FC Zürich vs Grasshopper Club Zürich Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

FC Zürich

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FC Zürich go into this fixture following on from a 1-1 Super League draw vs BSC Young Boys.

In that game, FC Zürich had 32% possession and 4 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for FC Zürich was Bledian Krasniqi (29'). For their opponents, Young Boys Bern had 14 shots on goal with 4 on target. Lewin Blum (21') was the scorer for BSC Young Boys.

In their preceding six games, Bo Henriksen's FC Zürich have hit the back of the net 7 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.17.

Coming into this clash, FC Zürich are undefeated in their previous 9 home league matches. It's been impressive.

Grasshopper Club Zürich

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Grasshopper Club Zürich come into this meeting following on from a 2-0 Super League win with the eclipse of FC Luzern in their most recent match.

In that game, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 48% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Grasshopper Club Zürich, the goals were scored by Hayao Kawabe (68') and Noah Loosli (76'). Luzern had 17 shots on goal with 5 on target.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 clashes involving Grasshopper Club Zürich, at least three goals have gone in. The overall average goals scored per match during that spell is 4.17, with the number of goals averaged by Grasshopper Club Zürich working out to 2.

Going into this encounter, Grasshopper Club Zürich are undefeated by FC Zürich when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 23/10/2021 tells us that FC Zürich have won 2 of these games and Grasshopper Club Zürich 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Super League match day 21 on 19/02/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Grasshopper Club Zürich 1-2 FC Zürich.

In that game, Grasshopper Club Zürich had 46% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Renat Dadaşov (30').

On the other side, FC Zürich got 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Aiyegun Tosin (66', 73') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Urs Schnyder.

🗞️ Team News: FC Zürich

In all likelihood, Der Stadtclub should go for a 3-1-4-2 system for this one, utilising Yanick Brecher, Lindrit Kamberi, Nikola Katic, Fidan Aliti, Cheick Conde, Nikola Boranijasevic, Ifeanyi Matthew, Blerim Dzemaili, Adrian Guerrero, Fabian Rohner and Antonio Marchesano.

🗞️ Team News: Grasshopper Club Zürich

Grasshopper Club Zürich manager Giorgio Contini has not got a full squad to pick from. Tomás Ribeiro (Unknown Injury), Filipe de Carvalho Ferreira (Knee Injury), Guilherme Schettine (Unknown Injury) and Francis Momoh (Knee Surgery) won’t be making appearances. Christian Herc will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

It’s our belief that GCZ might utilise a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Andre Moreira, Bendeguz Bolla, Noah Loosli, Ayumu Seko, Dominik Schmid, Amir Abrashi, Hayao Kawabe, Giotto Morandi, Meritan Shabani, Petar Pusic and Shkelqim Demhasaj.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Grasshopper Club Zürich have it within them to breach the defence of this FC Zürich outfit, but that probably won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re tipping both teams to score in a 2-1 winning score for FC Zürich after 90 minutes. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:52 17/05/2023