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BSC Young Boys will be the visitors at Kybunpark on Sunday for the Super League clash with home team St Gallen.
Our St Gallen v BSC Young Boys tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below (inc. the best betting odds).
📏 Form Guide
St Gallen
WLLDDD
St Gallen prepare for this fixture following on from a 3-3 Super League drawn game versus FC Lausanne-Sport.
In that match, St Gallen had 42% possession and 15 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. For St Gallen, the goalscorers were Chadrac Akolo (7'), Jordi Quintillà (24') and Jovan Milošević (80'). Lausanne-Sport had 17 shots on goal with 6 on target. Noë Dussenne (34') and Donat Rrudhani (78', 86') scored for FC Lausanne-Sport.
It’s not been often in recent games where St Gallen have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that St Gallen have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals in the process. That kind of pattern might not be carried forward into this game, though.
Going into this encounter, St Gallen have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.
BSC Young Boys
LLWLDW
BSC Young Boys go into this encounter following on from a 3-0 Super League win vs Grasshopper Club Zürich in their last fixture.
In that match, BSC Young Boys had 50% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For BSC Young Boys, the scorers were Meschak Elia (6'), Silvère Ganvoula (18') and Joël Monteiro (21'). For their opponents, Grasshoppers had 13 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.
During their 6 previous matches, Joël Magnin's BSC Young Boys have fired home a total of 9 times, yielding them the goals per game average of 1.5.
Going into this encounter, BSC Young Boys haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 04/09/2022 shows that St Gallen have won 2 of these & BSC Young Boys 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 0.
20 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 6 from Espen and 14 created by Young Boys. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.
The last league game between the two was Super League match day 17 on 09/12/2023 when it finished BSC Young Boys 3-0 St Gallen.
That day, BSC Young Boys managed 53% possession and 18 shots on goal with 7 on target. The scorer was Jean-Pierre Nsame (33', 49').
At the other end, St Gallen had 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Jozo Stanić (21' Own goal) scored.
The referee was Urs Schnyder.
ℹ️ Team News: St Gallen
The St Gallen boss Peter Zeidler will be thankful to have no fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad available for selection.
📋 Team News: BSC Young Boys
BSC Young Boys manager Joël Magnin has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Filip Ugrinic (Broken toe), Fabian Lustenberger (Hamstring injury), Kastriot Imeri (Torn lateral knee ligament) and Loris Benito (Cruciate ligament tear) are not ready for selection.
💭 Prediction
We’re of the view that BSC Young Boys and St Gallen could well end up finding themselves trading goals here.
Shouldn’t be much in it, and there should be goals with a draw being quite a realistic outcome. Our tip is therefore for a hard-fought 2-2 score draw by the conclusion of the match.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 14:02 07/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
St Gallen
Formed: 1879
Stadium: Kybunpark (19,456)
Captain: Lukas Görtler
Chairman: Matthias Hüppi
Manager: Peter Zeidler
Competitions: Super League position 6
⭐ Star Man: Chadrac Akolo
Typically taking up the Right Wing position, Chadrac Akolo was born in Kinshasa, DR Congo (Zaire). Having made his senior debut playing for FC Sion in the 2013 - 2014 season, the gifted Forward has hit 11 league goals in the Super League 2023 - 2024 campaign so far coming from a total of 29 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 58 | LWLDW |
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31 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 54 | WDLLL |
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31 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 53 | WWWWD |
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31 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 48 | LDDDW |
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31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | -1 | 46 | WDWDD |
6 |
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30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 43 | LLDDD |
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31 | 12 | 7 | 12 | -3 | 43 | LLDDW |
8 |
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31 | 9 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 37 | WLWWD |
9 |
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31 | 10 | 6 | 15 | -11 | 36 | LDDLW |
10 |
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30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | -21 | 34 | LWLDL |
11 |
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30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | -7 | 30 | DLDLL |
12 |
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31 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -29 | 23 | WDLWL |
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FC Luzern |
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FC Luzern |
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FC Luzern |
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Lugano |
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Stade Lausanne-Ouchy |
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Winterthur |
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Servette FC |
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Goals scored | 2.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.3 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 45 |
Yellow cards | 2.9 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.7 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1.2 |
Time first goal scored | 31 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 2.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.8 |
Biggest victory | 4-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-1 |
Chadrac Akolo | 12 |
Willem Geubbels | 8 |
Mihailo Stevanović | 4 |
Albert Vallci | 4 |
Fabian Schubert | 3 |
Joël Monteiro | 12 |
Jean-Pierre Nsame | 9 |
Meschak Elia | 8 |
Silvère Ganvoula | 7 |
Cedric Itten | 7 |
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