St. Gallen vs Zürich: Full pre-match guide and statistics

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 07.May
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kybunpark (19456 seats)

Zürich can not expect any favours from hosting team St. Gallen in this Super League game. Here's your thorough guide!

Insights:
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (32) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most scored goals (71) in Super League

Zürich have already won the Super League. Congratulations! It will be interesting to see if this affects performances here at the final stages.

Both contenders have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's aim for an animated match!

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St. Gallen form and stats

The overall Super League results playing at home this season for St. Gallen are 6-7-3 (wins-draws-losses).

The St. Gallen goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.

It's back home for St. Gallen, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Servette away with the result 2-0. Lungoyi and Fazliji found the net in that victory. Midfield player Fazliji got a match rating of 7.5 in that game, the max score being 10. Fazliji scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Lugano.

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.

The manager Zeidler will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Young Boys in only three days.

Gallen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Kybunpark with 31 goals in 16 league matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 25 goals have been conceded.

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Zürich form and stats

Zürich's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Zürich collect 33 points from their 16 away matches in the Super League. 10 victories and 3 draws have created these points (and only 3 defeats).

Zürich play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Basel (placed 2nd). Ceesay has scored at least one goal for the visitors three matches in a row. The smartness! Brecher (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.62. Brecher topped it up with a clean sheet.

That result followed a home victory 5-1 versus Sion.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Zürich playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were two Zürich wins, three draws and one defeat.

Zürich are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 30 times in 16 away games so far. As opposed to that, Zürich have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Zürich - Gallen 0-3 was the score in these contenders' latest H2H fixture, earlier this season. Previous ten meetings between these contenders: St. Gallen won three, Zürich triumphed in four and we saw three draws. nine games with over 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

St. GallenK. Duah
K. Duah
12 goals
ZürichA. Marchesano
A. Marchesano
12 goals
ZürichA. Ceesay
A. Ceesay
11 goals

St. Gallen missing players

Zürich missing players

St. Gallen Zürich
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
32 16 4 Played P 3 16 32
13 6 1 Won W 2 10 22
8 7 2 Drew D 0 3 6
11 3 1 Lost L 1 3 4
60 31 8 Scored S 4 30 71
54 25 8 Conceded C 2 20 38
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
94% 94% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 88% 84%
69% 62% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 56% 66%
47% 50% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 44% 47%
25% 25% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 19%
66% 69% 75% BTTS BTTS 33% 56% 59%
22% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 31% 31%
12% 19% 25% Failed to Score F T 33% 12% 9%
 
5.7 5.6 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 5.2 5.1
4.9 5.1 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.4 5
2.4 2.7 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.5
7 4 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
12.1 12.1 9.8 Shots (avg) S ( 12 12.4 12.4
5.1 4.9 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5.4 5.7
37% 39% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 34% 39%
 
11.3 11.4 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.7 12.2 10.8
5.1 5.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.5 4.1
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (32) in Super League
  • St. Gallen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Zürich have the fewest conceded goals (38) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (18) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most points (33) away in Super League
  • Zürich have the most points from losing position (18) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most scored goals (71) in Super League
  • Zürich have the the best goal difference (+33) in Super League
  • Zürich 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 Zürich 32 22 6 4 71 38 16 12 3 1 41 18 16 10 3 3 30 20 33 72
2 Basel 32 14 14 4 67 39 16 7 7 2 36 18 16 7 7 2 31 21 28 56
3 Young Boys 32 14 11 7 70 44 16 9 5 2 34 20 16 5 6 5 36 24 26 53
4 St. Gallen 32 13 8 11 60 54 16 6 7 3 31 25 16 7 1 8 29 29 6 47
5 Lugano 32 14 5 13 42 48 16 8 3 5 22 22 16 6 2 8 20 26 -6 47
6 Servette 32 12 5 15 45 57 16 7 3 6 23 24 16 5 2 9 22 33 -12 41
7 Grasshopper 32 8 12 12 50 51 16 4 6 6 30 31 16 4 6 6 20 20 -1 36
8 Sion 32 9 7 16 39 60 16 6 3 7 17 20 16 3 4 9 22 40 -21 34
9 Luzern 32 6 12 14 40 59 16 5 3 8 21 27 16 1 9 6 19 32 -19 30
10 Lausanne Sport 32 4 8 20 34 68 16 3 4 9 22 36 16 1 4 11 12 32 -34 20

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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.