FC Basel 1893 vs Grasshopper Club Zürich Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

FC Basel 1893

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FC Basel 1893 will play in this game coming off the back of a 3-3 Super League stalemate vs Servette FC.

In that match, FC Basel 1893 had 54% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 on target. For FC Basel 1893, the goals were scored by Zeki Amdouni (43', 88') and Wouter Burger (69'). Servette had 18 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Chris Bedia (41'), Hussayn Touati (73') and Miroslav Stevanović (81') scored for Servette FC.

FC Basel 1893 have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, although they’ve also done enough to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, FC Basel 1893 have conceded in 6 of them while also scoring in 5 of those games. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Their prior results show that FC Basel 1893:

• are winless against Grasshopper Club Zürich in their previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Grasshopper Club Zürich

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In their last game, Grasshopper Club Zürich drew 2-2 in the Super League tie with St Gallen.

In that match, Grasshopper Club Zürich managed 44% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Grasshopper Club Zürich, goals were scored by Shkelqim Demhasaj (3') and Tsiy-William Ndenge (81'). On the other side, St. Gallen had 26 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Emmanuel Latte Lath (26') and Lukas Görtler (91') scored for St Gallen.

In their previous six outings, Grasshopper Club Zürich have bagged a tally of 12 goals. Grasshopper Club Zürich have also scored on each one of those occasions. Over that period, their defenders have had 13 goals scored by their opponents.

Their previous form shows that Grasshopper Club Zürich:

• haven't won against FC Basel 1893 in games played away from home for the previous 9 league games. A really bad run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 20/03/2022 shows that FC Basel 1893 have won 3 of them and Grasshopper Club Zürich 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 24 in all at an average of 4 goals per match.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Super League match day 19 on 04/02/2023 when it ended Grasshopper Club Zürich 1-0 FC Basel 1893.

In that match, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 45% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Hayao Kawabe (94').

FC Basel 1893 got 17 shots on goal with 6 on target.

The match was refereed by Urs Schnyder.

🗞️ Team News: FC Basel 1893

Adriano Onyegbule (Ill), Emmanuel Essiam (Ill) and Arnau Comas (Thigh Problems) are not available for FC Basel 1893 manager Heiko Vogel. Taulant Xhaka is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

We think that Basel will possibly line up in a 4-3-1-2 system for the game, beginning the first half with Marwin Hitz, Dan Ndoye, Michael Lang, Andy Pelmard, Liam Millar, Andy Diouf, Fabian Frei, Wouter Burger, Darian Males, Zeki Amdouni and Jean Kevin Augustin.

📰 Team News: Grasshopper Club Zürich

Grasshopper Club Zürich manager Giorgio Contini has to currently contend with reduced team options. Filipe de Carvalho (Knee Injury), Francis Momoh (Knee Surgery) and Giotto Morandi (Unknown Injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Amir Abrashi and Bendegúz Bolla.

We are inclined to think that GCZ will likely play in a 4-3-1-2 lineup, giving starts to André Moreira, Teruki Hara, Noah Loosli, Tomas Ribeiro, Dominik Schmid, Christian Herc, Tsiy William Ndenge, Hayao Kawabe, Meritan Shabani, Shkelqim Demhasaj and Renat Dadashov.

⚡ Prediction

Grasshopper Club Zürich will have to work hard as a team to get anything against this FC Basel 1893 side who we think will be able to grind out a win.

We’re therefore seeing a good battle with a 1-0 victory for FC Basel 1893 at the end of the 90.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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Renata Leite, 23:41 24/05/2023