Football insights: Zürich vs Basel - predictions and stats

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 28.August
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Letzigrund (26104 seats)

This has all the signs of quite the appealing skirmish at Stadion Letzigrund in the Super League. Zürich is in 10th position and welcome Basel in 8th place. Learn more about the match here!

Insights:
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals (1) in Super League
  • Basel have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Super League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Zürich and Basel.

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Zürich form and stats

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

Zürich are returning here after guesting Hearts in a Europa League match and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.

Before that one, a fine away win at Cham. A Swiss Cup match. 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 8 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 2 and lost 1.

Zürich has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 3 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Basel form and stats

The visitors settled for one point in their first Super League away game of the season. During their previous season 18 away games resulted in 7 wins, 9 draws and 2 defeats.

Basel have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 225 minutes ago. Ndoye was the goal scorer.

The followers enjoyed Basel's previous fixture versus CSKA Sofia, a Europa Conference League win (2-0) played at home. That defeat was their first after three consecutive league matches winning points. Midfielder Frei was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.84. Frei scored one goal and hit one key pass.

Before that, the Swiss Cup win away at Allschwil. 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 7 relevant matches. Results were 2 Basel wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Basel have the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Zürich-Basel H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Zürich five wins, Basel four wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ZürichF. Rohner
F. Rohner
1 goals
BaselW. Burger
W. Burger
1 goals
BaselD. Ndoye
D. Ndoye
1 goals

Zürich missing players

Basel missing players

Zürich Basel
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 1 1 4
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
2 1 1 Drew D 1 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored S 1 1 2
10 3 0 Conceded C 1 1 4
80% 50% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 75%
80% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 75%
40% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 50%
20% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
80% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 50%
 
5.2 6.5 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3 5.8
4.6 5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 11 11 6.2
3 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 4 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.4 11.5 14 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9 13.8
3.8 3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5 5.5
5% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 20% 9%
 
12.4 12 16 Shots against (avg) S A 7 7 10
6 5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2 3.8
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Basel have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals (1) in Super League
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most conceded goals (10) in Super League
  • Zürich have the most conceded goals in the second half (8) in Super League
  • Zürich have the the worst goal difference (-9) in Super League
Zürich Last season Basel
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
36 18   Played P   18 36
23 12   Won W   7 15
7 4   Drew D   9 17
6 2   Lost L   2 4
78 45   Scored S   31 70
46 23   Conceded C   21 41
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 92%
86% 83%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   78% 86%
69% 78%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   50% 53%
47% 56%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   44% 42%
19% 28%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 17%
64% 67%   BTTS BTTS   56% 61%
28% 28%   Clean Sheets C S   44% 33%
8% 6%   Failed to Score F T   17% 14%
 
5.2 5.2   Corners for (avg) C F   4.4 5.1
5.2 4.6   Corners against (avg) C A   5.4 5.2
2.4 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.4
1 0   Red cards R C   2 4
 
12.2 12.5   Shots (avg) S (   10.5 12.3
5.6 5.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.4 5.3
39% 43%   Goal Efficiency G E   39% 37%
 
11.3 9.6   Shots against (avg) S A   12.7 12.1
4.2 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 4.5

  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 5 3 2 0 11 1 3 2 1 0 8 1 2 1 1 0 3 0 10 11
2 St. Gallen 5 3 0 2 10 5 3 3 0 0 8 1 2 0 0 2 2 4 5 9
3 Grasshopper 5 2 3 0 9 7 2 2 0 0 5 3 3 0 3 0 4 4 2 9
4 Sion 5 2 2 1 8 7 3 0 2 1 2 5 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 8
5 Servette 5 2 2 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 1 4 -1 8
6 Lugano 5 2 0 3 10 8 2 0 0 2 3 5 3 2 0 1 7 3 2 6
7 Luzern 4 1 2 1 4 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 5 -2 5
8 Basel 4 0 3 1 2 4 3 0 2 1 1 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 -2 3
9 Winterthur 5 0 2 3 3 9 3 0 2 1 3 6 2 0 0 2 0 3 -6 2
10 Zürich 5 0 2 3 1 10 2 0 1 1 0 3 3 0 1 2 1 7 -9 2

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.