📏 Form Guide

FC Zürich

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FC Zürich won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 1-0 Super League defeat last time out to FC Lausanne-Sport.

In that game, FC Zürich had 54% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Lausanne-Sport got 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Fousseni Diabaté (26') was the scorer for FC Lausanne-Sport.

Over their prior 6 fixtures, Murat Ural's FC Zürich have scored 7 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 1.17.

Analysis of their past results shows that FC Zürich:

• are winless against St Gallen in their last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 8 home league matches. A very good run at home.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

St Gallen

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St Gallen will go into this encounter following a 5-1 Super League win vs FC Yverdon-Sports in their most recent outing.

In that match, St Gallen managed 61% possession and 19 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For St Gallen, the scorers were Mattia Zanotti (17'), Víctor Ruiz (49'), Chadrac Akolo (56'), Bastien Toma (84') and Christian Witzig (90'). At the other end, Yverdon-Sport had 4 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Liziero (4') scored for FC Yverdon-Sports.

Looking at their form, and St Gallen have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals in all. In defence, St Gallen can certainly do much better.

Their past results show that St Gallen:

• haven't won against FC Zürich when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 30/07/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with FC Zürich winning 2 of those games, St Gallen 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 11 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 for Der Stadtclub and 6 being from Espen. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The last league game between the two was Super League match day 18 on 16/12/2023 and the score finished St Gallen 1-0 FC Zürich.

On that day, St Gallen managed 50% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player to score was Chadrac Akolo (39').

On the other side, FC Zürich got 11 attempts at goal with 7 on target.

The referee was Fedayi San.

🗞️ Team News: FC Zürich

The FC Zürich boss Murat Ural will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this match owing to a completely healthy group to pick from.

📰 Team News: St Gallen

Due to a fully injury-free group ready to go, the St Gallen manager Peter Zeidler has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, St Gallen will surely be able to get a goal against this FC Zürich team, but that probably shouldn’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re expecting a narrow 2-1 winning margin for FC Zürich after the 90. Let’s see what eventuates.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 14:07 21/04/2024