Season ticket holders at Stade de Tourbillon haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Sion languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Luzern will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
The hosts Sion saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Super League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Basel.
Sion form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Sion have only managed 3 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Stade de Tourbillon. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in ten attempts.
Sion faced defeat in their previous match, away at Basel (0-2). In the match before that, Sion hosted Servette and drew the game 1-1.
Sion's goalkeeper Kevin Fickentscher was extremely busy against Basel, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning eight saves.
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 Sion have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won five, drawn two and lost three.
Sion are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at St. Gallen awaits in three days.
Sion has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sion defense is not exactly impregnable. 23 goals conceded from 13 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Luzern form and stats
4-2-7 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Luzern in their Super League matches away.
Luzern played 2-2 against Servette in their previous match. Prior to that match, the Luzern manager F. Celestini faced defeat when travelling to Lugano and losing 0-2.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Luzern's duel with Servette. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Francesco Margiotta found the equalizer.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Luzern playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were three Luzern wins, one draw and four defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Luzern are hosting Thun in the Super League only three days away.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Luzern as they have only managed to score 11 times from 13 away games in the league. 18 goals have been conceded by Luzern in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sion and Luzern have met before this season: Luzern - Sion 3-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - three - two (Sion wins - draws - Luzern wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Kasami 9 goals |   F. Margiotta 9 goals |  E. Lenjani 6 goals |
Sion missing players
Luzern missing players
| Sion | Luzern | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 6 | 13 | 26 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 14 | 6 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| 30 | 19 | 6 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 29 |
| 46 | 23 | 4 | Conceded | C | 6 | 18 | 35 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 81% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 77% | 77% |
| 62% | 69% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 31% | 46% |
| 31% | 23% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | 19% |
| 15% | 15% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 8% |
| 69% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 31% | 46% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 23% | 27% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 46% | 31% |
| 4.9 | 5.5 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 6 | 5.7 |
| 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.1 | 2.8 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 277 | 159 | 35 | Total Shots | T S | 56 | 127 | 301 |
| 102 | 58 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 46 | 116 |
| 29% | 33% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 24% | 25% |
- All of Sion's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Luzern has the fewest dropped points from leading position (4)
- Luzern has the fewest matches over the total-line (10)
- Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Luzern is in the best form (3-2-1)
- Sion has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home
- Sion have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sion have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Sion haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- 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 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 55 | 34 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 51 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 26 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 56 | 38 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 51 |
| 3 | Basel | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 53 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 26 | 46 |
| 4 | Servette | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 42 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 40 |
| 5 | Zürich | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 48 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 28 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 38 |
| 6 | Luzern | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 35 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -6 | 35 |
| 7 | Lugano | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 18 | -2 | 30 |
| 8 | Sion | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 30 | 46 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 23 | -16 | 24 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 26 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 47 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 26 | -19 | 22 |
| 10 | Thun | 26 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 27 | 51 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 26 | -24 | 22 |