Servette will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind St. Gallen.
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.
Servette form and stats
Servette have played 14 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 7-5-2 (wins-draws-losses).
The Servette supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Luzern in Super League and win 2-0. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Zurich (0-2).
This is expected to be a close game, with Servette perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Servette as a small favourite), we find one game. Servette has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager A. Geiger will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Young Boys in only three days.
The Servette fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 21 goals in 14 league matches. Servette have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
St. Gallen form and stats
St. Gallen, who have the most points (29) away in Super League, have an excellent away record in the Super League so far with 9-2-3 from 14 games.
Gallen are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 3-3 draw at Lugano (placed 7th). Before that, Gallen secured a home win against Sion with the score 2-1.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Gallen, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Gallen playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were three St. Gallen wins, two draws and zero defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as St. Gallen are hosting Luzern in the Super League only four days away.
Gallen have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 31 goals from 14 away matches. 20 goals have been conceded by Gallen in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: St. Gallen - Servette 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: zero - one - nine (Servette wins - draws - St. Gallen wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Itten 13 goals | E. Demirović 13 goals |  J. Quintillà Guasch 11 goals |
Servette missing players
St. Gallen missing players
| Servette | St. Gallen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 14 | 29 |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 9 | 18 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 45 | 21 | 6 | Scored | S | 5 | 31 | 63 |
| 30 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 20 | 43 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 79% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 93% | 90% |
| 48% | 36% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 86% | 83% |
| 31% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | 52% |
| 7% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 31% |
| 55% | 43% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 93% | 76% |
| 31% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 21% | 21% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 7% | 14% |
| 5.2 | 5.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8.7 | 5.8 | 6.8 |
| 5.6 | 5 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| 2.2 | 1.8 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.7 | 3 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 377 | 195 | 38 | Total Shots | T S | 45 | 203 | 432 |
| 144 | 78 | 19 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 86 | 172 |
| 31% | 27% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 36% | 37% |
- Servette has the fewest conceded goals (9) at home
- Servette has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14)
- Servette have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- St. Gallen has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- St. Gallen has the fewest matches under the total-line (8)
- St. Gallen has the most matches over the total-line (18)
- St. Gallen has the most points (29) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals (31) away
- St. Gallen has the most scored goals in the first half (32)
- St. Gallen has the the best goal difference (+11) 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 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 | Young Boys | 29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 63 | 35 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 28 | 58 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 29 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 63 | 43 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 20 | 20 | 58 |
| 3 | Basel | 29 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 56 | 30 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 19 | 26 | 49 |
| 4 | Servette | 29 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 45 | 30 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 44 |
| 5 | Zurich | 29 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 40 | 52 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 28 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 24 | -12 | 42 |
| 6 | Luzern | 29 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 34 | 37 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 20 | -3 | 41 |
| 7 | Lugano | 29 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 36 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 21 | -4 | 34 |
| 8 | Sion | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 32 | 50 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 25 | -18 | 27 |
| 9 | Thun | 29 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 30 | 60 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 33 | -30 | 25 |
| 10 | Neuchatel Xamax | 29 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 30 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 28 | -22 | 23 |