St. Gallen supporters put their faith in manager Zeidler to deliver victory against Sion

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 10.September
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kybunpark (19456 seats)

The standings reveals that 4 points divide the two opponents in this Super League match. St. Gallen have both the points- and home stadium advantage.

Insights:
  • St. Gallen is in the best form (5-0-1) in Super League
  • All of Sion's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

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.

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St. Gallen form and stats

St. Gallen, who have the most points (12) at home in Super League, have collected 12 points from their Super League home games so far after 4-0-0.

A nice win for Gallen last time playing, versus Young Boys. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Guindo and Schmidt scoring for the victors. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Zeidler when Schmidt scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 63rd minute. Midfielder Görtler was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.85 (out of ten) in that game. Görtler hit five key passes.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Lugano and winning 3-2.

St. Gallen can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 10 times. Gallen have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Sion form and stats

It's gone fairly well in the Super League away games so far for Sion with six points collected from three matches.

Sion go into this game after a win, the home game against Basel that ended 2-1. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Tramezzani when Sio scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 79th minute. Midfield player Poha was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.81/10. Poha served one assist, hit two key passes and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).

Prior to that match, the Sion manager Tramezzani faced defeat when travelling to Luzern and losing 0-2.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Sion when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 7 matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 1 and winning 5 games.

4 goals have been conceded by Sion in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (St. Gallen wins - draws - Sion wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

St. GallenF. Schubert
F. Schubert
3 goals
SionF. Stojilkovic
F. Stojilkovic
3 goals
GallenL. Görtler
L. Görtler
2 goals

St. Gallen missing players

Sion missing players

St. Gallen Sion
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 4 0 Played P 0 3 7
5 4 0 Won W 0 2 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
2 0 0 Lost L 0 1 2
15 10 0 Scored S 0 6 10
8 2 0 Conceded C 0 4 10
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 86%
86% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 86%
57% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 71%
43% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 29%
43% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 14%
57% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
29% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 29%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 43%
 
5.7 5.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6 6.4
4.7 3.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 8.3 6.6
2.1 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 2.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
16.3 17.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12.3 14.7
7.9 9.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5.3 6.1
27% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 23%
 
9.4 8.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12.3 10
4.4 3.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 6 4.1
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Sion's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of St. Gallen's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • St. Gallen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • St. Gallen have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • St. Gallen have the most points (12) at home in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals (10) at home in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the the best goal difference (+8) at home in Super League
  • St. Gallen have won all their matches at home so far.
  • St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Gallen is in the best form (5-0-1) 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 St. Gallen 7 5 0 2 15 8 4 4 0 0 10 2 3 1 0 2 5 6 7 15
2 Young Boys 7 4 2 1 17 4 3 2 1 0 8 1 4 2 1 1 9 3 13 14
3 Servette 7 4 2 1 8 5 3 3 0 0 5 1 4 1 2 1 3 4 3 14
4 Grasshopper 7 3 3 1 13 10 3 3 0 0 8 3 4 0 3 1 5 7 3 12
5 Sion 7 3 2 2 10 10 4 1 2 1 4 6 3 2 0 1 6 4 0 11
6 Lugano 7 3 0 4 14 12 3 0 0 3 5 8 4 3 0 1 9 4 2 9
7 Luzern 6 2 2 2 6 8 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 3 5 -2 8
8 Basel 6 1 3 2 7 8 3 0 2 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 6 5 -1 6
9 Zürich 7 0 2 5 4 16 4 0 1 3 3 9 3 0 1 2 1 7 -12 2
10 Winterthur 7 0 2 5 4 17 4 0 2 2 4 11 3 0 0 3 0 6 -13 2

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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.