The visiting St. Gallen side should be favourites in this visit to Neuchâtel Xamax, as the away team holds a 26 point advantage from their 23 league games this season.
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike St. Gallen's home stadium. The visitors last ten games on artifical turf have ended in 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses.
Neuchâtel Xamax form and stats
With 1 Super League win, 3 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Neuchâtel Xamax are certainly not brimming with confidence. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Neuchâtel Xamax, their manager J. Magnin and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
An away draw last time out for Neuchâtel Xamax, facing Zurich in a game that ended 1-1. In the game before, an away victory match versus Sion with a 2-1 scoreline.
Neuchâtel Xamax have scored 10 league goals here from 11 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Neuchâtel Xamax defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
St. Gallen form and stats
The away team, who have the most scored goals (51) in Super League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 7 wins, 1 draw and only 3 losses in the Super League.
St. Gallen's last game was the home draw against Young Boys (3-3). Prior to that match, the St. Gallen manager P. Zeidler faced defeat when travelling to Luzern and losing 0-1.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Young Boys was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, St. Gallen are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, St. Gallen have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was St. Gallen - Neuchâtel Xamax 4-1, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Neuchâtel Xamax wins - draws - St. Gallen wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Quintillà Guasch 9 goals | C. Itten 9 goals | E. Demirović 9 goals |
Neuchâtel Xamax missing players
St. Gallen missing players
| Neuchâtel Xamax | St. Gallen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 9 | 24 | 51 |
| 38 | 18 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 15 | 31 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 78% | 73% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 91% | 87% |
| 48% | 45% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 82% | 78% |
| 35% | 27% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 36% | 52% |
| 13% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 27% | 30% |
| 70% | 55% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 91% | 74% |
| 9% | 9% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 22% | 36% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 9% | 13% |
| 4.6 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5.5 | 6.2 |
| 5.7 | 5.3 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 2.9 | 2.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 261 | 137 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 44 | 164 | 338 |
| 94 | 47 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 22 | 73 | 144 |
| 27% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 33% | 35% |
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest clean sheets (2)
- Neuchâtel Xamax has the fewest points (6) at home
- Neuchâtel Xamax haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Gallen has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- St. Gallen has the fewest matches under the total-line (6)
- St. Gallen has the most points (22) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals (24) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals (51)
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals in the first half (23)
- St. Gallen has the the best goal difference (+9) away
- St. Gallen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Gallen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Gallen have scored more than double the goals of Neuchâtel Xamax.
- St. Gallen 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 | St. Gallen | 23 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 51 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 45 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 45 |
| 3 | Basel | 23 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 48 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 24 | 40 |
| 4 | Servette | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 37 |
| 5 | Zurich | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 45 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 32 |
| 6 | Luzern | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -5 | 31 |
| 7 | Lugano | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Sion | 23 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 28 | 41 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -13 | 23 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 19 |
| 10 | Thun | 23 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -23 | 19 |