Match guide: Young Boys favourites when St. Gallen arrive

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sat 25.September
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Wankdorf

A victory to the home team is expected from this game if the league standings is to be believed. The Young Boys followers are hoping that the contrast between 3rd and St. Gallen's 8th place in the table will be revealed on the ground.

Insights:
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (10) in Super League
  • St. Gallen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Super League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

St. Gallen play their home fixtures on grass, while this fixture will take place on artifical turf. The latest statistics for St. Gallen when playing on artifical turf are 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats from six matches. They have created 11 goals and conceded 9 times on these occasions.

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Young Boys form and stats

Only two Super League home games for Young Boys so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

It's back home for Young, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Lausanne Sport away with the result 6-1. Meschack Elia, Ulisses Garcia, Christian Fassnacht (2), Jordan Siebatcheu and Wilfried Kanga found the net in that victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Young played a great game against Lausanne Sport and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Midfield player Michel Aebischer got a match rating of 8.13 in that game, the max score being 10. Aebischer served one assist, hit two key passes and had 38 successful passes (of 46 total).

In the preceding match a 7-1 victory visiting Iliria.

There will be little rest for Young Boys after this match as they are travelling to Atalanta for a Champions League game in only four days.

Young Boys has scored 4 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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St. Gallen form and stats

Things could have gone better for St. Gallen in their Super League away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right. Gallen seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

St. Gallen failed to get anything from their last game, a Super League home match vs Basel (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-2. Midfielder Lukas Görtler was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.45. Görtler hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 5 of 8 times.

Before that one, a nice away victory 7-2 at Chenois.

Gallen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 3 league away games 4 goals have been scored. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Gallen concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Young won five, St. Gallen were winners in two and we saw three draws. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Young BoysM. Elia
M. Elia
4 goals
Young BoysT. Siebatcheu
T. Siebatcheu
4 goals
YoungC. Fassnacht
C. Fassnacht
3 goals

Young Boys missing players

St. Gallen missing players

Young Boys St. Gallen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
6 2 1 Played P 0 3 7
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 1
2 1 1 Drew D 0 0 3
1 0 0 Lost L 0 2 3
15 4 0 Scored S 0 4 10
6 0 0 Conceded C 0 8 16
83% 50% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 71%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 43%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 29%
50% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 86%
33% 100% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 14%
 
7.2 9.5 12 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8.3 7.6
3.7 4.5 2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 6.4
2.5 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 2.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
14.8 17.5 23 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13 13.9
5.7 7 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.9
44% 29% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 29%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of St. Gallen's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • St. Gallen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • St. Gallen have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • St. Gallen have the fewest points from losing position (0) 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 the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most clean sheets (2) at home in Super League
  • Young Boys have the most scored goals in the second half (10) in Super League
  • Young Boys have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Young Boys have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  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 7 4 3 0 19 6 3 2 1 0 12 3 4 2 2 0 7 3 13 15
2 Zurich 7 4 2 1 15 12 3 2 1 0 7 4 4 2 1 1 8 8 3 14
3 Young Boys 6 3 2 1 15 6 2 1 1 0 4 0 4 2 1 1 11 6 9 11
4 Servette 7 3 2 2 15 13 3 2 0 1 9 4 4 1 2 1 6 9 2 11
5 Sion 6 2 2 2 8 12 3 2 0 1 5 4 3 0 2 1 3 8 -4 8
6 Lugano 5 2 1 2 7 7 3 1 1 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 4 3 0 7
7 Grasshopper 6 1 3 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 0 2 1 2 3 -1 6
8 St. Gallen 7 1 3 3 10 16 4 0 3 1 6 8 3 1 0 2 4 8 -6 6
9 Luzern 6 0 3 3 9 15 4 0 2 2 6 9 2 0 1 1 3 6 -6 3
10 Lausanne Sport 7 0 3 4 8 18 4 0 2 2 5 11 3 0 1 2 3 7 -10 3

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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.