📊 Form Guide

St Gallen

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St Gallen enter this fixture following on from a 1-1 Super League draw against Grasshopper Club Zürich.

In that game, St Gallen had 51% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for St Gallen was Chadrac Akolo (45'). Grasshoppers got 4 attempts at goal with 0 on target. Bradley Fink (80') scored for Grasshopper Club Zürich.

It has been all too rare in recent times that St Gallen have shown defensive steel. The facts show that St Gallen have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 9 goals during that time. It will be interesting to see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

FC Luzern

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In their previous fixture, FC Luzern drew 2-2 in the Super League tie with Servette FC.

In that game, FC Luzern managed 52% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For FC Luzern, goals were scored by Pius Dorn (5') and Adrian Grbic (54'). At the other end, Servette had 14 shots on goal with 4 on target. Takuma Nishimura (1', 41') was the scorer for Servette FC.

The numbers tell their own story, and FC Luzern have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 8 goals in total. Defensively, FC Luzern certainly have room for improvement.

Ahead of this clash, FC Luzern are winless against St Gallen when they've played them away from home in the last 8 league matches. Very poor away form.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 13/08/2022 shows us that St Gallen have won 2 of them and FC Luzern 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between them in these games, with 12 for Espen and 9 for Die Leuchten. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Super League match day 22 on 04/02/2024 when it ended FC Luzern 1-0 St Gallen.

On that occasion, FC Luzern managed 47% possession and 19 shots on goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Thibault Klidje (71').

At the other end, St Gallen had 17 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Alessandro Dudic.

📋 Team News: St Gallen

The St Gallen boss Peter Zeidler does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: FC Luzern

FC Luzern manager Mario Frick has to choose a team with limited availability. Samuel Alabi (Cruciate ligament tear), Kevin Spadanuda (Metatarsal fracture), Sofyan Chader (Torn muscle fiber), Ismajl Beka (Cruciate ligament tear) and Diego Heller (Wrist fracture) will miss out on this game.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that St Gallen should convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

Conversely, FC Luzern may well find it hard getting goals but we do fancy them pulling one back during this clash, too.

We reckon that it will be a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning score for St Gallen when the full-time whistle blows.

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

Renata Leite, 14:02 01/04/2024