Sion fights Grasshopper in Super League battle

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 13.August
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

Sion duel Grasshopper for fame and triumph.

Insights:
  • Grasshopper have the most points from losing position (5) in Super League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Super League. That game, against Luzern, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Grasshopper.

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Sion form and stats

Sion have collected 1 point from their Super League home games so far after 0-1-1.

The Sion goalkeeper Heinz Lindner is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 182 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.

Happy days for Sion in their previous game, a fixture away at Zurich (placed 10th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. The forward Itaitinga won the honour of being "man of the match" for Sion with the rating of 8.25/10. Itaitinga scored two goals.

Before that, Sion drew at home versus Servette.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Sion at home in the league. 0 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Grasshopper form and stats

Grasshopper are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Super League, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses). Two points from the last two away games for Grasshopper, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Grasshopper has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Luzern for a 1-1 draw. Attacker Dadaşov got a player rating of 7.34 in the game. "Man of the match" Dadaşov scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus St. Gallen.

Grasshopper are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

2 goals so far away for Grasshopper, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Sion victories, one draw and four Grasshopper wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

SionC. da Costa
C. da Costa
2 goals
GrasshopperH. Kawabe
H. Kawabe
2 goals
GrasshopperT. Ndenge
T. Ndenge
2 goals

Sion missing players

Grasshopper missing players

Sion Grasshopper
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
4 2 2 Played P 1 2 4
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 2
1 1 1 Drew D 1 2 2
1 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
6 0 0 Scored S 1 2 7
5 3 3 Conceded C 1 2 5
75% 50% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
25% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 25%
25% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 25%
25% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 100%
50% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
5 5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 4.8
8 6.5 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 11 9.5 8.8
1.8 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.5 15 15 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7 8.2
5.5 6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.5 4.2
27% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 40% 41%
 
10.8 10 10 Shots against (avg) S A 12 15 15.8
3.2 2.5 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5 6.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Grasshopper have the most points from losing position (5) in Super League
Sion Last season Grasshopper
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
36 18   Played P   18 36
11 6   Won W   4 9
8 4   Drew D   7 13
17 8   Lost L   7 14
46 21   Scored S   21 54
67 26   Conceded C   24 58
97% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 97%
78% 72%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   83% 86%
56% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   39% 53%
36% 28%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   28% 44%
19% 11%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 17%
64% 50%   BTTS BTTS   56% 69%
19% 28%   Clean Sheets C S   22% 11%
19% 28%   Failed to Score F T   28% 22%
 
3.6 3.9   Corners for (avg) C F   4.1 4.9
6.5 5.8   Corners against (avg) C A   5.3 5.2
2.4 2.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.8 2.7
3 2   Red cards R C   3 4
 
8.9 9.3   Shots (avg) S (   10.1 10.3
3.9 4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.7 4
33% 29%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 38%
 
13.6 11.8   Shots against (avg) S A   12.7 11.7
5.1 4.3   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.8 4.9

  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 4 2 2 0 8 1 2 1 1 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 3 0 7 8
2 Grasshopper 4 2 2 0 7 5 2 2 0 0 5 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 8
3 Servette 4 2 2 0 3 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 8
4 Sion 4 2 1 1 6 5 2 0 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 7
5 St. Gallen 4 2 0 2 6 4 2 2 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 2 2 4 2 6
6 Luzern 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 5
7 Lugano 4 1 0 3 8 8 2 0 0 2 3 5 2 1 0 1 5 3 0 3
8 Basel 3 0 3 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 3
9 Winterthur 4 0 1 3 2 8 2 0 1 1 2 5 2 0 0 2 0 3 -6 1
10 Zurich 4 0 1 3 0 9 2 0 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 6 -9 1
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zurich 36 23 7 6 78 46 18 12 4 2 45 23 18 11 3 4 33 23 32 76
2 Basel 36 15 17 4 70 41 18 8 8 2 39 20 18 7 9 2 31 21 29 62
3 Young Boys 36 16 12 8 80 50 18 11 5 2 41 21 18 5 7 6 39 29 30 60
4 Lugano 36 16 6 14 50 54 18 10 3 5 27 24 18 6 3 9 23 30 -4 54
5 St. Gallen 36 14 8 14 68 63 18 7 7 4 36 27 18 7 1 10 32 36 5 50
6 Servette 36 12 8 16 50 66 18 7 5 6 25 26 18 5 3 10 25 40 -16 44
7 Sion 36 11 8 17 46 67 18 6 4 8 21 26 18 5 4 9 25 41 -21 41
8 Grasshopper 36 9 13 14 54 58 18 5 6 7 33 34 18 4 7 7 21 24 -4 40
9 Luzern 36 9 13 14 52 64 18 6 4 8 27 29 18 3 9 6 25 35 -12 40
10 Lausanne Sport 36 4 10 22 37 76 18 3 5 10 23 38 18 1 5 12 14 38 -39 22

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.