Luzern vs Young Boys betting preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Date: Sat 01.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Struggling Luzern will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Young Boys in the upcoming league round. It’s 7th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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.

This pitch has grass, which is not Young Boys's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Young Boys have performed like this: Played 34 matches resulting in 19 wins, 7 draws and 8 defeats with the goal stats 69-49 (scored/conceded).

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Luzern form and stats

Luzern have collected 11 points from their Super League home games so far after 3-2-4.

Luzern enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Zurich's place. The match ended 3-2 with Ryder Matos, Francesco Margiotta and Idriz Voca scoring. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Basel in a game that was won 2-1.

Luzern has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Luzern have conceded 14 from these games.

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Young Boys form and stats

Playing away, Young Boys have won 4 games, drawn 3 and suffered 2 defeats in the Super League this season.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Young Boys goalkeeper David von Ballmoos is eager to challenge this, with his 312 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Young Boys won their last game, 2-0 versus Basel played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Lugano that ended 0-0.

The travelling fans enjoy Young Boys's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 9 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Young Boys have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Young Boys - Luzern 1-0, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Luzern victories, 1 draw and 7 Young Boys wins. 8 of these games ended with three goals or more, 2 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
16 goals
LuzernI. Ndiaye
I. Ndiaye
5 goals
LuzernP. Schürpf
P. Schürpf
4 goals

Luzern missing players

Young Boys missing players

Luzern Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 9 19
6 3 1 Won W 2 4 12
3 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
10 4 1 Lost L 0 2 2
20 11 3 Scored S 6 15 41
29 14 5 Conceded C 4 14 24
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
79% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 84%
53% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 67% 58%
21% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 44% 47%
11% 11% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 22% 32%
47% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 44% 53%
21% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 37%
37% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 16%
 
6.1 7.3 3 Corners For (avg) C F 5.7 6.2 6.4
5.5 4.8 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 4.7 4 4.2
2.8 2.7 4.5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.2 1.9
2 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
237 138 20 Total Shots T S 55 119 279
88 52 10 Shots on Target S O 15 40 97
23% 21% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 38% 42%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Luzern has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2)
  • Luzern have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Luzern have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Young Boys has the most points from losing position (11)
  • Young Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Young Boys have scored more than double the goals of Luzern.

  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 19 12 5 2 41 24 10 8 2 0 26 10 9 4 3 2 15 14 17 41
2 St. Gallen 19 12 2 5 45 26 10 6 1 3 23 13 9 6 1 2 22 13 19 38
3 Basel 19 11 3 5 41 19 9 7 1 1 24 6 10 4 2 4 17 13 22 36
4 Servette 19 8 6 5 30 19 9 4 3 2 11 6 10 4 3 3 19 13 11 30
5 Zurich 19 9 3 7 25 35 10 5 1 4 18 23 9 4 2 3 7 12 -10 30
6 Lugano 19 5 6 8 19 22 9 1 4 4 3 9 10 4 2 4 16 13 -3 21
7 Luzern 19 6 3 10 20 29 9 3 2 4 11 14 10 3 1 6 9 15 -9 21
8 Sion 19 6 3 10 26 37 9 3 2 4 15 17 10 3 1 6 11 20 -11 21
9 Neuchâtel Xamax 19 2 8 9 21 34 10 1 3 6 10 17 9 1 5 3 11 17 -13 14
10 Thun 19 3 3 13 18 41 10 1 2 7 8 22 9 2 1 6 10 19 -23 12

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.