Match Report
12 points and 3 places separated them: Basel 4th with 13, Lugano 1st with 25. Recent form told a different story for Basel: only 10th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 4th. Scoring rates set the scale: Basel 1.89 scored and 1.89 conceded per game, Lugano 3 and 0.78, with the league averaging 1.94.
Lugano entered with six wins in a row, having scored in 15 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Basel 7/15, Lugano 15/15.
GioScore's database holds 13 meetings between the two: 4 for Basel, 6 for Lugano and 3 drawn, at 3.08 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 38% of the wins in this matchup.
With 68 matches recorded and 2.0 yellow cards per game, D. Grundbacher was the man in the middle. The venue was St. Jakob-Park, with room for 37,994 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 4 more goals closed it at 1-3.
Goal scorers
Basel: Metinho (47') · Lugano: Yanis Cimignani (59'), Uran Bislimi (61'), Ahmed Kendouci (81')
Key stats
Possession: Basel 45% · Lugano 55% · Total shots: 5-23 · On target: 2-5 · Corners: 1-7