The betting markets forecast straightforward victory for Young Boys when Sion stop by

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 12.December
Match begins: 13:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

Young Boys have 25 points running out as the home side. Sion have claimed 18 points being the away side. Should we expect a home win?

Insights:
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (24) in Super League
  • Sion have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Super League

The hosts Young Boys saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Champions League. That game was an away game at Manchester United, so at least Young Boys are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Sion 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 3-1-4 (win-draw-loss) from eight matches.

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Young Boys form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stadion Wankdorf as Young Boys have scored 14 goals to get 14 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Super League are 4-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

An away draw last time out for Young Boys, facing Manchester United in a game that ended 1-1. The goalie Guillaume Faivre was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.44 out of ten. Faivre stopped the opponent with four saves.

Ahead of that match, Young Boys lost 1-2 at home to Servette.

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

Goals decide football matches and Young Boys are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 7 league matches. 7 goals have been conceded.

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Sion form and stats

Sion have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Super League, after 2-2-4 (8 played).

Sion lost away at Lugano (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Kevin Fickentscher (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.32. Fickentscher stopped the opponent with five saves.

Before that, Sion secured a home win against St. Gallen with the score 3-1.

With the host team identified as having a winning chance of about 80% by the bookies, any favourable result for the visiting team would be unexpected. Checking historical games with similar odds and Sion playing away, we found one results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and one defeat. The away team lost zero of these fixtures by at least two goals.

Sion find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Sion's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 20 goals in 8 travels.

Head 2 Head

The latest archived meeting involving both these sides is the Sion - Young Boys 1-0 played previously this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Young Boys victories, one draw and one Sion win. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
7 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
7 goals
Young BoysA. Kanga
A. Kanga
6 goals

Young Boys missing players

Sion missing players

Young Boys Sion
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 2 8 16
7 4 2 Won W 1 2 5
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
4 1 0 Lost L 1 4 8
33 14 6 Scored S 3 9 19
18 7 4 Conceded C 4 20 31
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 75%
60% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 50%
47% 43% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 38%
27% 14% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 19%
67% 71% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 69%
20% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 12%
20% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 19%
 
7.3 8 7.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.8 3.8
3.7 4.1 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 9 7.6 6.4
2.7 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.5
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.8 16.7 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 5 8.1 8.9
6.7 6.6 6.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.4 3.8
33% 30% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 33% 31%
 
7 7 7 Shots against (avg) S A 19 16.1 13.3
2.8 2.9 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 6.4 5.1
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Sion have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sion have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Super League
  • Sion have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Super League
  • Sion haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Young Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (24) 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 16 10 4 2 37 24 8 6 2 0 22 9 8 4 2 2 15 15 13 34
2 Basel 15 8 6 1 33 14 8 4 3 1 19 7 7 4 3 0 14 7 19 30
3 Lugano 16 9 2 5 24 18 8 5 2 1 13 7 8 4 0 4 11 11 6 29
4 Young Boys 15 7 4 4 33 18 7 4 2 1 14 7 8 3 2 3 19 11 15 25
5 Grasshopper 16 5 6 5 29 23 8 3 3 2 16 12 8 2 3 3 13 11 6 21
6 Servette 16 6 3 7 28 31 8 3 1 4 15 17 8 3 2 3 13 14 -3 21
7 Sion 16 5 3 8 19 31 8 3 1 4 10 11 8 2 2 4 9 20 -12 18
8 St. Gallen 16 4 3 9 20 35 8 2 3 3 11 15 8 2 0 6 9 20 -15 15
9 Lausanne Sport 16 2 6 8 17 32 8 1 3 4 9 18 8 1 3 4 8 14 -15 12
10 Luzern 16 1 7 8 19 33 8 1 2 5 11 16 8 0 5 3 8 17 -14 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.