Luzern vs Young Boys preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Thu 19.May
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Luzern have not won many points this league season. Can the team get some sugar when Young Boys stop by swissporarena?

Insights:
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (35) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (52) in Super League

Relegation threatens Luzern who should definitely be looking for some points here. Young Boys are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table. Luzern's stadium, swissporarena, has a grass surface. Young Boys have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Young Boys when playing on grass; 18 wins, 14 draws and 13 losses from 45 matches. They have scored 80 goals in these games and conceded 58.

Both participants have had time to rest since their last game. Let's wish for an animated fixture!

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Luzern form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for Luzern at their home stadium (swissporarena) is 6 wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats. There’s a good atmosphere here at swissporarena after three straight home wins.

Happy days for Luzern in their previous game, a fixture away at Sion (placed 8th) that ended with a 3-1 victory. Dräger was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.04 out of 10. The defender Dräger scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 3 of 7 duels.

Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against Servette.

There will be little rest for Luzern after this match as they are travelling to Zurich for a Super League game in only three days.

Luzern has scored 25 league goals at home this season, in 17 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 27 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. When Luzern hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Grasshopper, Lausanne Sport and Sion), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

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Young Boys form and stats

5-6-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Young Boys, who have the most scored goals (37) away in Super League, in their Super League matches away.

Young Boys had fun at their own home (swissporarena) last time out, beating St. Gallen 4-1. Elia (2), Fassnacht and Kanga scored. Attacker Elia got a player rating of 8.75 in the game. "Man of the match" Elia scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Lugano wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.

After this away game Young Boys return home for a Super League game against Grasshopper. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Young Boys have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 37 goals from 17 away matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Young Boys struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 27 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The previous H2H encounter ended Young Boys - Luzern 2-2, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Luzern victory, three draws and six Young Boys wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
22 goals
Young BoysC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
10 goals
Young BoysA. Kanga
A. Kanga
10 goals

Luzern missing players

Young Boys missing players

Luzern Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
34 17 4 Played P 6 17 34
8 6 0 Won W 2 5 15
12 3 0 Drew D 3 6 11
14 8 4 Lost L 1 6 8
47 25 2 Scored S 13 37 75
60 27 11 Conceded C 8 27 48
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
91% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 82% 85%
59% 53% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 71% 74%
44% 41% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 59% 59%
15% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 29% 24%
68% 47% 50% BTTS BTTS 83% 71% 76%
15% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 15%
18% 24% 50% Failed to Score F T 17% 18% 12%
 
5.1 5.3 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 6.6 7.1
5 4.1 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.2 3 3.4
2.5 2.8 3.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.5 2.5
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 5
 
12.9 13.5 14 Shots (avg) S ( 15.7 12.8 14.6
5.4 5.8 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.3 5.8 6.2
26% 25% 9% Goal Efficiency G E 34% 38% 35%
 
11.6 11.6 15 Shots against (avg) S A 8.7 8.7 8
4.9 4.5 6.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 3.7 3.4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (35) in Super League
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (37) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (52) in Super League
  • Young Boys have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Young Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 34 23 7 4 75 41 17 12 4 1 43 20 17 11 3 3 32 21 34 76
2 Basel 34 14 16 4 68 40 17 7 8 2 37 19 17 7 8 2 31 21 28 58
3 Young Boys 34 15 11 8 75 48 17 10 5 2 38 21 17 5 6 6 37 27 27 56
4 Lugano 34 15 6 13 47 51 17 9 3 5 25 23 17 6 3 8 22 28 -4 51
5 St. Gallen 34 13 8 13 62 60 17 6 7 4 32 27 17 7 1 9 30 33 2 47
6 Servette 34 12 6 16 47 63 17 7 4 6 25 26 17 5 2 10 22 37 -16 42
7 Grasshopper 34 8 13 13 51 53 17 4 6 7 30 32 17 4 7 6 21 21 -2 37
8 Sion 34 10 7 17 41 63 17 6 3 8 18 23 17 4 4 9 23 40 -22 37
9 Luzern 34 8 12 14 47 60 17 6 3 8 25 27 17 2 9 6 22 33 -13 36
10 Lausanne Sport 34 4 10 20 36 70 17 3 5 9 22 36 17 1 5 11 14 34 -34 22

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.