National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Luzern or Young Boys that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Luzern's stadium, swissporarena, has a grass surface. Young Boys have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Young Boys when playing on grass; 19 wins, 8 draws and 10 losses from 37 matches. They have scored 73 goals in these games and conceded 56.
Luzern form and stats
Last season their Swiss Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.Overall Super League stats at home this season for Luzern are 5-2-4 (wins-draw-losses). This match is a Swiss Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Luzern, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
Luzern shared the glory with Thun in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Before that, Luzern had a Super League home game versus St. Gallen which ended with a victory 1-0.
The manager F. Celestini will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Lugano in only four days.
The Luzern fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 11 matches. Luzern have conceded 14 in these home matches.
Young Boys form and stats
Young Boys's mission in Swiss Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals against Luzern.As the visiting team in Super League matches, Young Boys have produced an overall stat of 4-4-4 so far. Total Swiss Cup statistics for Young Boys: 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Young Boys has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to St. Gallen for a Super League game that ended a draw (3-3). Prior to that match, the Young Boys manager G. Seoane faced defeat when travelling to Lugano and losing 1-2.
As you can tell from the result, the match against St. Gallen was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Goalkeeper David von Ballmoos made a total of six saves, making him a hero against St. Gallen. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes. The draw against St. Gallen came from a losing position. The Young Boys manager G. Seoane brought on Guillaume Hoarau as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Thun.
Young Boys has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 19 goals from 12 games. In the opposite end, Young Boys have conceded 21 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Luzern three wins, one draw and Young Boys six victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 J. Nsamé 18 goals |  F. Margiotta 6 goals | I. Ndiaye 5 goals |
Luzern missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Luzern | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 35 | 16 | Scored | S | 15 | 46 | ||
| 30 | 15 | Conceded | C | 21 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 52% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 20% | ||
| 48% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 16% | ||
| 5.3 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.4 | ||
| 5.7 | 5.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 5 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 265 | 139 | Total Shots | T S | 121 | 299 | ||
| 115 | 62 | Shots on Target | S O | 43 | 112 | ||
| 29% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | St. Gallen | 23 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 51 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 45 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 45 |
| 3 | Basel | 23 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 48 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 24 | 40 |
| 4 | Servette | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 37 |
| 5 | Zurich | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 45 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 32 |
| 6 | Luzern | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -5 | 31 |
| 7 | Lugano | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Sion | 23 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 28 | 41 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -13 | 23 |
| 9 | Neuchatel Xamax | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 19 |
| 10 | Thun | 23 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -23 | 19 |