Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Luzern & Young Boys face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Swiss Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Luzern nor Young Boys as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
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; 16 wins, 9 draws and 11 losses from 36 matches. They have scored 69 goals in these games and conceded 55.
Luzern form and stats
Last season, Luzern's Swiss Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.Overall Super League stats at home this season for Luzern are 8-4-6 (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.
Luzern travelled for their previous game, a trip to Basel that ended 0-0. Ahead of that match, Luzern won a home game hosting Zurich (2-1).
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Rapperswil-Jona are coming to town in one day.
Luzern have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at swissporarena with 28 goals in 18 league matches. Luzern's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 25 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
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.7 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Young Boys playing as the away team in the Super League this season. Total Swiss Cup statistics for Young Boys: 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Luzern. Young have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Jean-Pierre Nsame (2) and Nicolas Ngamaleu scored in Young Boys's previous match, the home game against St. Gallen that ended 3-1. Prior to that result Young won their away game at Sion in the Super League. The scoreline was 1-0.
The travelling fans enjoy Young Boys's attacking play in away games, having scored 29 goals in 18 league matches away. As opposed to that, Young Boys 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 - one - six (Luzern wins - draws - Young Boys wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Nsamé 32 goals |   F. Margiotta 11 goals |  P. Schürpf 8 goals |
Luzern missing players
Young Boys missing players
| Luzern | Young Boys | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 17 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 5 | ||
| 33 | 22 | Scored | S | 15 | 58 | ||
| 36 | 21 | Conceded | C | 15 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 71% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 8% | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.7 | 6.1 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 204 | 109 | Total Shots | T S | 129 | 291 | ||
| 100 | 57 | Shots on Target | S O | 35 | 100 | ||
| 31% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 52% | ||
| 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 |