FC Schaffhausen vs Neuchatel Xamax FC Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

FC Schaffhausen

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FC Schaffhausen will be looking for an improved result here after the 2-0 Challenge League defeat in their last game at the hands of FC Aarau.

Andrin Hunziker (25') and Valon Fazliu (33') scored for FC Aarau.

It’s not been often in recent games that FC Schaffhausen have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that FC Schaffhausen have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 15 goals along the way.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that FC Schaffhausen:

• haven't lost in the league to Neuchatel Xamax FC in their previous 4 games.
• have not registered a win against Neuchatel Xamax FC in their last 2 league matches.

Neuchatel Xamax FC

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Neuchatel Xamax FC will come into the encounter following on from a 3-0 Challenge League win with the eclipse of AC Bellinzona in their last fixture.

For Neuchatel Xamax FC, the goalscorers were Marvin Spielmann (5') and Aimery Pinga (87').

The stats tell the story, and Neuchatel Xamax FC have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 11 goals in total. Defensively, Neuchatel Xamax FC have some weaknesses to address. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Neuchatel Xamax FC are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings dating back to 05/11/2021 tells us that FC Schaffhausen have won 3 of these games and Neuchatel Xamax FC 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 10 of them from Schaffhausen and 5 belonging to Xamax. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league match between these clubs was Challenge League match day 19 on 29/01/2023 which ended up with the score at Neuchatel Xamax FC 1-1 FC Schaffhausen.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Schaffhausen

Kader Abubakar (Unknown Injury), Raúl Bobadilla (Unknown Injury), Leonit Sahitaj (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Agustín González (Unknown Injury) and Javi Navarro (Muscle Injury) won’t be able to feature for FC Schaffhausen boss Martin Andermatt. Suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Yassin Maouche and Simone Stroscio.

ℹ️ Team News: Neuchatel Xamax FC

Thanks to a fully injury-free group to choose from, the Neuchatel Xamax FC boss Stéphane Henchoz doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that Neuchatel Xamax FC should be able to score against this FC Schaffhausen side, although it isn’t expected to be as many as they’ll concede.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning score for FC Schaffhausen at the end of the match. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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

Peter Guest, 00:25 20/05/2023