Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Basel & Young Boys face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Swiss Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Champions League game only four days ago.
Young Boys play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Young Boys when playing on grass are 17 wins, 9 draws and 10 defeats from 36 matches. They have scored 71 goals and conceded 53 times in these games.
Basel form and stats
37 points is a decent return from 18 Super League games here at St. Jakob-Park for Basel. The data says 11 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. This match is a Swiss Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition. The last three games played by Basel, regardless of arena, have all ended draws. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
Stress levels are on the rise for Basel's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. Arthur was their last goal scorer. The Basel goalkeeper Dorde Nikolic is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 191 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.
Basel's previous game was a Swiss Cup match also played at home, ending 6-1 versus Winterthur. The home side are looking to build on that result. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Shakhtar Donetsk (1-4).
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Basel played a great game against Winterthur and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (42 in 18 games), Basel's attacking play is working. Basel are not conceding a lot of goals here at St. Jakob-Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 17 from 18 matches.
Young Boys form and stats
They also participated in Swiss Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals, when Luzern drew the shortest straw.Playing away, Young Boys have won 7 games, drawn 5 and suffered 6 defeats in the Super League this season. Total Swiss Cup statistics for Young Boys: 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Basel. It’s been three wins in a row for Young on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Young go into this game after a win, the home game against KI that ended 3-1.
Young Boys has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 29 goals from 18 games. As opposed to that, Young have seen the ball go into their own net 26 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Basel wins - draws - Young Boys wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Nsamé 32 goals |   A. Mendonça Cabral 14 goals |  K. Ademi 13 goals |
Basel missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Basel | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 19 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 4 | ||
| 51 | 26 | Scored | S | 16 | 62 | ||
| 28 | 12 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 32% | ||
| 44% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 8% | ||
| 5 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.2 | 6.3 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.7 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 326 | 176 | Total Shots | T S | 156 | 317 | ||
| 124 | 71 | Shots on Target | S O | 46 | 111 | ||
| 41% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 49% | ||
| 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 | 36 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 80 | 41 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 26 | 39 | 76 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 36 | 21 | 5 | 10 | 79 | 56 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 42 | 29 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 68 |
| 3 | Basel | 36 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 74 | 38 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 42 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 21 | 36 | 62 |
| 4 | Servette | 36 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 57 | 48 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 33 | 9 | 49 |
| 5 | Lugano | 36 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 46 | 46 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 0 | 47 |
| 6 | Luzern | 36 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 42 | 50 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 25 | -8 | 46 |
| 7 | Zurich | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 45 | 72 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 41 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 31 | -27 | 43 |
| 8 | Sion | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 40 | 55 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 27 | -15 | 39 |
| 9 | Thun | 36 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 45 | 67 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 29 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 38 | -22 | 38 |
| 10 | Neuchatel Xamax | 36 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 33 | 68 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 42 | -35 | 27 |