National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Kriens or Zürich that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's hope for an enthusiastic fixture!
Kriens form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Swiss Cup for Kriens, as the manager D. Morandi led his troops to eliminate Vevey Sports, and reach the 2nd Round. Kriens participated in Swiss Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.Kriens have played three Challenge League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 0 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead. It's trouble wherever Kriens are playing these days as they have suffered five straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
No payout for Kriens in their previous match, an away game at Vaduz that ended in defeat 1-4.
Ahead of that match, Kriens lost 0-2 at home to Wil.Kriens has scored 3 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Kriens have allowed the opposition to score 8 goals here at Stadion Kleinfeld.
Zürich form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Solothurn in order to reach 2nd round of Swiss Cup. Zürich's mission in Swiss Cup last season failed in the 2nd round.2-1-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Zürich in their Super League matches away.
Zürich play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-4 to Young Boys. Moritz Leitner got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, top player of the team. Leitner hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total). Zürich lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
Ahead of that match was the Super League away draw versus St. Gallen that ended 3-3.After this away game Zürich return home for a Super League game against Servette. That game is only four sleeps after this.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Zürich are regular goalscorers on their travels. The Zürich manager A. Breitenreiter has some worries about the defense as 8 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: zero - zero - three (Kriens wins - draws - Zürich wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Marchesano 4 goals |   L. Mulaj 1 goals | A. Avdijaj 1 goals |
Kriens missing players
Zürich missing players
| Kriens | Zürich | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 33 | 13 | Scored | S | 25 | 49 | ||
| 47 | 18 | Conceded | C | 25 | 41 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 90% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 84% | ||
| 64% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 64% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 70% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 10% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 24% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.7 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6.1 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.1 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 4.2 | ||
| 37% | 59% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 39% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Winterthur | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 3 | Vaduz | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Aarau | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | Thun | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Wil | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | FC Schaffhausen | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 9 | Yverdon Sport | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -9 | 2 |
| 10 | Kriens | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -12 | 1 |
| 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 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 13 |
| 2 | Basel | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
| 3 | Servette | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Young Boys | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Sion | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 8 |
| 6 | Lugano | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | Grasshopper | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 8 | St. Gallen | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 6 |
| 9 | Lausanne Sport | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 3 |
| 10 | Luzern | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 3 |