Super League match preview: Young Boys versus Lugano

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 19.December
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Neufeld (14000 seats)

1st position in the Super League table for Young Boys so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 5th-placed Lugano visits Stadion Neufeld.

Insights:
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Super League
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.

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 and Lugano.

Young's stadium, Stadion Neufeld, 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; 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses from eleven matches. They have scored 14 goals in these games and conceded 15.

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Young Boys form and stats

13 points is a decent return from 6 Super League games here at Stadion Neufeld for Young Boys. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Young Boys are returning here after visiting Basel in a Super League game and winning with a 2-0 scoreline. Jean-Pierre Nsame and Meschack Elia scored the goal(s). Preceding that match was the home game against Servette that was lost 1-2.

Young are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at St. Gallen awaits in three days.

Young Boys has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Young have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Lugano form and stats

1 win, 4 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Lugano playing as the away team in the Super League this season. Lugano has drawn their two previous away games.

Lugano are looking to quickly end their 180 minutes long goal drought in the Super League.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to St. Gallen (placed 3rd) in their previous outing. The Super League match ended in a draw 0-0. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Zurich.

A new game in only four days for Lugano, the Super League home match versus Lausanne Sport. Busy days.

Lugano have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. Lugano are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between the teams: Young Boys won seven, Lugano won one and two draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
6 goals
Young BoysM. Elia
M. Elia
3 goals
Young BoysF. Mambimbi
F. Mambimbi
3 goals

Young Boys missing players

Lugano missing players

Young Boys Lugano
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 2 Played P 1 5 10
7 4 1 Won W 0 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 1 4 5
1 1 1 Lost L 0 0 1
16 8 3 Scored S 0 5 11
7 5 3 Conceded C 0 4 8
73% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 90%
64% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 50%
55% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 30%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 20%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
45% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 50%
55% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 40%
27% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 20%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 1.5 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2.6
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
15.8 17 13 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8 8.5
6.4 6.7 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 3.3
23% 20% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 33%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lugano have not yet lost a game away.
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most matches under the total-line (8) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most points from losing position (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the the best goal difference (+9) in Super League
  • 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.
  • Young Boys is in the best form (4-1-1)

  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 11 7 3 1 16 7 6 4 1 1 8 5 5 3 2 0 8 2 9 24
2 Basel 12 6 1 5 18 15 6 4 1 1 12 9 6 2 0 4 6 6 3 19
3 St. Gallen 11 5 4 2 11 9 5 2 2 1 5 5 6 3 2 1 6 4 2 19
4 Zurich 12 5 3 4 19 15 5 3 1 1 10 4 7 2 2 3 9 11 4 18
5 Lugano 10 4 5 1 11 8 5 3 1 1 6 4 5 1 4 0 5 4 3 17
6 Servette 11 4 2 5 10 12 5 2 2 1 5 5 6 2 0 4 5 7 -2 14
7 Luzern 12 3 4 5 18 19 6 1 4 1 9 8 6 2 0 4 9 11 -1 13
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.