Basel vs Luzern Prediction: Both teams looking for first win this year

The Swiss Super League's round of 18 matches will take place at St. Jakob-Park, where Basel will play host to Luzern. The first league game of the year that the two clubs played ended in a tie. They will, without a doubt, hold out hope that they will have a better performance in this encounter. As a result, we will examine each and every facet of this match in great detail.

Basel's previous games ended in draws against Sandhausen and St. Gallen, while they won two games against Lausanne Sport and lost one against Grasshopper. During the current league season, Basel has scored 1.29 goals on average in every game they have played. In terms of disciplinary actions, the home team has been given 45 yellow cards and 2 red cards, for a total of 11.29 fouls committed on average over all of their matches. The overall rating of the Basel team is 6.73 on a match-by-match basis. As of right now, Basel is currently in fifth place in the league standings with 22 points after playing in seventeen league matches.

Luzern comes into this match having won one of their previous five matches against VfB Stuttgart, lost none of them, and drawn four against Grasshopper, SC Freiburg, VfL Bochum 1848, and Zürich. The club was successful in scoring eight goals while also allowing five. Luzern had a goal scoring average of 1.53 and a goals against average of 1.53 when playing away from home. There were 47 yellow cards and six red cards handed out to the team. The rating that Luzern's team receives after each encounter is 6.77 on average. The current standings have Luzern in sixth place with 21 points after playing in eighteen league matches, just one point behind Basel in the standings.

Over the course of the past seasons, Basel and Luzern have competed against one another 67 times, with Basel emerging victorious 45 times and Luzern claiming 12 victories. A total of ten of the games were decided by a draw. During those contests, Basel scored a total of 137 goals, while Luzern only managed to score 73. When you consider that each team has only won one of their most recent league matches, you can see why the two teams are considered to be somewhat poor. On the other hand, we anticipate that Basel will be able to win at home, just as the home club has won each of the previous four games between these two teams and defeated Luzern each time.