Match Report
7 points and 2 places separated them: Basel 4th with 53, St. Gallen 2nd with 60. Basel ranked just 20th in the league on five-round form despite their 4th table position. Per game in the league, Basel were scoring 1.55 and conceding 1.36, St. Gallen 1.94 and 1.21, against a competition average of 1.64 goals per team per game.
Recent form was uneven: 4/15 points for Basel, 10/15 for St. Gallen.
14 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Basel 5, draws 5, St. Gallen 4, at 2.57 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 64% of the meetings.
The venue was St. Jakob-Park, with room for 37,994 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 4 goals for the 1-3 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Basel: Nicolas Vouilloz (88') · St. Gallen: Aliou Baldé (51'), Carlo Boukhalfa (78'), Nevio Scherrer (89')
Key stats
Possession: Basel 61% · St. Gallen 39% · Total shots: 11-21 · On target: 2-6 · Corners: 10-8