Young Boys receive St. Gallen as clear favourites: Big match preview

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

A highly important game in Super League as both contenders are battling for the top league positions. With Young Boys in 1st position and St. Gallen at 3rd, this is almost guaranteed to be an exciting duel. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (22) in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (10) in Super League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Young Boys form and stats

3-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Young Boys so far this season.

It's back home for Young Boys, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Luzern away with the result 2-1. Elia and Nsame found the net in that victory. The victory against Luzern came after Nsame's winning goal. The Young Boys manager Wicky was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 74th minute. Defender Benito got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.05/10. Benito served one assist, hit two key passes and won 6 of 8 duels.

In the game before, a nice away win at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy. A Swiss Cup match.

Goals are coming in this club's league games, with 5 in a row containing three goals or more (over 2.5).

Young Boys are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (11 goals in 4 games). As for guarding their own goal, Young Boys have only let in 1 goal at home.

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St. Gallen form and stats

1-0-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for St. Gallen in their Super League matches away.

Gallen are travelling again after losing away to Basel in their previous match (2-3). Schmidt got a match rating of 7.34 in that game, top player of the team. Schmidt served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Earlier, the Swiss Cup win away at Etoile Carouge.

Goal alert! This side have played 6 consecutive league fixtures all with three or more than three goals (over 2.5 goals).

The travelling fans enjoy St. Gallen's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away. St. Gallen have conceded 9 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The previous H2H encounter ended St. Gallen - Young Boys 2-1, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Young Boys victories, three draws and three St. Gallen wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysJ. Nsamé
J. Nsamé
5 goals
Young BoysC. Itten
C. Itten
5 goals
Young BoysM. Elia
M. Elia
3 goals

Young Boys missing players

St. Gallen missing players

Young Boys St. Gallen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 1 4 9
6 3 1 Won W 0 1 5
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 1 3 4
22 11 3 Scored S 0 7 18
5 1 0 Conceded C 1 9 13
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 89%
78% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 75% 67%
22% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 75% 44%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 75% 44%
44% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 67%
56% 75% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 22%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 11%
 
5.8 4.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5 5.6
3.4 2.8 1 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.8 4.4
2.3 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3.2 2.7
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
12.8 14.8 18 Shots (avg) S ( 12 13 15.1
6.2 6.5 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5 6.8
39% 42% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 35% 30%
 
10.2 7.5 8 Shots against (avg) S A 7 11.5 10.3
4.8 2.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 5.2 5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Young Boys's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • St. Gallen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • St. Gallen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Gallen have the most scored goals in the first half (10) in Super League
  • St. Gallen 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 scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (5) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals (22) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the the best goal difference (+17) in Super League
  • Young Boys have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Young Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Young Boys is in the best form (4-1-1) 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 Young Boys 9 6 2 1 22 5 4 3 1 0 11 1 5 3 1 1 11 4 17 20
2 Servette 9 5 2 2 11 8 4 4 0 0 8 3 5 1 2 2 3 5 3 17
3 St. Gallen 9 5 0 4 18 13 5 4 0 1 11 4 4 1 0 3 7 9 5 15
4 Sion 9 4 2 3 13 14 5 1 2 2 5 9 4 3 0 1 8 5 -1 14
5 Grasshopper 9 3 4 2 15 16 4 3 1 0 9 4 5 0 3 2 6 12 -1 13
6 Basel 8 3 3 2 15 11 5 2 2 1 9 6 3 1 1 1 6 5 4 12
7 Lugano 9 4 0 5 15 15 4 1 0 3 6 8 5 3 0 2 9 7 0 12
8 Luzern 8 3 2 3 13 10 4 1 1 2 4 5 4 2 1 1 9 5 3 11
9 Winterthur 9 1 2 6 7 24 5 0 2 3 4 17 4 1 0 3 3 7 -17 5
10 Zurich 9 0 3 6 7 20 4 0 1 3 3 9 5 0 2 3 4 11 -13 3

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.