Stade de Tourbillon: Sion vs Thun Super League preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 25.July
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

Sion are welcoming Thun for another important game after their 2-1 result against 5th-placed Luzern.

It's no vacation for neither Sion nor Thun as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

12 - 5 - 18 with 43-54. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Thun when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Thun play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

Relegation threatens Sion who should definitely be looking for some points here. Thun are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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Sion form and stats

Sion have played 16 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-5-7 (wins-draws-losses).

Sion are returning here after visiting Luzern in a Super League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Sandro Theler and Itaitinga scored the goal(s). The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 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 nine games. Sion has won five of these, drawn two and lost two.

Sion are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at Zürich awaits in three days.

The Sion fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 21 in 16 matches. Sion have conceded 26 from these games.

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Thun form and stats

There's been little loot from Thun's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 16 away games in the Super League. Thun, who have the most conceded goals (63) in Super League, only have 3 wins to counter their 11 defeats and 2 draws.

Thun go into this game after a win, the home game against Servette that ended 5-1. Before that, Thun secured a home win against St. Gallen with the score 2-1.

As mentioned above, Thun was the only team on the pitch versus Servette in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Thun playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were four Thun wins, zero draws and two defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Thun as they have only managed to score 15 times from 16 away games in the league. For Thun, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Thun - Sion 2-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Sion victories, one draw and three Thun wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

SionP. Kasami
P. Kasami
10 goals
ThunR. Munsy
R. Munsy
10 goals
SionE. Lenjani
E. Lenjani
6 goals

Sion missing players

Thun missing players

Sion Thun
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
32 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
8 4 0 Won W 1 3 10
8 5 2 Drew D 2 2 5
16 7 2 Lost L 1 11 18
35 21 4 Scored S 5 15 41
52 26 6 Conceded C 5 34 63
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 94% 97%
78% 94% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 88% 85%
56% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 62% 64%
25% 19% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 38% 39%
12% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 19% 24%
66% 88% 100% BTTS BTTS 75% 50% 55%
19% 6% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 19% 15%
25% 6% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 38% 33%
 
4.8 5.3 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.5 4
6.2 5.7 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 7.7 6.4
2.7 3 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.2 2.5
5 4 1 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
332 187 54 Total Shots T S 31 141 382
124 68 17 Shots on Target S O 13 49 128
28% 31% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 31% 32%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion has the fewest clean sheets (1) at home
  • Sion haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Thun has the fewest points (11) away
  • Thun has the most conceded goals (34) away
  • Thun has the most conceded goals (63)
  • Thun has the most conceded goals in the second half (37)
  • Thun has the the worst goal difference (-19) away
  • Thun have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Thun have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 33 20 7 6 75 40 16 14 2 0 47 14 17 6 5 6 28 26 35 67
2 St. Gallen 33 19 5 9 69 52 17 10 2 5 36 29 16 9 3 4 33 23 17 62
3 Basel 33 18 5 10 70 34 16 11 2 3 38 13 17 7 3 7 32 21 36 59
4 Servette 33 11 13 9 51 42 16 7 7 2 24 12 17 4 6 7 27 30 9 46
5 Luzern 33 12 6 15 40 48 17 7 4 6 26 24 16 5 2 9 14 24 -8 42
6 Zürich 32 12 6 14 40 62 15 7 2 6 22 33 17 5 4 8 18 29 -22 42
7 Lugano 33 9 13 11 38 41 17 5 8 4 15 16 16 4 5 7 23 25 -3 40
8 Thun 33 10 5 18 41 63 17 7 3 7 26 29 16 3 2 11 15 34 -22 35
9 Sion 32 8 8 16 35 52 16 4 5 7 21 26 16 4 3 9 14 26 -17 32
10 Neuchatel Xamax 33 5 12 16 32 57 17 2 5 10 15 25 16 3 7 6 17 32 -25 27

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.