St. Gallen favourites for feisty fight facing Lugano

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Wed 16.December
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kybunpark (19456 seats)

St. Gallen perform at a high level so far being 3rd in the table. Lugano can look both up and down from their 5th position.

Insights:
  • St. Gallen has the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in Super League
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.

It's no vacation for neither St. Gallen nor Lugano 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.

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

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St. Gallen form and stats

St. Gallen have collected 7 points from their Super League home games so far after 2-1-1.

Gallen enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Lausanne Sport's place. The match ended 1-0 with Victor Ruiz scoring. A strong away win before that one, visiting Zürich and winning 2-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Gallen have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won five times, drawn zero and lost zero.

There will be little rest for St. Gallen after this match as they are travelling to Basel for a Super League game in only three days.

The St. Gallen fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches. On the other hand, St. Gallen have conceded 5 goals.

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Lugano form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 1 win, 3 draws and 0 defeats.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Super League home defeat versus Zürich with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Before that, Lugano secured a home win against Basel with the score 1-0.

Lugano are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, three draws and three defeats. From a total of eight matches.

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

Lugano are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). 4 goals have been conceded by Lugano in these games.

Head 2 Head

St. Gallen and Lugano have met before this season: Lugano - St. Gallen 1-0. Gallen-Lugano H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: St. Gallen three wins, Lugano five wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

St. GallenK. Duah
K. Duah
3 goals
St. GallenV. Ruiz Abril
V. Ruiz Abril
2 goals
GallenE. Youan
E. Youan
2 goals

St. Gallen missing players

Lugano missing players

St. Gallen Lugano
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 4 1 Played P 0 4 9
5 2 1 Won W 0 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 0 3 4
2 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
11 5 1 Scored S 0 5 11
9 5 0 Conceded C 0 4 8
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
40% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 56%
40% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 33%
30% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 56%
50% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 33%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 11%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 1.8 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
14.3 15.2 8 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.5 8.3
3.6 4.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.5 3.2
31% 28% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 36% 38%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.
  • Lugano have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Gallen has the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in Super League
  • St. Gallen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Gallen have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 10 6 3 1 14 7 6 4 1 1 8 5 4 2 2 0 6 2 7 21
2 Basel 11 6 1 4 18 13 5 4 1 0 12 7 6 2 0 4 6 6 5 19
3 St. Gallen 10 5 3 2 11 9 4 2 1 1 5 5 6 3 2 1 6 4 2 18
4 Zürich 11 5 2 4 19 15 5 3 1 1 10 4 6 2 1 3 9 11 4 17
5 Lugano 9 4 4 1 11 8 5 3 1 1 6 4 4 1 3 0 5 4 3 16
6 Servette 11 4 2 5 10 12 5 2 2 1 5 5 6 2 0 4 5 7 -2 14
7 Luzern 11 3 3 5 18 19 5 1 3 1 9 8 6 2 0 4 9 11 -1 12
8 Lausanne Sport 11 3 3 5 14 16 6 3 0 3 9 6 5 0 3 2 5 10 -2 12
9 Sion 10 1 4 5 10 17 5 1 3 1 5 4 5 0 1 4 5 13 -7 7
10 Vaduz 10 1 3 6 9 18 6 1 1 4 6 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 -9 6

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.