📏 Form Guide

FC Aarau

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FC Aarau will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 3-1 Challenge League defeat in their last game at the hands of Neuchatel Xamax FC.

The only scorer from FC Aarau was Nikola Gjorgjev (61'). Danilo Del Toro (51') and Dominik Schwizer (55') scored for Neuchatel Xamax FC.

Matches involving FC Aarau have proved to be exciting affairs recently with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 games alone, a grand total of 20 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of them being chalked up by FC Aarau. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

FC Thun

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FC Thun head into the clash after a 1-0 Challenge League win against AC Bellinzona in their most recent match.

The only player to score from FC Thun was Marco Bürki (71').

A series of outstanding displays by the FC Thun defensive unit has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their past 6 outings overall. During the same period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 12.

Ahead of this meeting, FC Thun haven't beaten FC Aarau when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 07/10/2022 shows that FC Aarau have won 3 of these games & FC Thun 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A total of 20 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 11 from Aarau and 9 for Thun. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The previous league match between the two was Challenge League match day 22 on 16/02/2024 when it ended FC Thun 1-0 FC Aarau.

📰 Team News: FC Aarau

Yannick Toure (unknown injury) and Esey Gebreyesus (unknown injury) won’t be available for FC Aarau .

📰 Team News: FC Thun

FC Thun manager Carlos Bernegger has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Hermann Tebily (unknown injury) and Erik Wyssen (Hip injury) are not ready for selection.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that FC Thun will, in all probability, convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

However, FC Aarau will not find it easy to make a breakthrough but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet.

We’re therefore anticipating a pretty comfortable 1-3 win for FC Thun after 90 minutes.

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

Peter Guest, 18:04 19/04/2024