Grasshopper Club Zürich vs Winterthur Live Stream, Predictions

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Grasshopper Club Zürich

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Grasshopper Club Zürich head into this game after a 1-1 Super League drawn match versus St Gallen.

In that match, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 39% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Grasshopper Club Zürich was Schettine (5'). St. Gallen had 21 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Gregory Karlen (33') was the scorer for St Gallen.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Grasshopper Club Zürich have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Grasshopper Club Zürich have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 11 goals on the way.

Winterthur

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In the game prior to this, Winterthur drew 1-1 in the Super League tie with BSC Young Boys.

In that match, Winterthur had 36% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Winterthur was Roman Buess (62'). Young Boys Bern had 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Meschak Elia (21') was the scorer for BSC Young Boys.

In their previous six outings, Winterthur have amassed the sum of 6 goals. Winterthur have also scored in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, their defenders have had 6 goals scored by their opponents. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Their past results show that Winterthur:

• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• are without an away win for the past 7 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 18/09/2020, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Grasshopper Club Zürich winning 3 of those games, Winterthur 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 18 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 10 of them from GCZ and 8 for Winterthur. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The last league game between these sides was Super League match day 11 on 15/10/2022 when it ended Winterthur 1-0 Grasshopper Club Zürich.

In that game, Winterthur had 37% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Samir Ramizi (51').

At the other end, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 12 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Luca Cibelli.

🗞️ Team News: Grasshopper Club Zürich

Tsiy William Ndenge (Ill) and Francis Momoh (Knee Surgery) are unavailable for Grasshopper Club Zürich gaffer Giorgio Contini.

In our view, GCZ will possibly use a 3-4-1-2 formation for this game featuring André Moreira, Ayumu Seko, Noah Loosli, Tomas Ribeiro, Bendegúz Bolla, Amir Abrashi, Hayao Kawabe, Dominik Schmid, Meritan Shabani, Renat Dadashov and Guilherme Schettine.

📰 Team News: Winterthur

Winterthur boss Bruno Berner has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Nishan Burkart (Unknown Injury) and Samir Ramizi (Meniscal Injury) are not able to play.

We reckon that Winterthur might elect for a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Markus Kuster, Adrian Gantenbein, Yannick Schmid, Granit Lekaj, Tobias Schättin, Thibault Corbaz, Eris Abedini, Samuel Ballet, Matteo Di Giusto, Sayfallah Ltaief and Joaquín Ardaiz.

💡 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Winterthur have it within them to find the back of the net against this Grasshopper Club Zürich outfit, but that realistically won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re tipping a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Grasshopper Club Zürich after 90 minutes. It really should be an interesting one.

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

Peter Guest, 02:35 08/03/2023