About Match
Lugano go into the game 1st in the table on 19 points; Basel sit 4th on 13 — a 6-point gap. Per game in the league, Lugano score 2.71 and conceding 0.86, Basel 2 and 1.75, against a competition average of 1.86 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Basel on 16 points and up to 2nd, other results permitting.
8 matches unbeaten back Lugano's arrival, having scored in 15 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Lugano 13/15, Basel 7/15.
GioScore's database holds 14 meetings between the two: 7 for Lugano, 4 for Basel and 3 drawn, at 3.14 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 36% of meetings won.
Stadio di Cornaredo in Lugano stages the fixture, a ground that holds 6,390.