Football betting preview: Young Boys favourites when Servette visits

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 21.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

Young Boys have performed better than Servette so far this season, but every game starts at 0-0. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming game:

Insights:
  • Young Boys has the most scored goals (36) in Super League
  • Young Boys have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Servette have scored 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 Servette.

Young Boys's stadium, Stadion Wankdorf, has a artifical turf surface. Servette 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 Servette when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss from six matches. They have scored 12 goals in these games and conceded 9.

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Young Boys form and stats

23 points is a decent return from 10 Super League games here at Stadion Wankdorf for Young Boys. The data says 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Young has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Servette defeat 70 days ago. Young Boys are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

A nice win for Young last time playing, versus Bayer Leverkusen. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-3 with Meschack Elia, Christian Fassnacht and Jordan Siebatcheu (2) scoring for the victors. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Lugano.

A goal frenzy last time out for Young Boys, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Bayer Leverkusen. Fun stuff to watch! Young goalkeeper David von Ballmoos did an outstanding job against Bayer Leverkusen with six saves, so vital to securing the victory.

Young are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 16 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 13, drew two and lost one.

There will be little rest for Young after this match as they are travelling to Bayer Leverkusen for a Europa League game in only four days.

Young Boys have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadion Wankdorf with 17 goals in 10 league matches. Young's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Servette form and stats

Servette have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Super League, after 3-1-6 (10 played).

Servette has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Lugano for a Super League game that ended a draw (1-1). It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Lausanne Sport wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.

As mentioned above, Servette drew the match against Lugano. Manager A. Geiger brought on Alex Schalk to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.

You'll want to know how Servette managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found two similar matches resulting in one away win, one draw and zero home wins.

The attacking power of Servette when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. Servette have conceded 14 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Young Boys - Servette 1-2 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - four - three (Young wins - draws - Servette wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
11 goals
YoungT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
8 goals
ServetteG. Kyei
G. Kyei
8 goals

Young Boys missing players

Servette missing players

Young Boys Servette
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 2 10 20
14 7 0 Won W 1 3 6
5 2 2 Drew D 0 1 7
1 1 0 Lost L 1 6 7
36 17 2 Scored S 1 8 22
15 10 2 Conceded C 1 14 26
80% 90% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
70% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 70% 75%
60% 70% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 40%
25% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 20%
15% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
55% 70% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 60%
45% 30% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 20%
20% 10% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.5 2.6 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
14.1 15.1 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 11.8 10.7
6 6.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.5 4.2
30% 26% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 10% 18% 27%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Servette haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals (15) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most points (23) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most points from losing position (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most scored goals (36) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most scored goals in the first half (23) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the the best goal difference (+21) 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 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Servette have scored away.
  • Young Boys is in the best form (5-1-0)

  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 20 14 5 1 36 15 10 7 2 1 17 10 10 7 3 0 19 5 21 47
2 Basel 20 9 4 7 31 29 10 4 4 2 17 17 10 5 0 5 14 12 2 31
3 Zurich 20 8 4 8 31 27 10 4 2 4 13 10 10 4 2 4 18 17 4 28
4 St. Gallen 20 7 7 6 23 22 10 4 2 4 12 12 10 3 5 2 11 10 1 28
5 Lugano 20 5 12 3 21 21 10 3 4 3 9 11 10 2 8 0 12 10 0 27
6 Servette 20 6 7 7 22 26 10 3 6 1 14 12 10 3 1 6 8 14 -4 25
7 Lausanne Sport 20 6 5 9 25 28 10 5 0 5 15 12 10 1 5 4 10 16 -3 23
8 Sion 20 4 9 7 24 30 10 3 5 2 14 12 10 1 4 5 10 18 -6 21
9 Luzern 19 5 5 9 31 30 10 3 5 2 18 11 9 2 0 7 13 19 1 20
10 Vaduz 19 3 6 10 16 32 9 2 2 5 9 15 10 1 4 5 7 17 -16 15

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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.