Balanced ball game between Sion and Lugano expected

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 17.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

Sion hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 12 points and a 9th position in the Super League table. Visiting Lugano holds 5th place with 19 pts.

Insights:
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Lugano has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Super League

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Sion form and stats

2-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Sion so far this season.

Sion shared the glory with Zurich in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Vaduz in a game that was won 2-1.

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 eleven games. Sion has won six of these, drawn four and lost one.

Sion has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Sion are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade de Tourbillon in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Lugano form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 1 win, 5 draws and 0 defeats. One point away has become something of a habit for Lugano who have played out draws in their last three away games. The last three matches for Lugano have all ended in a draw.

Lugano played 0-0 against Lausanne Sport in their previous match. Before that, Lugano travelled to Young Boys and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Lugano in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Lugano, three draws and one defeat.

Lugano have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Lugano have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Lugano - Sion 2-2. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Sion, six draws and three wins for Lugano. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

SionA. Grgic
A. Grgic
3 goals
LuganoM. Bottani
M. Bottani
3 goals
SionJ. Bamert
J. Bamert
2 goals

Sion missing players

Lugano missing players

Sion Lugano
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 2 6 12
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 4
6 3 2 Drew D 2 5 7
5 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
13 7 2 Scored S 2 7 13
19 5 2 Conceded C 2 6 10
77% 67% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 83%
69% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 50%
46% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 33%
31% 17% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 25%
15% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
54% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 50%
31% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 42%
38% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.3 2.7
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
8.9 7.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 7.8 7.8
3.2 3.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.7 3.2
32% 37% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 32% 34%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Super League
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 13 8 4 1 20 10 7 4 2 1 10 7 6 4 2 0 10 3 10 28
2 Basel 14 7 2 5 20 16 7 4 2 1 12 9 7 3 0 4 8 7 4 23
3 St. Gallen 13 5 5 3 12 11 6 2 2 2 6 7 7 3 3 1 6 4 1 20
4 Zurich 14 5 4 5 19 16 7 3 2 2 10 5 7 2 2 3 9 11 3 19
5 Lugano 12 4 7 1 13 10 6 3 2 1 6 4 6 1 5 0 7 6 3 19
6 Lausanne Sport 14 5 4 5 18 17 7 4 0 3 11 7 7 1 4 2 7 10 1 19
7 Servette 14 5 4 5 13 14 7 2 4 1 7 7 7 3 0 4 6 7 -1 19
8 Luzern 14 3 4 7 20 23 7 1 4 2 10 10 7 2 0 5 10 13 -3 13
9 Sion 13 2 6 5 13 19 6 2 3 1 7 5 7 0 3 4 6 14 -6 12
10 Vaduz 13 1 4 8 11 23 7 1 1 5 6 13 6 0 3 3 5 10 -12 7

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.