzernF. Ugrinic
F. Ugrinic
4 goals

Luzern missing players

Lugano missing players

Luzern Lugano
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 13 2 Played P 5 13 27
4 3 1 Won W 4 6 14
10 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
13 8 1 Lost L 1 6 10
30 13 2 Scored S 10 17 37
50 23 2 Conceded C 4 17 35
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 77% 89%
48% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 46% 44%
37% 31% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 23% 22%
15% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 15% 11%
70% 46% 0% BTTS BTTS 40% 38% 44%
11% 23% 50% Clean Sheets C S 60% 31% 26%
19% 31% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 31% 30%
 
4.6 5.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 4.2 4
4.9 3.8 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.4 5.8 4.9
2.5 2.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.2 2.4
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.8 13.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 8.2 10.4
4.9 5.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 2.9 3.8
23% 19% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 62% 45% 36%
 
11.8 12 13 Shots against (avg) S A 8.8 11.7 11.3
5 4.9 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.8 4.5 4.4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Lugano have the fewest conceded goals (17) away in Super League
  • Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Luzern have the fewest scored goals (13) at home in Super League
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (30) in Super League
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zurich 27 19 5 3 61 34 13 10 2 1 33 15 14 9 3 2 28 19 27 62
2 Basel 27 13 11 3 60 33 13 6 6 1 31 14 14 7 5 2 29 19 27 50
3 Young Boys 27 12 9 6 60 36 14 8 4 2 29 17 13 4 5 4 31 19 24 45
4 Lugano 27 14 3 10 37 35 14 8 2 4 20 18 13 6 1 6 17 17 2 45
5 Servette 27 11 5 11 42 47 13 6 3 4 22 21 14 5 2 7 20 26 -5 38
6 St. Gallen 27 10 7 10 48 49 14 5 6 3 26 23 13 5 1 7 22 26 -1 37
7 Sion 27 8 6 13 34 49 13 6 2 5 16 15 14 2 4 8 18 34 -15 30
8 Grasshopper 27 6 9 12 42 46 14 3 5 6 25 28 13 3 4 6 17 18 -4 27
9 Luzern 27 4 10 13 30 50 13 3 2 8 13 23 14 1 8 5 17 27 -20 22
10 Lausanne Sport 27 2 7 18 23 58 14 1 4 9 14 34 13 1 3 9 9 24 -35 13

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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.