📏 Form Guide

Grasshopper Club Zürich

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Grasshopper Club Zürich head into this fixture after a 1-1 Super League draw vs St Gallen.

In that game, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 49% possession and 4 shots at goal with 0 on target. The only player to score for Grasshopper Club Zürich was Bradley Fink (80'). For their opponents, St. Gallen had 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Chadrac Akolo (45') was the scorer for St Gallen.

It’s not been often in recent games that Grasshopper Club Zürich have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Grasshopper Club Zürich have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 7 goals along the way.

Their past results show that Grasshopper Club Zürich:

• are unbeaten in the league by FC Lausanne-Sport in their last 4 games.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

FC Lausanne-Sport

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FC Lausanne-Sport come into this match following a 2-0 Super League win versus BSC Young Boys in their last match.

In that match, FC Lausanne-Sport had 39% possession and 13 shots on goal with 9 on target. For FC Lausanne-Sport, goals were scored by Kaly Sène (30') and Noë Dussenne (34'). At the other end, Young Boys Bern had 11 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

FC Lausanne-Sport have been a threat going forward in their most recent fixtures, scoring 10 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Ludovic Magnin will no doubt take that as a positive sign, FC Lausanne-Sport have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same games. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, of course.

Coming into this clash, FC Lausanne-Sport haven't beaten Grasshopper Club Zürich in away games against them for the last 13 league matches. Imagine their relief when they finally get an away win.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 07/08/2021 shows that Grasshopper Club Zürich have won 4 of these games & FC Lausanne-Sport 1, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A sum of 21 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 15 from GCZ and 6 coming from Lausanne. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The last league fixture between these sides was Super League match day 16 on 02/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Grasshopper Club Zürich 5-0 FC Lausanne-Sport.

In that match, Grasshopper Club Zürich managed 43% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Filipe de Carvalho (46', 50'), Tsiy-William Ndenge (57'), Awer Mabil (65') and Théo Ndicka (93').

FC Lausanne-Sport got 16 shots at goal with 4 on target.

The match was refereed by Nico Gianforte.

🗞️ Team News: Grasshopper Club Zürich

Manuel Kuttin (unknown injury), Giotto Morandi (unknown injury), Dirk Abels (unknown injury), Michael Kempter (Cruciate ligament injury), Damian Nigg (unknown injury), Meritan Shabani (Cruciate ligament tear) and Awer Mabil (unknown injury) won’t be able to feature for Grasshopper Club Zürich manager Bruno Berner.

📋 Team News: FC Lausanne-Sport

FC Lausanne-Sport manager Ludovic Magnin has to choose a team with limited availability. Trae Coyle (Cruciate ligament tear), Simone Grippo (unknown injury) and Samuel Kalu (ankle sprain) miss out here. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Noë Dussenne and Kaly Sène.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that FC Lausanne-Sport and Grasshopper Club Zürich should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very close game with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 14:02 01/04/2024