Home advantage could prove decisive in Servette - Zürich battle

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 11.September
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Genève (28833 seats)

Servette are hunting the top table places while Zürich are more involved in avoiding relegation. Who wins the prize?

Insights:
  • Servette have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Super League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League.

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Servette form and stats

Perfect Super League season at home so far for Servette 3 wins from 3 appearances.

It's back home for Servette, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Luzern away with the result 2-0. Crivelli and Cognat found the net in that victory. Vouilloz was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.14 out of 10. The defender Vouilloz won 5 of 11 duels.

Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Grasshopper.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Servette handle that role? We have found 18 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 9 wins, 6 draws and 3 defeats.

The Servette fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches. Servette have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Zürich form and stats

Still no away game victory in the Super League for Zürich with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.

This match can not go any worse than the previous one, a Europa League home loss versus Arsenal with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

The game before that, in the Super League, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Lugano.

Zürich are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 16 matches.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Europa League trip to Bodø / Glimt.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Zürich's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 3 matches. The Zürich manager Foda has some worries about the defense as 7 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Servette six wins, one draw and Zürich three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ServetteT. Cognat
T. Cognat
1 goals
ServetteM. Stevanović
M. Stevanović
1 goals
ServetteB. Fofana
B. Fofana
1 goals

Servette missing players

Zürich missing players

Servette Zürich
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 2 3 7
4 3 1 Won W 0 0 0
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
1 0 0 Lost L 2 2 5
8 5 1 Scored S 0 1 4
5 1 0 Conceded C 6 7 16
86% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
57% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
29% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 57%
14% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
29% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
57% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
29% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 67% 57%
 
6 8.7 6 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.3 5
4.7 3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.3 4.9
2.4 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 3.7 3.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.9 15 11 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.7 10.1
3.9 6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.3 3.4
30% 28% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 8% 17%
 
14.1 10 7 Shots against (avg) S A 13 12.7 10.7
3.3 1.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 6.7 5.7
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Zürich's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Servette have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Super League
  • Servette have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Super League
  • Servette have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Servette have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Servette have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Zürich have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Zürich have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Super League
  • Zürich have yet to win a game.

  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 7 5 0 2 15 8 4 4 0 0 10 2 3 1 0 2 5 6 7 15
2 Young Boys 7 4 2 1 17 4 3 2 1 0 8 1 4 2 1 1 9 3 13 14
3 Servette 7 4 2 1 8 5 3 3 0 0 5 1 4 1 2 1 3 4 3 14
4 Grasshopper 7 3 3 1 13 10 3 3 0 0 8 3 4 0 3 1 5 7 3 12
5 Sion 7 3 2 2 10 10 4 1 2 1 4 6 3 2 0 1 6 4 0 11
6 Lugano 7 3 0 4 14 12 3 0 0 3 5 8 4 3 0 1 9 4 2 9
7 Luzern 6 2 2 2 6 8 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 3 5 -2 8
8 Basel 6 1 3 2 7 8 3 0 2 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 6 5 -1 6
9 Zürich 7 0 2 5 4 16 4 0 1 3 3 9 3 0 1 2 1 7 -12 2
10 Winterthur 7 0 2 5 4 17 4 0 2 2 4 11 3 0 0 3 0 6 -13 2

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.