📏 Form Guide

FC Basel 1893

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FC Basel 1893 will be looking for an improved result here after a 6-2 Super League defeat in their last game at the hands of BSC Young Boys.

In that game, FC Basel 1893 managed 59% possession and 19 shots at goal with 6 on target. For FC Basel 1893, the scorers were Albian Ajeti (7') and Kevin Carlos (72'). Young Boys Bern got 15 shots at goal with 9 on target. Cedric Itten (10', 46'), Darian Males (29'), Christian Fassnacht (86', 93') and Chris Bedia (89') scored for BSC Young Boys.

FC Basel 1893 have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, although they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, FC Basel 1893 have conceded in 5 of them in addition to scoring in 6 of those matches.

Their past results show that FC Basel 1893:

• have not lost a league tie with FC Luzern in their last 2 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 home league matches.

FC Luzern

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Servette FC in Super League competition, FC Luzern will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, FC Luzern had 50% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For FC Luzern, goals were scored by Jakub Kadák (78') and Adrian Grbic (89', 98'). On the other side, Servette got 21 shots on goal with 10 on target. Miroslav Stevanović (4', 26'), Dereck Kutesa (73') and Alioune Ndoye (90') scored for Servette FC.

The stats don’t lie, and FC Luzern have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 11 goals in all. At the back, FC Luzern have clearly had some problems. That trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, however.

Leading up to this clash, FC Luzern:

• have left without a victory over FC Basel 1893 when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 17/12/2023 shows that FC Basel 1893 have won 2 of them & FC Luzern 1, with the number of draws being 3.

A combined total of 11 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 of them for Basel and 5 for Die Leuchten. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The previous league clash between the two was Super League match day 27 on 09/03/2025 which ended up with the score at FC Luzern 1-1 FC Basel 1893.

That time, FC Luzern had 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Stefan Knezevic (78').

On the other side, FC Basel 1893 had 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. Bénie Traoré (41') scored.

The referee was Urs Schnyder.

🗞️ Team News: FC Basel 1893

Dominik Schmid (unknown injury), Adriano Onyegbule (Knee injury) and Finn van Breemen (Meniscus injury) will be missing for FC Basel 1893 boss Fabio Celestini.

🗞️ Team News: FC Luzern

FC Luzern manager Mario Frick has to choose a team with limited availability. Bung Meng Freimann (unknown injury), Sofyan Chader (unknown injury) and Jesper Löfgren (unknown injury) can’t be considered.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, FC Luzern should be able to score a goal against this FC Basel 1893 outfit, however it might not be enough to avoid defeat.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for FC Basel 1893 at the end of the 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Lucas Pereira, 15:08 24/05/2025