It's only been eight sleeps since St. Gallen played against Sion and the scoreline was 3-0. How will it end vs Basel?
- St. Gallen is in the best form (4-2-0) in Super League
- Basel have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (12) in Super League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
St. Gallen form and stats
The story so far in the Super League for St. Gallen at their home stadium (Kybunpark) is 5 wins, 6 draws and 3 defeats. Gallen haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Zürich, 112 days ago.
A good away victory last time out for St. Gallen, who won 3-0 against Sion (placed 7th). Ruiz (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.43/10. Ruiz scored one goal, served one assist and hit five key passes.
Before that match, a win away at Zürich.This is expected to be a close game, with St. Gallen perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Gallen as a small favourite), we find nine games. St. Gallen has won two of these, drawn two and lost five.
Gallen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Kybunpark with 26 goals in 14 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the St. Gallen defense is not exactly impregnable. 23 goals conceded from 14 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Basel form and stats
The visitors are W7-D5-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Super League. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Basel, as they have won on their previous two travels.
There were no winners in Basel's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Young Boys (placed 3rd). Esposito, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.1. Esposito scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.
aweayteam Hara magic won. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Basel in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Basel, one draw and three defeats.
Basel have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 29 goals from 14 away matches. Basel have conceded 19 goals in these away matches. More than 60 % of these were let in from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of games.
Head 2 Head
The two teams involved encountered each other earlier on this campaign: Basel - Gallen 2-2. Head to head totals (for the former ten meetings): St. Gallen won three games, three matches ended with a tie and Basel managed four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  A. Mendonça Cabral 14 goals |   K. Duah 11 goals | J. Guillemenot 7 goals |
St. Gallen missing players
Basel missing players
| St. Gallen | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 14 | 28 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 7 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 51 | 26 | 9 | Scored | S | 5 | 29 | 62 |
| 49 | 23 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 19 | 35 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 93% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 68% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 57% | 57% |
| 46% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 29% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 21% | 21% |
| 68% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 64% | 68% |
| 18% | 7% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 36% | 29% |
| 14% | 21% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 4% |
| 5.9 | 5.6 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.4 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 | 6.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.7 | 5.2 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.9 | 2.4 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11.9 | 11.8 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 10.6 | 12.5 |
| 5.1 | 4.9 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| 36% | 38% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 45% | 41% |
| 11.4 | 11.6 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 13.4 | 12.2 |
| 5.1 | 5.3 | 7.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.8 | 4.8 |
- Basel have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Basel have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (12) in Super League
- Basel have the most clean sheets (5) away in Super League
- Basel haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in Super League
- St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Gallen is in the best form (4-2-0) 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 | Zürich | 28 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 62 | 35 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 27 | 63 |
| 2 | Basel | 28 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 62 | 35 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 33 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 29 | 19 | 27 | 51 |
| 3 | Young Boys | 28 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 62 | 38 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 33 | 21 | 24 | 46 |
| 4 | Lugano | 28 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 39 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 2 | 46 |
| 5 | St. Gallen | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 51 | 49 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 26 | 2 | 40 |
| 6 | Servette | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 43 | 51 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 30 | -8 | 38 |
| 7 | Sion | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 34 | 52 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 34 | -18 | 30 |
| 8 | Grasshopper | 28 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 43 | 47 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 19 | -4 | 28 |
| 9 | Luzern | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 32 | 52 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 27 | -20 | 23 |
| 10 | Lausanne Sport | 28 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 59 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 35 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 24 | -32 | 16 |
