Home advantage could prove decisive in Luzern - Sion battle

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 13.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Luzern are willing to set aside the league table ahead of this fixture versus Sion. Here's all you need to know pre-match!

Insights:
  • Luzern have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Super League
  • Sion have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Super League

There have been little to rest for the host team, as they featured in a Swiss Cup match only four days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Biel-Bienne.

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Luzern form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Luzern have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 7 losses from their games here at swissporarena. The home stadium (swissporarena) is supposed to be a fortress, but for Luzern it's been a house of straw as the last four games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?

Heartbreak before that as Luzern lost 1-2 at Lugano's place.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Luzern have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won four times, drawn three and lost three.

Luzern has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Luzern have conceded 21 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Sion form and stats

Sion have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Super League, after 2-3-5 (10 played).

Sion are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 3-3 draw at Basel (placed 2nd). Midfielder Grgić was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 9.14. Grgić scored two goals, served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 31 successful passes (of 38 total).

Before that, Sion secured a home win against Grasshopper with the score 2-0.

Sion are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, five draws and five defeats. From a total of ten matches.

The travelling fans enjoy Sion's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 10 league matches away. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Sion concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

The sides have played each other previously this season, with the final score Luzern - Sion 0-1 logged in the official records. Tasar (Luzern) was shown a red card when these teams last met. Luzern-Sion H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Luzern four wins, Sion three wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

SionF. Stojilkovic
F. Stojilkovic
5 goals
LuzernF. Ugrinic
F. Ugrinic
4 goals
SionA. Grgic
A. Grgic
4 goals

Luzern missing players

Sion missing players

Luzern Sion
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 3 10 20
1 1 0 Won W 0 2 7
8 2 0 Drew D 2 3 4
11 7 2 Lost L 1 5 9
21 11 2 Scored S 3 15 29
41 21 5 Conceded C 5 27 38
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
95% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 80%
50% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 60% 50%
40% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 50% 40%
15% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 25%
75% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 65%
5% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 20%
20% 30% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 10% 15%
 
4.8 5.4 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 3.6 3.8
4.5 3.6 2 Corners against (avg) C A 8.3 7.4 6.2
2.8 3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.1 1.9
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.4 13.5 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 8.5 9.2
5 5.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3.8 4.2
21% 19% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 39% 34%
 
12.1 12.5 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 15.3 15.5 12.8
5.3 5.3 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 6.5 5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Luzern have the fewest points (5) at home in Super League
  • Luzern have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Super League
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Super League
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sion have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sion have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Super League
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (27) away in Super League
  • Sion have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Super League
  • Sion 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 20 14 4 2 47 27 10 8 2 0 26 10 10 6 2 2 21 17 20 46
2 Basel 20 9 10 1 44 22 10 4 5 1 24 12 10 5 5 0 20 10 22 37
3 Young Boys 20 10 6 4 47 25 10 6 3 1 20 11 10 4 3 3 27 14 22 36
4 Lugano 20 10 3 7 27 26 10 6 2 2 15 13 10 4 1 5 12 13 1 33
5 Servette 20 8 4 8 33 34 10 4 2 4 18 19 10 4 2 4 15 15 -1 28
6 Sion 20 7 4 9 29 38 10 5 1 4 14 11 10 2 3 5 15 27 -9 25
7 Grasshopper 20 5 8 7 33 31 10 3 4 3 18 16 10 2 4 4 15 15 2 23
8 St. Gallen 20 5 5 10 30 43 10 2 5 3 15 19 10 3 0 7 15 24 -13 20
9 Lausanne Sport 20 2 6 12 19 43 10 1 3 6 11 26 10 1 3 6 8 17 -24 12
10 Luzern 20 1 8 11 21 41 10 1 2 7 11 21 10 0 6 4 10 20 -20 11

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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.