The Challenge League meeting at Stadio Comunale di Bellinzona on Friday sees home team AC Bellinzona take on FC Aarau.
Our AC Bellinzona v FC Aarau predictions, statistics and match poll can be seen below (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
AC Bellinzona
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AC Bellinzona will be hoping for a better result following the 2-1 Challenge League loss in their previous game against FC Schaffhausen.
Neftali Manzambi (92') was the scorer for FC Schaffhausen.
AC Bellinzona haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 2 vs opposing sides during the course of their last 6 matches. In those meetings, AC Bellinzona have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 8. That being said, time will tell if the trend shall be replicated in this next game or not.
Going into this encounter, AC Bellinzona haven’t won at home in the past 4 league games. Fans are getting restless.
FC Aarau
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FC Aarau will go into the match after a 2-0 Challenge League win with the downing of Baden in their most recent outing.
The only player to score from FC Aarau was Yannick Toure (80').
Over the course of 5 of the previous 6 games featuring FC Aarau, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opponents. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell comes out as a meagre 2.67, with the number of goals averaged by Aarau being 1.83.
Leading up to this clash, FC Aarau:
- have not lost to AC Bellinzona in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. A solid away record against them.
- are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.
- haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.
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Head to head
A glance at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 12/08/2022 tells us that AC Bellinzona have won 2 of them & FC Aarau 4, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.
15 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for Bellinzona and 11 for Aarau. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.
The last league encounter featuring these sides was Challenge League match day 10 on 08/10/2023 which ended up with the score at FC Aarau 1-2 AC Bellinzona.
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Team News: AC Bellinzona
The AC Bellinzona boss Carlo Tebi will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this match with a completely healthy squad to choose from. Rodrigo Pollero is ineligible for this match because of suspension.
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Team News: FC Aarau
In an otherwise healthy squad, there’s just a single fitness issue for the FC Aarau boss to be concerned with. Esey Gebreyesus (unknown injury) won’t be in action. Nikola Gjorgjev cannot play in this game through suspension.
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Prediction
We’re of the view that FC Aarau and AC Bellinzona may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.
At this stage, it appears to have the makings of a possible draw. That’s why we have predicted a very even match with a 0-0 draw after 90 minutes.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
19:10 28/03/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
AC Bellinzona
Formed: 1904
Stadium: Stadio Comunale di Bellinzona (6,000)
Captain: Manuel Rivera Garrido
Chairman: Gabriele Giulini
Manager: Carlo Tebi
Competitions: Challenge League position 9