Zürich are located at 1st, while Lugano are bringing up the rear 13 points behind in the league standings. Will they decrease the gap?
- Zürich have the most clean sheets (6) in Super League
- Zürich have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Lugano have scored away.
Lugano could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Swiss Cup game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Thun. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Zürich form and stats
Home games in the Super League have been a walk in the park for Zürich so far, with 26 points won from 10 matches; 8 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Zürich haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Basel, 140 days ago.
A strong away win for Zürich against Grasshopper the last match, as Gnonto, Ceesay and Aiyegun were on target. Ceesay, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the best player for the side in that fixture, scoring a rating of 7.8 (out of 10). Ceesay scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match, Zürich won a home game hosting Servette (1-0).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Zürich have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found twelve games) they have won five times, drawn four and lost three.
Goals are plentiful at Stadion Letzigrund in the league this season as Zürich has scored 26 goals here in 10 home games.
Lugano form and stats
The visitors are W4-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Luzern in the Super League.Lugano are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, four draws and three defeats. From a total of nine matches.
Lugano have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 12 goals have been scored. 13 goals have been conceded by Lugano in these games.
Head 2 Head
The squads have played each other before in this season, with the match result Zürich - Lugano 1-0 registered in the official records. Last ten meetings involving these contenders: Zürich won six, Lugano were winners in two and we saw two draws. three games with over 2,5 goals, seven matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  A. Marchesano 8 goals |  A. Ceesay 5 goals | D. Gnonto 5 goals |
Zürich missing players
Lugano missing players
| Zürich | Lugano | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 14 | 8 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 47 | 26 | 9 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 27 |
| 27 | 10 | 4 | Conceded | C | 6 | 13 | 26 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 70% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 85% |
| 75% | 70% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 30% | 40% |
| 65% | 60% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 30% | 25% |
| 20% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 15% |
| 65% | 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 50% |
| 30% | 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 25% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 30% | 25% |
| 4.8 | 4.3 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.2 | 4.3 |
| 5 | 4.5 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.7 | 11.9 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 7.8 | 10.3 |
| 5.2 | 5.4 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.9 | 4 |
| 45% | 48% | 64% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 10% | 41% | 34% |
| 10.9 | 9 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 11.4 | 11.4 |
| 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
- Lugano haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zürich have not yet lost a game at home.
- Zürich have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Zürich have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Lugano have scored away.
- Zürich have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Zürich have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Super League
- Zürich have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (12) in Super League
- Zürich have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Super League
- Zürich have the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in Super League
- Zürich have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Super League
- Zürich have the most clean sheets (6) in Super League
- Zürich have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Super League
- Zürich have the most points (26) at home in Super League
- Zürich have the most points from losing position (16) in Super League
- Zürich have the most scored goals (26) at home in Super League
- Zürich have the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Super League
- Zürich have the the best goal difference (+16) at home in Super League
- Zürich haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zürich is in the best form (6-0-0) 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 | Zürich | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 47 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 20 | 46 |
| 2 | Basel | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 44 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 22 | 37 |
| 3 | Young Boys | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 47 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 22 | 36 |
| 4 | Lugano | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 33 |
| 5 | Servette | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 33 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 15 | -1 | 28 |
| 6 | Sion | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 38 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 27 | -9 | 25 |
| 7 | Grasshopper | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 33 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | St. Gallen | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 30 | 43 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 24 | -13 | 20 |
| 9 | Lausanne Sport | 20 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -24 | 12 |
| 10 | Luzern | 20 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 41 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 20 | -20 | 11 |
