St Gallen vs FC Luzern Prediction & Betting Tips

The Super League fixture at Kybunpark on Thursday will see home side St Gallen play against FC Luzern.

Our St Gallen v FC Luzern tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

St Gallen LWWWDD

St Gallen head into this fixture following a 1-1 Super League drawn result against Servette FC.

The only player to score from St Gallen was Vincent Rüfli (18'). Miroslav Stevanović (61') scored for Servette FC.

Three or more goals per match were recorded in 5 of the past 6 meetings where St Gallen have taken part. Opposition teams scored 12 of them in this period while Espen amassed a tally of 11.

Ahead of this meeting, St Gallen are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

FC Luzern LDWWLD ⚖

Previously, FC Luzern drew 3-3 in the Super League tie with Lugano.

For FC Luzern, the goalscorers were Pascal Schürpf (61', 77') and Francesco Margiotta (69'). Numa Lavanchy (15'), Sandi Lovrić (23') and Filip Holender (47') scored for Lugano.

Fabio Celestini's FC Luzern have had reason to celebrate scoring 10 times throughout their latest sextet of matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that period equals 9.

Going into this one, FC Luzern are undefeated by St Gallen in away games against them for the last 6 matches in the league. A solid away record against them.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head meetings dating back to 16/12/2018 shows us that St Gallen have won 1 of these and FC Luzern 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

A combined sum of 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 6 of them from Espen and 11 created by Die Leuchten. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league match featuring the two was Super League match day 22 on 16/02/2020 which finished with the scoreline of FC Luzern 1-0 St Gallen.

The match was refereed by Sandro Schärer.

ℹ️ Team News: St Gallen

St Gallen manager Peter Zeidler has no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game with a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Luzern

Luzern manager Fabio Celestini has a number of players out of action. Darian Males (Unknown Injury), Ibrahima Ndiaye (Unknown Injury), Christian Schwegler (Ruptured intraarticular ligament initiation in knee), Marco Burch (Meniscal Injury) and Tsiy William Ndenge (Ruptured intraarticular ligament initiation in knee) are not ready for selection. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Lorik Emini and Stefan Knezevic.

🧠 Prediction

It looks to us that St Gallen have it within them to be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

At the same time, FC Luzern will be up against it to find the back of the net but we can see them managing to get on the scoresheet.

We can therefore see a controlled 3-1 winning score for St Gallen at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 23:08 13/07/2020