Super League match preview and statistics: Luzern fight Zürich

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Wed 16.December
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: swissporarena (16490 seats)

Season ticket holders at swissporarena haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Luzern languishing in the 7th position so far. The guesting Zürich will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Luzern has the most conceded goals (19) in Super League
  • Zürich has the most scored goals (19) in Super League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Luzern form and stats

Overall Super League stats at home this season for Luzern, who have the most conceded goals (19) in Super League, are 1-3-1 (wins-draw-losses).

A strong away win for Luzern against Sion the last match, as Dejan Sorgic and Varol Tasar were on target. Preceding that match was a defeat to Young Boys (2-3).

The victory against Sion came after Varol Tasar's winning goal. The Luzern manager F. Celestini was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 80th minute.

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 three matches with the results: Won zero, drawn one and lost two.

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

A decent goal production from Luzern in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 5 league matches. 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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Zürich form and stats

As the visiting team in Super League matches, Zürich, who have the most scored goals (19) in Super League, have produced an overall stat of 2-1-3 so far.

Zürich play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Lugano (placed 5th). A 1-2 loss hosting St. Gallen before that.

Blaž Kramer came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Lugano last time out, making the manager L. Magnin feel like a tactical genius.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Zürich in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Zürich, four draws and two defeats.

After this away game Zürich return home for a Super League game against Servette. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Zürich has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 6 games. Zürich struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Zürich - Luzern 2-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Luzern victories, two draws and four Zürich wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LuzernD. Sorgić
D. Sorgić
5 goals
ZürichB. Kololli
B. Kololli
4 goals
ZürichA. Marchesano
A. Marchesano
3 goals

Luzern missing players

Zürich missing players

Luzern Zürich
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 0 Played P 3 6 11
3 1 0 Won W 1 2 5
3 3 0 Drew D 1 1 2
5 1 0 Lost L 1 3 4
18 9 0 Scored S 6 9 19
19 8 0 Conceded C 7 11 15
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 82%
73% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 73%
45% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 45%
18% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 9%
82% 80% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 55%
9% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 36%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 17% 9%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.7 2.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.7 2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
12.2 13.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11 11.3
6.1 6.6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 5 4.7
27% 27% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 30% 37%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Luzern's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Luzern has the most conceded goals (19) in Super League
  • Luzern has the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super League
  • Luzern has the most scored goals in the second half (13) in Super League
  • Luzern have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Zürich has the most scored goals (19) in Super League
  • Zürich have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Zürich 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 Young Boys 10 6 3 1 14 7 6 4 1 1 8 5 4 2 2 0 6 2 7 21
2 Basel 11 6 1 4 18 13 5 4 1 0 12 7 6 2 0 4 6 6 5 19
3 St. Gallen 10 5 3 2 11 9 4 2 1 1 5 5 6 3 2 1 6 4 2 18
4 Zürich 11 5 2 4 19 15 5 3 1 1 10 4 6 2 1 3 9 11 4 17
5 Lugano 9 4 4 1 11 8 5 3 1 1 6 4 4 1 3 0 5 4 3 16
6 Servette 11 4 2 5 10 12 5 2 2 1 5 5 6 2 0 4 5 7 -2 14
7 Luzern 11 3 3 5 18 19 5 1 3 1 9 8 6 2 0 4 9 11 -1 12
8 Lausanne Sport 11 3 3 5 14 16 6 3 0 3 9 6 5 0 3 2 5 10 -2 12
9 Sion 10 1 4 5 10 17 5 1 3 1 5 4 5 0 1 4 5 13 -7 7
10 Vaduz 10 1 3 6 9 18 6 1 1 4 6 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 -9 6

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.