📊 Form Guide

FC Zürich

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FC Zürich, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 3-0 Super League victory vs Grasshopper Club Zürich.

In that match, FC Zürich managed 59% possession and 17 shots on goal with 5 on target. For FC Zürich, goals were scored by Cheveyo Tsawa (18'), Jahnoah Markelo (22') and Damienus Reverson (85'). Grasshoppers got 7 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

Three or more goals per match were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where FC Zürich have been involved. Opposition teams scored 10 of them in this period while FC Zürich amassed a tally of 7. That sort of trend might not follow through into this next game, though.

Heading into this fixture, FC Zürich are unbeaten in the league by Winterthur in their previous 5 games.

Winterthur

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Winterthur head into the match following a 1-4 Super League win with the eclipse of St Gallen in their most recent game.

In that match, Winterthur had 36% possession and 14 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Winterthur, the goals were scored by Josias Lukembila (30'), Matteo Di Giusto (35'), Nishan Burkart (53') and Labinot Bajrami (78'). On the other side, St. Gallen got 21 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Lukas Daschner (21') was the scorer for St Gallen.

A sequence of very capable performances from the Winterthur defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 2 from their past 6 fixtures combined. During the same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 10.

Coming into this meeting, Winterthur are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes going back to 28/02/2024 tells us that FC Zürich have won 3 of these and Winterthur 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.

An aggregate of 14 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 9 of them for Der Stadtclub and 5 being from Winterthur. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The last league game between these sides was Super League match day 31 on 05/04/2025 and the score finished Winterthur 0-0 FC Zürich.

That time, Winterthur managed 43% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

FC Zürich had 15 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Alessandro Dudic.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Zürich

Benjamin Mendy (Torn muscle fiber), Juan José Perea (Achilles tendon rupture) and Fernand Goure (Knee problems) will be missing for FC Zürich boss Ricardo Moniz.

ℹ️ Team News: Winterthur

Winterthur manager Uli Forte has multiple availability issues to deal with. Tobias Schättin (unknown injury) and Fabian Rohner (Cruciate ligament tear) are not ready for selection.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Winterthur will likely create enough chances to break down this FC Zürich team, however it may not quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our tip is for a narrow 2-1 winning margin for FC Zürich after the 90. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Lucas Pereira, 18:06 13/05/2025