National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's St. Gallen or Basel that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
St. Gallen form and stats
Last season their Swiss Cup adventure ended in the final.St. Gallen have performed here at Kybunpark this season with 6 wins from 11 Super League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 4 games and lost 1.
Happy days for St. Gallen in their previous game, a fixture away at Sion that ended with a 4-0 victory. As mentioned above, St. Gallen "killed" Sion in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Guillemenot, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the highest rated performer for the team in that match, earning a rating of 8.23 (out of 10). Guillemenot scored one goal and hit three key passes.
In the match before that, St. Gallen hosted Luzern and drew the Super League game 2-2.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Gallen handle that role? We have found 15 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 8 draws and 2 defeats.
The match schedule is unforgiving for St. Gallen as they have a new game in only four days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Grasshopper are visiting.
Gallen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Kybunpark with 21 goals in 11 league matches. St. Gallen are not conceding a lot of goals here at Kybunpark in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 11 matches.
Basel form and stats
Last season their Swiss Cup adventure ended in the round of 16.Basel have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Super League, after 2-4-5 (11 played).
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Lugano in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. Basel's last match (vs Lugano) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 83rd minute equalizer by Lang. The draw against Lugano came from a losing position. The Basel manager Vogel brought on Lang as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Males got a match rating of 8.8 in that game, top player of the team. Males scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and had 26 successful passes (of 31 total).
Before that match, the win at home against Trabzonspor in the Europa Conference League (2-0). Basel are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat. From a total of 5 matches.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Luzern.
The visiting Basel have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 12 goals from 11 games. It's worth mentioning that 13 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Basel have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Basel have won at least one point in the last 4 fixtures (1-3-0) facing St. Gallen.Top Goalscorers
  J. Guillemenot 8 goals |  L. Görtler 7 goals | E. Latte Lath 6 goals |
St. Gallen missing players
Basel missing players
| St. Gallen | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 68 | 14 | Scored | S | 20 | 37 | ||
| 39 | 10 | Conceded | C | 18 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 64% | ||
| 72% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 52% | 10% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 68% | 70% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 10% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 5 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6.3 | ||
| 4.2 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 14.9 | 15.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.5 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 5.8 | ||
| 35% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 27% | ||
| 11.3 | 13.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.4 | 12.1 | ||
| 5.2 | 6.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.4 | ||
| 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 | Zurich | 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 |
