Young Boys greet Lugano as obvious favourites: Full betting preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Wed 01.December
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

Lugano can not expect any donations from hosting team Young Boys in this Super League fixture. Here's your thorough guide!

Insights:
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Super League
  • Lugano have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Super League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Young Boys and Lugano.

Young Boys's stadium, Stadion Wankdorf, has a artifical turf surface. Lugano have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Lugano when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss from seven matches. They have scored 12 goals in these games and conceded 7.

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Young Boys form and stats

When playing at home in the Super League, Young Boys have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games.

The fans are hoping that Young Boys will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Super League game against Zurich (placed 1st). Midfielder Michel Aebischer was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Aebischer hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and had 47 successful passes (of 56 total).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Atalanta that ended 3-3.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Young Boys, as the Super League home game vs Servette is only three days away.

Goals decide football matches and Young Boys are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 5 league matches. From these home matches, Young Boys have conceded only 4 goals.

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Lugano form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Lugano hope to make it five in this match.

Lugano play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Grasshopper (placed 5th). World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager M. Croci-Torti when Olivier Custodio scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 52nd minute. Midfield player Jonathan Sabbatini was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.62/10. Sabbatini hit one key pass and had 43 successful passes (of 53 total).

Before that, Lugano secured a home win against Luzern with the score 3-1.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Sion in just four days.

Lugano find the net regularly in their away games. 10 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Lugano have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Young Boys-Lugano H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Young Boys five wins, Lugano two wins, three draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
7 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
6 goals
Young BoysM. Elia
M. Elia
4 goals

Young Boys missing players

Lugano missing players

Young Boys Lugano
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 5 1 Played P 2 7 14
6 3 1 Won W 2 4 8
4 2 0 Drew D 0 0 2
3 0 0 Lost L 0 3 4
29 10 4 Scored S 3 10 21
15 4 0 Conceded C 0 8 15
92% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 71% 86%
54% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 29% 36%
46% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 21%
31% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 14%
62% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 50%
23% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 43% 29%
23% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 21%
 
7.3 8.4 7 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.9 4.8
3.7 4.4 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.3 4.9
2.6 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.4 16.4 12 Shots (avg) S ( 2.5 8.1 10.5
6.8 6.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.1 4.2
33% 30% 80% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 45% 36%
 
6.8 6.4 8 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 10.4 10.8
2.8 2.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 4.3 4.3
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Super League
  • Lugano have the most matches under the total-line (9) in Super League
  • Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Young Boys have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Young Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (21) 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 Zurich 15 9 4 2 33 24 7 5 2 0 18 9 8 4 2 2 15 15 9 31
2 Basel 14 8 5 1 32 13 7 4 2 1 18 6 7 4 3 0 14 7 19 29
3 Lugano 14 8 2 4 21 15 7 4 2 1 11 7 7 4 0 3 10 8 6 26
4 Young Boys 13 6 4 3 29 15 5 3 2 0 10 4 8 3 2 3 19 11 14 22
5 Grasshopper 15 4 6 5 25 23 8 3 3 2 16 12 7 1 3 3 9 11 2 18
6 Servette 15 5 3 7 26 30 8 3 1 4 15 17 7 2 2 3 11 13 -4 18
7 Sion 15 5 3 7 19 29 8 3 1 4 10 11 7 2 2 3 9 18 -10 18
8 St. Gallen 15 4 3 8 20 31 7 2 3 2 11 11 8 2 0 6 9 20 -11 15
9 Lausanne Sport 15 2 5 8 16 31 8 1 3 4 9 18 7 1 2 4 7 13 -15 11
10 Luzern 15 1 7 7 19 29 8 1 2 5 11 16 7 0 5 2 8 13 -10 10

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.