Servette vs Zürich match preview: Even contest expected at Stade de Genève

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Wed 26.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Genève (28833 seats)

Servette are chasing the top league places while Zürich are more concerned with avoiding relegation. May the best team win!

Insights:
  • Servette have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (12) in Super League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Servette and Zürich.

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Servette form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for Servette at their home stadium (Stade de Genève) is 6 wins, 7 draws and 1 defeat.

The fans are hoping that Servette will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-6 away loss in the match against Young Boys (placed 1st). Before that game this club had gone nine consecutive league rounds without a defeat. As you see from the result above, Servette suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Frick had a busy but productive day in the Young Boys match. Despite making eight saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfield player Kutesa got a match rating of 7.23 in that game, the max score being 10. Kutesa served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 20 successful passes (of 22 total).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Lugano that ended 0-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Servette have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 4 and lost 2.

If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 10 most recent league games highlights that 9 of them had goals from both sides.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Servette as they have a new game in only three days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. St. Gallen are visiting.

Servette has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches.

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Zürich form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Zürich so far with only 14 points returning home. The records show 3-5-6 (win-draw-lose).

Zürich had fun at their own home (Stade de Genève) last time out, beating St. Gallen 1-0. Okita scored. That win felt good as this side had gone three league matches without winning. Goalkeeper Brecher got the top player rating of the team with 8.11/10. Brecher topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that game, the 1-4 loss visiting Luzern's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Zürich in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Zürich, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Observe! Both teams have scored in 8 of this club's last 10 league fixtures.

After this away game Zürich return home for a Super League game against Sion. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Zürich as they have only managed to score 13 times from 14 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Zürich have conceded 24 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. Zürich has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

The last H2H game ended Zürich - Servette 1-1, earlier this season. Last ten meetings featuring these participants: Servette won five, Zürich triumphed in three and we saw two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ZürichT. Aiyegun
T. Aiyegun
11 goals
ZürichJ. Okita
J. Okita
7 goals
ServetteC. Bedia
C. Bedia
6 goals

Servette missing players

Zürich missing players

Servette Zürich
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 13 4 Played P 3 14 29
9 6 1 Won W 0 3 7
14 7 3 Drew D 1 5 12
5 0 0 Lost L 2 6 10
35 18 4 Scored S 3 13 30
39 11 3 Conceded C 10 24 44
86% 77% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 86%
75% 62% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 79% 72%
50% 46% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 43% 45%
32% 31% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 36% 31%
14% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 14% 17%
64% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 55%
25% 38% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 28%
25% 23% 25% Failed to Score F T 33% 36% 31%
 
6.1 6.8 10 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 4.9 4.5
4.5 3.4 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 4.9 5.2
2.1 1.6 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3.6 2.8
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
11.7 12.6 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11.1 11.1
4.1 4.4 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 4 3.7
31% 32% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 23% 28%
 
14 11.1 8 Shots against (avg) S A 13 11 10.1
4.5 3.1 1.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 4.6 4.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Servette have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Servette have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Zürich have the fewest dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (12) 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 29 17 10 2 69 21 15 12 3 0 46 8 14 5 7 2 23 13 48 61
2 Luzern 29 11 9 9 47 39 14 4 5 5 20 19 15 7 4 4 27 20 8 42
3 Servette 29 9 14 6 35 42 14 6 7 1 18 14 15 3 7 5 17 28 -7 41
4 Lugano 29 10 10 9 42 39 15 6 5 4 23 19 14 4 5 5 19 20 3 40
5 Grasshopper 29 10 7 12 43 48 14 7 2 5 25 23 15 3 5 7 18 25 -5 37
6 St. Gallen 29 9 9 11 51 43 14 6 6 2 26 16 15 3 3 9 25 27 8 36
7 Basel 29 8 12 9 37 35 15 5 7 3 23 17 14 3 5 6 14 18 2 36
8 Zürich 29 7 12 10 30 44 15 4 7 4 17 20 14 3 5 6 13 24 -14 33
9 Sion 29 7 9 13 37 55 14 2 4 8 15 30 15 5 5 5 22 25 -18 30
10 Winterthur 29 7 8 14 27 52 15 5 4 6 14 25 14 2 4 8 13 27 -25 29

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.