Young Boys travel to Sion with space in suitcase for three points

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 21.May
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Tourbillon (14283 seats)

A quick look at the Super League table hint of an edge to Young Boys when they arrive at Sion. Even so; let's await the match before we pick a winner!

Insights:
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (65) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (78) in Super League

Happy, happy days for Young Boys who are already winners of the Super League. This could affect their motivation. One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Young Boys have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 14-13-10 (win-draw-loss) from 37 matches.

This looks to be an entertaining fixture with lots of action and bustle as both contenders are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's start!

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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, 4 draws and 10 losses from their games here at Stade de Tourbillon. Sion are slowly digging their own grave here at Stade de Tourbillon with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in ten attempts.

Cyprien was the last player to score a league goal for Sion and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Sion haven't scored in 226 minutes.

Sion lost their last game at Servette (placed 2nd) after a 0-5 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. Cyprien (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 6.84/10. Cyprien hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 62 successful passes (of 71 total).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Winterthur (0-1).

Goal party? We don't know what will happen in this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league matches with this side has seen at least three goals.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Sion as they have a new game in only four days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Luzern are visiting.

Sion are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (33 from 16 played).

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Young Boys form and stats

6 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Young Boys, who have the most scored goals (78) in Super League, playing as the away team in the Super League this season.

Young Boys's last game was the home draw against Zürich (1-1). Defender Blum was the best team player with a rating of 7.92. Blum scored one goal, hit three key passes and won 2 of 5 duels.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at St. Gallen.

Observe! Both teams have scored at least one goal in 13 of this club's latest 17 league games.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Young Boys manager Wicky as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Lugano.

Young Boys has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 26 goals from 16 games. 17 goals have been conceded by Young Boys in these games.

Head 2 Head

Young Boys have managed a sequence of 6 consecutive games without losing (5-1-0) when facing Sion.

The contenders have met each other previously this season, with the result Young Boys - Sion 4-0 written in the official records. The ref showed his red card when these teams last played each other, and the recipient was Sio (Sion).

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysC. Itten
C. Itten
19 goals
Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
18 goals
SionG. Sio
G. Sio
8 goals

Sion missing players

Young Boys missing players

Sion Young Boys
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 6 16 33
7 2 0 Won W 2 6 19
10 4 3 Drew D 3 7 11
16 10 1 Lost L 1 3 3
40 16 5 Scored S 11 26 78
65 33 6 Conceded C 6 17 27
94% 94% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 81% 91%
82% 75% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 81% 91%
64% 62% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 56% 64%
42% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 33%
15% 12% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 19% 21%
58% 56% 75% BTTS BTTS 67% 69% 64%
12% 12% 25% Clean Sheets C S 33% 31% 36%
36% 38% 25% Failed to Score F T 17% 19% 9%
 
4.4 5.1 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 6.5 6.4
6.4 5.1 6.8 Corners against (avg) C A 2.3 4 4
3.1 3.1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.2 2.1
6 1 0 Red cards R C 2 4 4
 
11.5 12.4 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 14.5 15.8
4.2 4.7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 5.2 6
29% 21% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 31% 39%
 
13.1 10.9 11.8 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 11.6 10.2
4.8 4.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 5.1 3.9
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Sion have the fewest points (10) at home in Super League
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (33) at home in Super League
  • Sion have the most conceded goals (65) in Super League
  • Sion have the the worst goal difference (-17) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (17) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (27) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (13) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (12) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (5) away in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (78) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (44) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+51) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+9) away 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 33 19 11 3 78 27 17 13 4 0 52 10 16 6 7 3 26 17 51 68
2 Servette 33 12 15 6 48 45 17 8 8 1 28 15 16 4 7 5 20 30 3 51
3 Lugano 33 13 11 9 53 44 17 8 5 4 30 21 16 5 6 5 23 23 9 50
4 Luzern 33 12 10 11 53 49 16 5 6 5 25 22 17 7 4 6 28 27 4 46
5 Grasshopper 33 12 7 14 52 57 17 9 2 6 33 27 16 3 5 8 19 30 -5 43
6 Basel 33 10 12 11 44 45 16 5 7 4 23 19 17 5 5 7 21 26 -1 42
7 St. Gallen 33 10 10 13 59 49 17 7 6 4 33 21 16 3 4 9 26 28 10 40
8 Zürich 33 8 14 11 35 51 16 4 8 4 19 22 17 4 6 7 16 29 -16 38
9 Winterthur 33 8 8 17 31 61 16 5 4 7 15 29 17 3 4 10 16 32 -30 32
10 Sion 33 7 10 16 40 65 16 2 4 10 16 33 17 5 6 6 24 32 -25 31

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.