Football match betting preview: Young Boys vs Luzern

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 16.October
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

Young Boys - Luzern. 2nd spot welcomes 9th spot. Nothing is certain - get a complete game guide here!

Insights:
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Super League
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Super League

This should be an absorbing match with lots of action and bustle as both sides are well recovered since they last played a game. Bring it on!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Luzern have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-1-3 (win-draw-loss) from seven matches.

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Young Boys form and stats

Seven points from three Super League home games is a great start for Young Boys, who are hoping to build on that form here at Stadion Wankdorf. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Young Boys has won their last four matches.

Happy days for Young in their previous game, a Super League match away at Servette (placed 6th) that ended with a 6-0 victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Young played a great game against Servette and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. What a game it was for Christian Fassnacht when beating Servette, applying the finishing touch to three goals! Midfield player Christian Fassnacht got a match rating of 9.44 in that game, the max score being 10. Fassnacht scored three goals, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Atalanta (0-1).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Villarreal are coming to town in four days.

The Young manager D. Wagner has got the team scoring with 6 from 3 home games in the league. Defensively Young have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 3 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Luzern form and stats

As the visiting team in Super League matches, Luzern have produced an overall stat of 0-3-1 so far. Visiting Luzern has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Basel (placed 1st) in their previous outing. The Super League match ended in a draw 1-1. Midfielder Jordy Wehrmann was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.55. Wehrmann scored one goal and hit the woodwork once.

Preceding that, the 2-3 home loss versus Lugano.

Luzern are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). For Luzern, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Here's the final score when the contenders met previously this season; Luzern - Young Boys 3-4. Young Boys-Luzern H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Young seven wins, Luzern one win, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
6 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
5 goals
YoungM. Elia
M. Elia
4 goals

Young Boys missing players

Luzern missing players

Young Boys Luzern
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 3 1 Played P 1 4 9
5 2 1 Won W 0 0 0
2 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 4
23 6 2 Scored S 1 5 13
7 1 1 Conceded C 1 8 20
88% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 56%
50% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 56%
38% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 33%
50% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 100%
38% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
25% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
8.1 9.7 10 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.5 4.7
3.6 4.7 5 Corners against (avg) C A 8 5.5 5.2
2.5 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
15.5 17.3 17 Shots (avg) S ( 13 12 13.7
6.6 6.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 9 5.8 6.9
43% 30% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 22% 21%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Luzern's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Luzern have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Luzern have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Luzern have the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Super League
  • Luzern have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
  • Luzern have yet to win a game.
  • Luzern haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Young Boys have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (2) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (3) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+16) in Super League
  • Young Boys have won at least twice as many corners 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 Basel 9 5 4 0 23 8 5 3 2 0 16 5 4 2 2 0 7 3 15 19
2 Young Boys 8 5 2 1 23 7 3 2 1 0 6 1 5 3 1 1 17 6 16 17
3 Zurich 9 5 2 2 22 17 4 3 1 0 13 6 5 2 1 2 9 11 5 17
4 Lugano 8 4 2 2 13 10 5 2 2 1 6 5 3 2 0 1 7 5 3 14
5 Grasshopper 9 3 4 2 15 11 5 3 1 1 12 7 4 0 3 1 3 4 4 13
6 Servette 9 3 3 3 16 20 5 2 1 2 10 11 4 1 2 1 6 9 -4 12
7 Sion 9 2 3 4 12 22 4 2 1 1 6 5 5 0 2 3 6 17 -10 9
8 St. Gallen 9 1 3 5 13 23 4 0 3 1 6 8 5 1 0 4 7 15 -10 6
9 Luzern 9 0 5 4 13 20 5 0 2 3 8 12 4 0 3 1 5 8 -7 5
10 Lausanne Sport 9 0 4 5 9 21 4 0 2 2 5 11 5 0 2 3 4 10 -12 4

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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.