Luzern favourites for feisty fight facing Lugano

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 22.October
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Super League: Luzern are 3 points behind Lugano, but are inspired to go full force. Let's get started!

Insights:
  • All of Luzern's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Lugano's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

It's no vacation for neither Luzern nor Lugano 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.

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Luzern form and stats

Luzern have played 5 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The home followers saw a 3-3 draw versus St. Gallen last time out and are looking for a victory here. A goal frenzy last time out for Luzern, with a total of 6 goals in the match against St. Gallen. Fun stuff to watch! Midfielder Dräger was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.15 (out of ten) in that game. Dräger scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Heartbreak before that as Luzern lost 0-2 at Sion's place.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Luzern handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Luzern are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 5 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Luzern defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Lugano form and stats

3-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Lugano in their Super League matches away.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home loss versus Young Boys with 1-4 on the scoreboard. That loss was their first after three consecutive league rounds winning points. Ziegler was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.6. The defender Ziegler scored one goal, hit three key passes and won 6 of 10 duels.

Before that, Lugano travelled to St. Gallen and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

We have checked recent matches where Lugano have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were 3 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats.

Lugano are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 10 times in 6 away games so far. As opposed to that, Lugano have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved encountered each other before this match year: Lugano - Luzern 1-2. Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Luzern won three, Lugano triumphed in four and we saw three draws. nine games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LuganoŽ. Celar
Ž. Celar
5 goals
LuzernM. Meyer
M. Meyer
4 goals
LuzernM. Burch
M. Burch
2 goals

Luzern missing players

Lugano missing players

Luzern Lugano
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 2 Played P 3 6 12
3 1 0 Won W 3 3 5
4 2 2 Drew D 0 1 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 2 6
17 7 4 Scored S 8 10 18
16 8 4 Conceded C 2 8 20
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
91% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
45% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 67%
27% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 17% 33%
27% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 33%
55% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 67%
27% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 17% 25%
27% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 8%
 
5.3 6.8 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.5 4.7
5.5 6.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.2 4.2
2.9 3.6 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 1.9
5 4 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.1 14.4 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11.8 12.2
5.5 5.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.7 4.7
28% 24% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 36% 32%
 
12.3 13 13.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.3 13.5 13.3
5.3 5 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 5 5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Lugano's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Luzern's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Luzern have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 Young Boys 12 8 3 1 28 7 5 4 1 0 13 2 7 4 2 1 15 5 21 27
2 Servette 11 5 4 2 12 9 6 4 2 0 9 4 5 1 2 2 3 5 3 19
3 Sion 12 5 3 4 19 19 6 2 2 2 7 9 6 3 1 2 12 10 0 18
4 St. Gallen 12 5 2 5 23 19 6 4 1 1 12 5 6 1 1 4 11 14 4 17
5 Lugano 12 5 1 6 18 20 6 2 0 4 8 12 6 3 1 2 10 8 -2 16
6 Grasshopper 11 3 5 3 19 21 5 3 2 0 13 8 6 0 3 3 6 13 -2 14
7 Basel 10 3 4 3 15 12 5 2 2 1 9 6 5 1 2 2 6 6 3 13
8 Luzern 11 3 4 4 17 16 5 1 2 2 7 8 6 2 2 2 10 8 1 13
9 Winterthur 12 3 3 6 9 24 7 2 2 3 6 17 5 1 1 3 3 7 -15 12
10 Zurich 11 0 5 6 7 20 6 0 3 3 3 9 5 0 2 3 4 11 -13 5

Read more about Super League

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.