Sion will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today's opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Young Boys.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
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 (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 21-5-8 (win-draw-loss) from 34 matches.
Sion form and stats
Sion have played 6 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Sion lost their last game at Zürich (placed 4th) after a 2-4 scoreline. Prior to that, an away loss at St. Gallen.
A goal frenzy last time out for Sion, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Zürich. Fun stuff to watch!
The Sion fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 9 goals in 6 league matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.
Young Boys form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Young Boys, who have the most scored goals (34) in Super League, playing as the away team in the Super League this season.
Young Boys won their last game, 4-3 versus St. Gallen played at home. Ahead of that match was the Europa League away draw versus Feyenoord that ended 1-1.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Young Boys, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Porto in just four days.
Young Boys are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 6 away games so far. As opposed to that, Young Boys have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Young Boys - Sion 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sion 0 wins, 0 draws and Young Boys 10 victories. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 
J. Nsamé
12 goals
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E. Lenjani
4 goals
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P. Kasami
4 goals
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Sion missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Sion | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
|
Statistics | Stat | vs
|
Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 34 |
| 25 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 93% |
| 71% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 64% |
| 43% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 57% |
| 21% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 36% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 64% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 7% |
| 4.7 | 4.7 | 6 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.7 | 6.5 |
| 6 | 5.2 | 4 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 2.5 | 3 | 2.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- All of Sion's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- 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.
- Young Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Young Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 31 |
| 2 | Basel | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 20 | 30 |
| 3 | St. Gallen | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 26 |
| 4 | Zürich | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 21 |
| 5 | Servette | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Sion | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 17 |
| 7 | Luzern | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | Lugano | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | -5 | 13 |
| 9 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -8 | 12 |
| 10 | Thun | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -16 | 9 |