Super League match prediction and preview for Servette vs Basel clash

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 06.March
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Genève (28833 seats)

Servette will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind Basel.

Insights:
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Basel have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Servette nor Basel as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Servette form and stats

Servette have played 11 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-6-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Servette are returning here after visiting St. Gallen in a Super League game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Grejohn Kyei scored the goal(s). Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Zurich.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Servette handle that role? We have found twelve games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, five draws and one defeat.

A decent goal production from Servette in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Basel form and stats

Playing away, Basel have won 5 games, drawn 0 and suffered 6 defeats in the Super League this season. Basel seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

There were no winners in Basel's previous match, a Super League home game that ended 1-1 vs Young Boys (placed 1st). It was a defeat before that one as the away game against St. Gallen wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.

Basel are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and five defeats. From a total of six matches.

Basel are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 11 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Basel have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Basel - Servette 1-0. Last ten meetings between the teams: Servette won two, Basel won six and two draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BaselA. Mendonça Cabral
A. Mendonça Cabral
12 goals
ServetteG. Kyei
G. Kyei
9 goals
BaselP. Kasami
P. Kasami
8 goals

Servette missing players

Basel missing players

Servette Basel
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 3 11 23
8 4 0 Won W 1 5 9
7 6 2 Drew D 0 0 6
8 1 0 Lost L 2 6 8
26 17 2 Scored S 3 15 33
29 13 2 Conceded C 4 15 33
96% 91% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
74% 82% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 73% 74%
39% 45% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 57%
22% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 36% 43%
4% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 17%
57% 82% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 55% 61%
22% 18% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 17%
26% 9% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 36% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.8
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.6 10.3 5.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 8.3 10.2
4 4.2 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.5 4.3
28% 37% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 39% 33%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Basel have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Super League
  • Basel haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 Young Boys 23 15 7 1 41 18 11 8 2 1 19 10 12 7 5 0 22 8 23 52
2 Basel 23 9 6 8 33 33 12 4 6 2 18 18 11 5 0 6 15 15 0 33
3 St. Gallen 23 8 7 8 27 26 12 5 2 5 15 14 11 3 5 3 12 12 1 31
4 Servette 23 8 7 8 26 29 11 4 6 1 17 13 12 4 1 7 9 16 -3 31
5 Lausanne Sport 23 8 6 9 30 28 11 6 0 5 17 12 12 2 6 4 13 16 2 30
6 Zurich 22 8 5 9 33 31 11 4 3 4 14 11 11 4 2 5 19 20 2 29
7 Lugano 22 5 12 5 23 26 11 3 4 4 11 14 11 2 8 1 12 12 -3 27
8 Luzern 22 6 7 9 37 35 11 3 6 2 20 13 11 3 1 7 17 22 2 25
9 Sion 22 4 10 8 25 33 11 3 5 3 14 14 11 1 5 5 11 19 -8 22
10 Vaduz 23 5 7 11 21 37 12 3 3 6 12 20 11 2 4 5 9 17 -16 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.