Match Report
Basel (3rd, 10 pts) visited Young Boys (1st, 14 pts) with 4 points between them. Scoring rates set the scale: Young Boys 3.83 scored and 1.83 conceded per game, Basel 2 and 1.4, with the league averaging 1.94.
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. 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