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FC Sion

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FC Sion will be hoping to bounce back here after the 3-1 Super League losing effort in their last game against Grasshopper Club Zürich.

In that match, FC Sion had 50% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for FC Sion was Kevin Bua (59'). On the other side, Grasshoppers had 14 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Young-jun Lee (1'), Kristers Tobers (62') and Tsiy-William Ndenge (90') scored for Grasshopper Club Zürich.

Didier Tholot's FC Sion have celebrated scoring a sum total of 10 times in their past 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that have been scored against them in those games amounts to 6.

Their past results show that FC Sion:

• have not registered a win against FC Basel 1893 in their last 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 7 home league matches.

FC Basel 1893

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FC Basel 1893 will go into this match following a 2-0 Super League win vs FC Yverdon-Sports in their most recent fixture.

In that game, FC Basel 1893 had 57% possession and 21 shots at goal with 8 on target. For FC Basel 1893, the goals were scored by Albian Ajeti (8') and Bradley Fink (55'). At the other end, Yverdon-Sport had 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

Fabio Celestini's FC Basel 1893 have had reason to celebrate scoring 14 times throughout their latest 6 matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during that period equals 5.

Coming into this meeting, FC Basel 1893 are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 06/02/2022 shows that FC Sion have won 1 of them & FC Basel 1893 2, with the number of draws standing at 3.

A combined sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 of them for Sion and 9 created by Basel. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Super League match day 30 on 27/04/2023 which finished with the scoreline of FC Sion 1-2 FC Basel 1893.

In that game, FC Sion had 50% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 on target. Their only player to score was Giovanni Sio (45').

For their opponents, FC Basel 1893 had 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Andi Zeqiri (17') and Dan Ndoye (40') scored.

The match was refereed by Lukas Fähndrich.

📰 Team News: FC Sion

Regarding absentees, there’s just the lone fitness concern for the FC Sion gaffer Didier Tholot to be concerned with due to a largely intact group of players. Reto Ziegler (unknown injury) won’t play.

🗞️ Team News: FC Basel 1893

FC Basel 1893 manager Fabio Celestini has some current player fitness concerns. Kevin Rüegg (unknown injury), Gabriel Sigua (Torn ankle ligaments) and Junior Zé (unknown injury) will miss out on this game.

✨ Prediction

FC Basel 1893 and FC Sion could both find goals hard to come by here.

We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very close game with a 0-0 draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 15:03 31/08/2024