Lugano vs FC Zürich Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Lugano

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Lugano will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 4-1 Swiss Cup victory vs St Gallen.

Matches featuring Lugano have usually been entertaining encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past half dozen games, a grand total of 22 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 12 of them accredited to Lugano.

Analysis of their past results shows that Lugano:

• haven't beaten FC Zürich in games played at home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven't won against FC Zürich in their last 7 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

FC Zürich

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In their previous game, FC Zürich drew 2-2 in the Super League match with FC Lausanne-Sport.

In that match, FC Zürich managed 50% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For FC Zürich, goals were scored by Assan Ceesay (56') and Antonio Marchesano (92'). At the other end, FC Lausanne-Sport got 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Goduine Koyalipou (32') and Stjepan Kukuruzović (63') scored for FC Lausanne-Sport.

The stats don’t lie, and FC Zürich have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 6 goals in all. Defensively, FC Zürich have seen their frailties exposed. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, however.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on past results between these clubs stretching back to 13/12/2020 reveals that these encounters have not been kind to Lugano. They have not managed to get any victories at all whereas FC Zürich have been the better of the two, beating them in 100 per cent of those games played.

An aggregate of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 0 from Lugano and 11 for Der Stadtclub. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was Super League match day 21 on 13/02/2022 when the final score was FC Zürich 3-0 Lugano.

In that match, FC Zürich managed 38% possession and 17 shots on goal with 7 on target. Goals were scored by Antonio Marchesano (12'), Wilfired Gnonto (64') and Assan Ceesay (66').

At the other end, Lugano got 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Luca Cibelli.

📋 Team News: Lugano

We think that Lugano will probably opt for a 4-1-2-3 formation for this one, utilising Amir Saipi, Kevin Rueegg, Kreshnik Hajrizi, Reto Ziegler, Milton Valenzuela, Sandi Lovric, Olivier Custodio, Jonathan Sabbatini, Numa Lavanchy, Zan Celar and Mattia Bottani.

📋 Team News: FC Zürich

From a largely full-strength squad, there is only a single fitness problem for the FC Zürich boss André Breitenreiter to contend with. Becir Omeragic (Meniscal Injury) misses out for this game. Antonio Marchesano will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

We are inclined to think that Der Stadtclub will likely elect for a 3-1-4-2 lineup, starting the game with Zivko Kostadinovic, Silvan Wallner, Lindrit Kamberi, Karol Mets, Ousmane Doumbia, Fabian Rohner, Bledian Krasniqi, Ante Coric, Akaki Gogia, D. Wilfried Gnonto and Assan Ceesay.

🔮 Prediction

It looks to us that Lugano are likely to be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

In contrast, FC Zürich may well struggle to score a goal of their own although we do reckon that they could well end up scoring as well.

Our selection here is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Lugano at the end of this one.

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Andre Moura, 23:56 14/05/2022