Home advantage could prove decisive in Zürich - Servette battle

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Competition: Switzerland Super League
Competition: Sun 05.March
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: GC/Campus (26000 seats)

Zürich will hope that their home advantage is enough to get all three points from this grim dispute, versus vibrant Servette.

Insights:
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Super League
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Servette could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Swiss Cup game only three sleeps ago. That game, against Rotkreuz, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Servette.

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Zürich form and stats

With 2 Super League wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Zürich are certainly not brimming with confidence. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Zürich, who played 2-2 against Young Boys. That match was also played at this venue (GC/Campus). Aiyegun has scored in three games in a row. First-class! Midfield player Conde got a match rating of 7.42 in that game, the max score being 10. Conde dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Grasshopper and winning 2-1.

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 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 3 and lost 3.

The Zürich fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 11 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Zürich defense is not exactly impregnable. 17 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Servette form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats.

Two trips in a row for Servette, whose boss Geiger could celebrate last time after the Swiss Cup win against Rotkreuz.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Winterthur.

We have checked recent matches where Servette have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Betting fact: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 9 of this club's latest 11 league matches.

The visiting Servette have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 12 goals from 11 games. Servette struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 18 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Zürich - Servette 4-1. Numbers for the previous ten meetings involving these two teams are: three wins for Zürich, one draw and six wins for Servette. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

ZürichT. Aiyegun
T. Aiyegun
8 goals
ZürichJ. Okita
J. Okita
5 goals
ServetteC. Bedia
C. Bedia
5 goals

Zürich missing players

Servette missing players

Zürich Servette
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
5 2 1 Won W 2 3 8
9 5 2 Drew D 1 4 10
8 4 0 Lost L 0 4 4
22 12 3 Scored S 5 12 28
33 17 2 Conceded C 3 18 28
82% 73% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 91% 86%
68% 64% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 82% 73%
45% 55% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 55% 50%
32% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 27% 32%
18% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 18% 14%
50% 55% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 55% 59%
32% 36% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 18% 27%
36% 36% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 36% 27%
 
4.4 3.9 1.3 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 5.1 5.9
5.1 5.5 8.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.6 4.4
2.9 1.9 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.5 2.1
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.8 10.6 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.4 11.1
3.7 3.3 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.5 3.9
27% 33% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 31% 33%
 
9.9 8.9 12.3 Shots against (avg) S A 13.3 16.6 13.3
4.2 3.7 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.4 4.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Servette have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Zürich have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Zürich have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) 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 22 13 8 1 51 16 11 8 3 0 31 7 11 5 5 1 20 9 35 47
2 Servette 22 8 10 4 28 28 11 5 6 0 16 10 11 3 4 4 12 18 0 34
3 St. Gallen 22 9 5 8 44 33 11 6 4 1 21 10 11 3 1 7 23 23 11 32
4 Luzern 22 7 9 6 34 32 11 3 5 3 15 15 11 4 4 3 19 17 2 30
5 Lugano 22 8 6 8 34 34 11 4 3 4 17 17 11 4 3 4 17 17 0 30
6 Basel 22 6 9 7 31 27 11 4 5 2 19 13 11 2 4 5 12 14 4 27
7 Grasshopper 22 6 6 10 33 38 11 5 2 4 20 18 11 1 4 6 13 20 -5 24
8 Zürich 22 5 9 8 22 33 11 2 5 4 12 17 11 3 4 4 10 16 -11 24
9 Sion 22 5 7 10 28 42 11 2 2 7 11 25 11 3 5 3 17 17 -14 22
10 Winterthur 22 5 7 10 19 41 11 4 3 4 10 20 11 1 4 6 9 21 -22 22

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.