Evenly matched teams: Luzern vs Zürich match preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 15.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

In total; 27 league matches are played and Luzern are 6 points on top of Zürich. How will it end?

Insights:
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League

This promises to be an action-packed match with lots of action and energy as both contenders are well recovered since they last played a game. Bring it on!

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Luzern form and stats

3-5-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Luzern so far this season. Luzern are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at swissporarena, having lost their two previous games here.

It's back home for Luzern, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Winterthur away with the result 2-1. Sorgić and Chader found the net in that victory. Finally, a league victory after three games without. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Frick when Sorgić scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 57th minute. Frýdek, defender, was given a rating of 8.45/10 in that game, top of the team. Frýdek served one assist, hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.

Preceding that match was the home game against Sion that was lost 1-2.

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 13 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 3 and lost 5.

Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 10 most recent league games highlights that 8 of them had at least one goal from each side.

The Luzern fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 13 matches. 18 goals have been conceded.

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Zürich form and stats

As the visiting team in Super League matches, Zürich have produced an overall stat of 3-5-5 so far.

Zürich delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Basel (placed 6th) in their previous fixture. Midfielder Conde was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.82. Conde scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 5 of 7 times.

Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to St. Gallen.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Zürich playing away and similar expectations, we found 6 relevant matches. Results were 2 Zürich wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored in 9 of this club's latest 12 league matches.

The attacking power of Zürich when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 13 league matches away. Zürich's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 20 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The newest logged match between these squads is the Zürich - Luzern 2-1 played previously this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Luzern three wins, three draws and Zürich four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ZürichT. Aiyegun
T. Aiyegun
11 goals
LuzernM. Meyer
M. Meyer
9 goals
ZürichJ. Okita
J. Okita
6 goals

Luzern missing players

Zürich missing players

Luzern Zürich
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
26 13 5 Played P 3 13 27
8 3 2 Won W 0 3 6
9 5 2 Drew D 1 5 12
9 5 1 Lost L 2 5 9
38 16 6 Scored S 0 12 28
38 18 4 Conceded C 4 20 40
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 92% 85%
88% 85% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 77% 74%
54% 38% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 44%
31% 23% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 31% 30%
15% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 15%
65% 62% 60% BTTS BTTS 0% 46% 56%
15% 15% 40% Clean Sheets C S 33% 23% 26%
23% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 38% 33%
 
6.2 7.4 8.6 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 5 4.4
5.2 5.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.8 5.1
2.9 3.2 3.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.3 3.9 2.9
8 7 5 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
13.3 14.2 15 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 11 11.1
5.3 5.2 5.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 4 3.7
28% 24% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 23% 28%
 
12.2 11.6 10.2 Shots against (avg) S A 10.7 10.5 9.6
5.1 4.8 3.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.3 4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League

  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 27 16 9 2 62 19 14 11 3 0 40 7 13 5 6 2 22 12 43 57
2 Servette 27 9 13 5 34 36 13 6 6 1 18 14 14 3 7 4 16 22 -2 40
3 St. Gallen 27 9 9 9 49 39 13 6 6 1 24 13 14 3 3 8 25 26 10 36
4 Luzern 27 9 9 9 41 38 13 3 5 5 16 18 14 6 4 4 25 20 3 36
5 Lugano 27 9 9 9 40 39 14 5 5 4 21 19 13 4 4 5 19 20 1 36
6 Basel 27 8 11 8 36 32 13 5 6 2 22 14 14 3 5 6 14 18 4 35
7 Grasshopper 27 9 7 11 40 44 13 7 2 4 24 20 14 2 5 7 16 24 -4 34
8 Zürich 27 6 12 9 28 40 14 3 7 4 16 20 13 3 5 5 12 20 -12 30
9 Sion 27 6 9 12 34 52 14 2 4 8 15 30 13 4 5 4 19 22 -18 27
10 Winterthur 27 6 8 13 23 48 14 5 4 5 13 23 13 1 4 8 10 25 -25 26

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.