Match preview Super League: Sion - Young Boys at Stade de Tourbillon

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 04.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

The visiting Young Boys side should be favourites in this visit to Sion, as the away team holds a 31 point advantage from their 26 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (48) in Super League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Young Boys play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Young Boys when playing on grass are 18 wins, 14 draws and 9 defeats from 41 matches. They have scored 75 goals and conceded 53 times in these games.

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Sion form and stats

3-5-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Sion so far this season. Three consecutive losses here at Stade de Tourbillon is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

Sion shared the glory with Luzern in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Preceding that match was the home game against Servette that was lost 1-2.

Sion has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Sion have conceded 19 in these home matches.

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Young Boys form and stats

Young Boys, who have the most scored goals (48) in Super League, have an excellent away record in the Super League so far with 7-6-0 from 13 games. In general it has been a productive period now for Young as they haven't lost any of their last 16 games. Young are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played 13 in a row without losing.

Young had fun at their own home (Stade de Tourbillon) last time out, beating Zurich 4-0. Meschack Elia, Felix Mambimbi, Jordan Siebatcheu and Quentin Maceiras scored. A 0-2 loss hosting Ajax before that.

As mentioned above, Young was the only team on the pitch versus Zurich in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.

Young has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 24 goals from 13 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (10 so far). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Young Boys - Sion 2-1. Sion-Young Boys H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sion zero wins, Young Boys nine wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
13 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
10 goals
SionA. Grgic
A. Grgic
9 goals

Sion missing players

Young Boys missing players

Sion Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 13 4 Played P 5 13 26
5 3 1 Won W 2 7 16
11 5 1 Drew D 3 6 9
10 5 2 Lost L 0 0 1
30 15 4 Scored S 9 24 48
40 19 6 Conceded C 7 10 21
88% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 77% 85%
81% 85% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 77% 77%
50% 54% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 54% 58%
31% 23% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 38% 31%
15% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 15% 12%
65% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 80% 54% 58%
19% 23% 25% Clean Sheets C S 20% 46% 42%
27% 31% 25% Failed to Score F T 20% 23% 15%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.5 2
4 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
8.6 8.5 7.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 13.4 14
3.4 3.4 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 5.3 5.8
34% 34% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 35% 32%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Young Boys have not yet lost a game away.
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (12) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (11) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (6) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most points (27) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (24) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (48) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+14) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+27) in Super League

  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 16 9 1 48 21 13 9 3 1 24 11 13 7 6 0 24 10 27 57
2 Servette 26 10 7 9 31 33 13 5 6 2 20 16 13 5 1 7 11 17 -2 37
3 Lugano 26 8 12 6 31 28 13 4 4 5 13 16 13 4 8 1 18 12 3 36
4 Basel 26 10 6 10 39 38 13 5 6 2 22 19 13 5 0 8 17 19 1 36
5 Lausanne Sport 26 9 7 10 36 35 13 7 0 6 22 18 13 2 7 4 14 17 1 34
6 Zurich 26 9 6 11 36 38 13 4 4 5 16 14 13 5 2 6 20 24 -2 33
7 Luzern 26 8 8 10 45 43 13 4 7 2 25 16 13 4 1 8 20 27 2 32
8 St. Gallen 26 8 8 10 34 36 13 5 3 5 17 16 13 3 5 5 17 20 -2 32
9 Sion 26 5 11 10 30 40 13 3 5 5 15 19 13 2 6 5 15 21 -10 26
10 Vaduz 26 6 8 12 24 42 13 3 3 7 12 23 13 3 5 5 12 19 -18 26

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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.