📊 Form Guide

Grasshopper Club Zürich

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Grasshopper Club Zürich will be wanting a better result here after the 2-1 Super League defeat in their last game at the hands of FC Basel 1893.

In that match, Grasshopper Club Zürich managed 44% possession and 10 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player to score for Grasshopper Club Zürich was Giotto Morandi (70'). At the other end, Basel got 15 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Dominik Schmid (16') and Philip Otele (40') scored for FC Basel 1893.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Grasshopper Club Zürich have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Grasshopper Club Zürich have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 9 goals during that time.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Grasshopper Club Zürich:

• have not registered a win against FC Luzern in their previous 6 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

FC Luzern

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Last time out, FC Luzern drew 1-1 in the Super League tie with St Gallen.

In that match, FC Luzern had 55% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for FC Luzern was Lars Villiger (2'). On the other side, St. Gallen got 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Chadrac Akolo (9') was the scorer for St Gallen.

Showing their appetite for productive encounters, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the last six matches in which FC Luzern have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.5 goals per meeting. Their opponents have hit 9 of these goals. That kind of trend might not be continued into this next game, however.

Ahead of this clash, FC Luzern remain unbeaten by Grasshopper Club Zürich in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head results stretching back to 27/08/2023 tells us that these fixtures have been disappointments for Grasshopper Club Zürich. They’ve not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever whereas FC Luzern have been too good for them, getting wins in 67% of those ties.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 3 of them from GCZ and 9 coming from Die Leuchten. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was Super League match day 13 on 03/11/2024 when the final score was FC Luzern 2-0 Grasshopper Club Zürich.

On that occasion, FC Luzern had 39% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Levin Winkler (8') and Donat Rrudhani (59').

For their opponents, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 14 shots on goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Johannes von Mandach.

📋 Team News: Grasshopper Club Zürich

Saulo Decarli (unknown injury) and Tugra Turhan (unknown injury) are not available for Grasshopper Club Zürich manager Tomas Oral.

📋 Team News: FC Luzern

FC Luzern manager Mario Frick has not got a full squad to pick from. Tyron Owusu (Torn muscle fiber), Nando Toggenburger (Inner ligament injury), Sofyan Chader (unknown injury) and Ismajl Beka (Metatarsal fracture) won’t be making appearances.

💡 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Grasshopper Club Zürich could find themselves up against it to put one past this FC Luzern side who we think will likely score & stay on top.

We’re therefore predicting a very even contest with a 0-1 victory for FC Luzern at the end of the 90.

Should be a close one.

Victor Martins, 14:04 06/04/2025