📊 Form Guide

Winterthur

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Winterthur head into this fixture following on from a 0-0 Super League drawn result vs FC Zürich.

In that game, Winterthur had 44% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, FC Zurich got 21 shots on goal with 3 on target.

Their latest results show that things are going according to plan in the Winterthur defence. Winterthur have given the opposition little, seeing the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their last six games standing at 2.

Their prior results show that Winterthur:

• are winless against Lugano in their previous 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 4 home league matches.

Lugano

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Lugano will go into this encounter after a 2-0 Super League win with the defeat of FC Basel 1893 in their last fixture.

In that match, Lugano had 54% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Lugano, the goals were scored by Albian Hajdari (44') and Renato Steffen (69'). For their opponents, Basel had 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

In their previous 6 clashes, Lugano have amassed the sum of 13 goals. Lugano have also scored on each one of those occasions. During that period, they have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Heading into this fixture, Lugano are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 09/11/2022 shows that Winterthur have won 1 of these games and Lugano 5, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

17 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 of them for Winterthur and 11 belonging to Lugano. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league game featuring the two was Super League match day 17 on 10/12/2023 when it ended Lugano 2-1 Winterthur.

In that game, Lugano managed 53% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Goals were scored by Renato Steffen (39') and Žan Celar (83').

Winterthur got 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Samuel Ballet (92') was the scorer.

The referee was Sven Wolfensberger.

📰 Team News: Winterthur

Alexandre Jankewitz (unknown injury), Francisco Rodríguez (unknown injury), Roman Buess (unknown injury), Tobias Schättin (unknown injury), Musa Araz (Knee surgery) and Luca Zuffi (unknown injury) will be missing for Winterthur manager Patrick Rahmen.

ℹ️ Team News: Lugano

Lugano boss Mattia Croci-Torti has to choose a team with limited availability. Uran Bislimi (unknown injury), Kreshnik Hajrizi (unknown injury), Mohamed Belhadj Mahmoud (unknown injury), Milton Valenzuela (unknown injury) and Mattia Bottani (unknown injury) will not be playing here. Renato Steffen cannot play in this game through suspension.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Winterthur will really need to work well to be putting a goal past this Lugano team who we think will likely end up scoring and staying ahead.

We’re therefore seeing a hard-fought 0-1 winning score for Lugano when all is said and done.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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

Victor Martins, 15:05 06/04/2024