Servette will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Basel.
Servette have less rest than Basel in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Super League game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Young Boys.
Basel are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.
Servette form and stats
When playing at home in the Super League, Servette have managed 7 wins, 6 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 15 games.
Servette are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-4 away versus Young Boys. Preceding that game was the home draw versus St. Gallen that ended 1-1.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
There will be little rest for Servette after this match as they are travelling to Thun for a Super League game in only three days.
Servette has scored 22 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. Servette are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade de Genève in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 15 matches.
Basel form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the the best goal difference (+31) in Super League, on their Super League travels is 6 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Basel are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Before that, Basel secured a home win against Young Boys with the score 3-2.
As mentioned above, Basel was the only team on the pitch versus Zürich in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
The schedule is very tough for Basel now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Super League game at St. Gallen is waiting in only three days.
The travelling fans enjoy Basel's attacking play in away games, having scored 25 goals in 15 league matches away. As opposed to that, Basel have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Servette and Basel have met before this season: Basel - Servette 2-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Servette victories, one draw and seven Basel wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  F. Frei 9 goals |
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| Servette | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 15 | 31 |
| 11 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 48 | 22 | 6 | Scored | S | 8 | 25 | 63 |
| 35 | 10 | 4 | Conceded | C | 7 | 19 | 32 |
| 94% | 87% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 97% |
| 81% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 87% | 90% |
| 48% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 32% | 13% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 27% | 35% |
| 10% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 20% | 13% |
| 58% | 47% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 53% | 52% |
| 29% | 47% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 27% | 35% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 27% | 16% |
| 5.3 | 5.6 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.3 | 5.2 |
| 5.5 | 4.9 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 2.2 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 406 | 208 | 51 | Total Shots | T S | 50 | 187 | 431 |
| 151 | 83 | 23 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 64 | 166 |
| 32% | 27% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 39% | 38% |
- Basel has the fewest conceded goals (19) away
- Basel has the fewest conceded goals (32)
- Basel has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (14)
- Basel has the the best goal difference (+31)
- Basel have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Servette has the fewest conceded goals (10) at home
- Servette has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (17)
- Servette has the most matches under the total-line (17)
- Servette have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
| 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 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 69 | 40 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 61 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 64 | 44 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 21 | 20 | 59 |
| 3 | Basel | 31 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 63 | 32 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 19 | 31 | 55 |
| 4 | Servette | 31 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 48 | 35 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 25 | 13 | 45 |
| 5 | Luzern | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 37 | 40 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 20 | -3 | 42 |
| 6 | Zürich | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 40 | 56 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 28 | -16 | 42 |
| 7 | Lugano | 31 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 36 | 40 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 24 | -4 | 36 |
| 8 | Thun | 31 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 61 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 34 | -27 | 29 |
| 9 | Sion | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 32 | 50 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 25 | -18 | 27 |
| 10 | Neuchatel Xamax | 30 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 30 | 55 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 31 | -25 | 23 |