Match Report
Basel (3rd, 10 pts) visited Young Boys (1st, 15 pts) with 5 points between them. Scoring rates set the scale: Young Boys 3.71 scored and 2 conceded per game, Basel 1.83 and 1.5, with the league averaging 1.92.
Young Boys carried a 10-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 10 consecutive games.
GioScore's database holds 15 meetings between the two: 6 for Young Boys, 5 for Basel and 4 drawn, at 3.33 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 67% of the meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 60%. Where history says 3.33 goals per meeting, the last five say 4.4.
Stadion Wankdorf (Bern), capacity 32,000, hosted the game. With 99 matches recorded and 2.0 yellow cards per game, S. Schärer was the man in the middle. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Young Boys led 3-2 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 3-3.
Goal scorers
Young Boys: Joël Monteiro (7'), Samuel Essende (14'), Alvyn Sanches (45') · Basel: Kazeem Olaigbe (32'), Asane Sow (37'), Akpe Victory (71')
Key stats
Possession: Young Boys 53% · Basel 47% · Total shots: 21-12 · On target: 9-4 · Corners: 9-3