Zürich believe to sell some tickets for this match despite that the season has been grim up to now with 29 points and a 8th position in the Super League table. Guests Basel are in 5th place with 34 pts.
- Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (10) in Super League
The visiting Basel played their last game only four days ago, a Swiss Cup match.
Zürich form and stats
3 victories, 6 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Zürich have to build on here at Stadion Letzigrund in the Super League.
An away draw last time out for Zürich, facing St. Gallen in a game that ended 2-2. The hometeam coach Henriksen made a successful contribution in the game against St. Gallen, bringing on Okita who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw. Džemaili (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.15/10. Džemaili served one assist and hit three key passes.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Luzern in a game that was won 2-1.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Zürich have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 2 and lost 3.
Zürich has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. On the other hand, Zürich have conceded 19 goals.
Basel form and stats
There's been little loot from Basel's travels as they have only collected 13 points from 13 away games in the Super League. Basel only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 4 draws.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Swiss Cup home loss versus Young Boys with 2-4 on the scoreboard.
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Winterthur in the Super League.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Basel playing away and similar expectations, we found 12 relevant matches. Results were 6 Basel wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
17 goals have been conceded by Basel in these games.
Head 2 Head
The duelists have played before this season: Basel - Zürich 0-0. The ref showed his red card when these teams last played each other, and the culprit was Santini (Zürich). H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zürich five wins, two draws and Basel three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Aiyegun 11 goals |   A. Zeqiri 7 goals |  J. Okita 6 goals |
Zürich missing players
Basel missing players
| Zürich | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 26 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 27 | 15 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 13 | 35 |
| 39 | 19 | 6 | Conceded | C | 3 | 17 | 31 |
| 85% | 77% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 85% |
| 73% | 69% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 62% | 69% |
| 46% | 54% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 38% | 42% |
| 31% | 31% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 23% | 35% |
| 15% | 23% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 15% |
| 54% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 46% | 54% |
| 27% | 31% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 23% | 27% |
| 35% | 31% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 35% |
| 4.4 | 3.8 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 6.2 | 6 |
| 5.3 | 5.8 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.6 | 5 |
| 2.9 | 1.9 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.8 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 11.1 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 11.4 | 13.3 |
| 3.7 | 3.4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.1 | 5.5 |
| 28% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 20% | 25% |
| 9.8 | 9.1 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 13 | 11.1 |
| 4.1 | 3.8 | 6.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
- Zürich have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (10) 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 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 60 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 41 | 54 |
| 2 | Servette | 26 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 32 | 34 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 20 | -2 | 39 |
| 3 | St. Gallen | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 48 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 25 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | Lugano | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 39 | 38 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 35 |
| 5 | Basel | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 35 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 34 |
| 6 | Grasshopper | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 40 | 42 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -2 | 34 |
| 7 | Luzern | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 39 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 33 |
| 8 | Zürich | 26 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 27 | 39 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 20 | -12 | 29 |
| 9 | Sion | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 32 | 50 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 22 | -18 | 26 |
| 10 | Winterthur | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 46 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 25 | -24 | 26 |
