Important fight in the cellar of the Super League, with both Sion and Grasshopper going through more distress than happiness. This fixture is a typical "six-pointer" with the hosts placed 9th and the guests in 7th place.
- Sion have the most conceded goals (47) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Super League
Both teams have had time to rest since their last competitive action. Let's wish for an enthusiastic match!
Sion form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Sion have only managed 2 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses from their games here at Stade St-Germain nouveau.
Sion lost their last game at Young Boys (placed 1st) after a 0-4 scoreline. Sion were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Defender Ziegler got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.42/10. Ziegler hit two key passes and won 4 of 5 duels.
Before that, Sion drew at home versus Lugano.This is expected to be a close game, with Sion perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sion as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Sion has won 2 of these, drawn 1 and lost 1.
Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sion with 26 goals conceded in these matches. Sion has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.
Grasshopper form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Grasshopper so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-6 (win-draw-lose).
Grasshopper won their last game, 2-1 versus Winterthur played at home. Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone four league matches without winning. Abrashi got a match rating of 7.31 in that game, top player of the team. Abrashi dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 31 successful passes (of 37 total).
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus St. Gallen that ended 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Grasshopper in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Grasshopper, 0 draws and 5 defeats.
Betting fact: Both teams have scored in 19 of this club's last 24 league matches.
Grasshopper are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 12 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Grasshopper have conceded 21 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Sion have won at least one point in the last 4 games (2-2-0) facing Grasshopper.The squads have met each other before in this season, with the match result Grasshopper - Sion 4-4 registered in the official records.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Kawabe 8 goals | R. Dadaşov 7 goals |   M. Barwuah Balotelli 5 goals |
Sion missing players
Grasshopper missing players
| Sion | Grasshopper | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 29 | 12 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 14 | 36 |
| 47 | 26 | 5 | Conceded | C | 2 | 21 | 40 |
| 92% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 75% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 83% | 83% |
| 58% | 58% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 42% | 42% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 21% |
| 54% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 83% | 79% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 38% | 42% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 8% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 6.2 | 4.8 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 6.9 | 7.5 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3.1 | 2.6 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 11.8 | 12.5 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 9.8 | 10 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| 27% | 20% | 8% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 30% | 33% |
| 13 | 10.8 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 14.8 | 15.8 |
| 4.9 | 4.9 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 5.3 | 5.8 |
- Grasshopper have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Grasshopper have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Super League
- Grasshopper have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Super League
- Grasshopper have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Super League
- Grasshopper haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sion have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Sion have the fewest points (9) at home in Super League
- Sion have the most conceded goals (26) at home in Super League
- Sion have the most conceded goals (47) in Super League
- Sion have the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Super League
- Sion have the the worst goal difference (-14) at home in Super League
- Sion is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| 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 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 56 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 39 | 51 |
| 2 | Servette | 24 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 29 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 19 | -1 | 35 |
| 3 | St. Gallen | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 46 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 34 |
| 4 | Lugano | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 37 | 35 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 34 |
| 5 | Luzern | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 2 | 33 |
| 6 | Basel | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 33 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 31 |
| 7 | Grasshopper | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 36 | 40 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 21 | -4 | 28 |
| 8 | Zürich | 24 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 23 | 36 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -13 | 25 |
| 9 | Sion | 24 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 29 | 47 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 21 | -18 | 23 |
| 10 | Winterthur | 24 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 44 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 23 | -23 | 23 |
