Servette vs St. Gallen: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Fri 21.May
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Genève (28833 seats)

Servette are chasing the top positions while St. Gallen are more concerned with avoiding relegation. Who will get the points?

Insights:
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Gallen have the fewest points (15) away in Super League

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

Servette are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For St. Gallen most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Servette form and stats

Servette have collected 25 points from their Super League home games so far after 6-7-4.

Servette are returning here after visiting Vaduz in a Super League game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Miroslav Stevanović, Boubacar Fofana and Alex Schalk scored the goal(s). Nobody expected Servette to beat Vaduz in the last match, but sometimes David beats Goliath. The attacker Miroslav Stevanović was "man of the match" for Servette with a rating of 8.42/10. Stevanović scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit one key pass.

Preceding that match was the home game against Lausanne Sport that was lost 1-4.

A decent goal production from Servette in their home games so far, with 27 goals from 17 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Servette defense is not exactly impregnable. 27 goals conceded from 17 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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St. Gallen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for St. Gallen, who have the fewest points (15) away in Super League, so far with only 15 points returning home. The records show 3-6-8 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in eleven away games in a row.

Impressive finishing from Chukwubuike Adamu (2), Victor Ruiz and Thody Elie Youan (2) secured the home win 5-0 against Lausanne Sport in their previous game. The attacker Thody Elie Youan got a match rating of 8.63 in that game. Youan scored two goals, signed up for two assists and hit one key pass. As mentioned above, St. Gallen was the only team on the pitch versus Lausanne Sport in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Zürich that ended 2-2.

A quick return to home after this game, as Gallen are hosting Luzern in the Swiss Cup only three days away.

The visiting Gallen have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 19 goals from 17 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. In the opposite end, St. Gallen have conceded 27 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: St. Gallen - Servette 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - two - seven (Servette 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

ServetteG. Kyei
G. Kyei
12 goals
ServetteA. Schalk
A. Schalk
10 goals
St. GallenK. Duah
K. Duah
9 goals

Servette missing players

St. Gallen missing players

Servette St. Gallen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
35 17 6 Played P 4 17 35
14 6 2 Won W 0 3 10
8 7 2 Drew D 2 6 11
13 4 2 Lost L 2 8 14
44 27 11 Scored S 0 19 43
54 27 11 Conceded C 3 27 47
97% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 88% 89%
80% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 65% 63%
54% 59% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 47% 49%
26% 35% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 35% 34%
11% 18% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 14%
63% 88% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 53% 49%
17% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 24% 31%
23% 6% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 35% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.8 1.9
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
10.7 10.6 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11 12.9 13.1
4.1 4.2 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.7 4.1
30% 38% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 30%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Gallen have the fewest points (15) away in Super League

  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 35 24 9 2 70 27 18 14 3 1 38 14 17 10 6 1 32 13 43 81
2 Basel 35 15 8 12 60 49 18 9 6 3 35 21 17 6 2 9 25 28 11 53
3 Servette 35 14 8 13 44 54 17 6 7 4 27 27 18 8 1 9 17 27 -10 50
4 Luzern 35 12 10 13 61 57 17 7 7 3 35 21 18 5 3 10 26 36 4 46
5 Lausanne Sport 35 12 10 13 50 51 17 9 2 6 31 25 18 3 8 7 19 26 -1 46
6 Lugano 35 11 13 11 38 41 18 7 4 7 19 20 17 4 9 4 19 21 -3 46
7 St. Gallen 35 10 11 14 43 47 18 7 5 6 24 20 17 3 6 8 19 27 -4 41
8 Zürich 35 10 10 15 49 56 17 5 5 7 23 20 18 5 5 8 26 36 -7 40
9 Vaduz 35 9 9 17 35 54 18 4 4 10 18 31 17 5 5 7 17 23 -19 36
10 Sion 35 7 14 14 44 58 17 3 8 6 19 26 18 4 6 8 25 32 -14 35

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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.