Young Boys vs Sion preview for betting prediction

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 31.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Neufeld (14000 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Young Boys leading Sion by 16 points.

Insights:
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Super League
  • Sion has the most conceded goals (14) away in Super League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Super League.

Sion play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Sion when playing on artifical turf are 3 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats from nine matches. They have scored 10 goals and conceded 12 times in these games.

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Young Boys form and stats

14 points is a decent return from 7 Super League games here at Stadion Neufeld for Young Boys. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper David von Ballmoos not having conceded a league goal in 187 minutes.

The home team returns to Stadion Neufeld after being equal after 90 minutes with Vaduz (placed 10th) on their last time out; the Super League game ended 0-0. A strong away win before that one, visiting Lugano and winning 2-0.

Young Boys 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 14 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won ten, drew three and lost one.

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

The Young fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 7 matches. 7 goals have been conceded.

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Sion form and stats

There's been little loot from Sion's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Super League. Sion, who have the most conceded goals (14) away in Super League, only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws.

The manager F. Grosso was unhappy after their last game, a Super League match played at their home ground Stade de Tourbillon. Sion suffered a 2-3 loss to Basel (placed 2nd). Prior to that result Sion won their away game at Lausanne Sport. The scoreline was 1-0.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Sion played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected four times.

After this away game Sion return home for a Super League game against St. Gallen. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Sion struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 14 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Sion - Young Boys 0-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Young won nine games, one match ended with a draw and Sion has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
7 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
4 goals
SionA. Grgic
A. Grgic
4 goals

Young Boys missing players

Sion missing players

Young Boys Sion
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 2 8 16
9 4 2 Won W 0 1 3
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 7
1 1 1 Lost L 1 4 6
22 10 4 Scored S 4 7 17
10 7 3 Conceded C 6 14 23
73% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 81%
67% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 69%
53% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 38% 44%
13% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 38% 31%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 25% 19%
47% 71% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 56%
53% 29% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 31%
27% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.1 1.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.8 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
14 16.4 16 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 9.8 8.8
5.7 6.6 6.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 3.1 3.1
26% 22% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 28% 35%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Sion has the most conceded goals (14) away in Super League
  • Sion has the the worst goal difference (-7) away in Super League
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the most points from losing position (9) in Super League
  • Young Boys has the the best goal difference (+12) 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.

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

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.