Young Boys vs Winterthur Prediction: Both teams looking to avoid another defeat

Young Boys will meet Winterthur at Stade de Suisse in a matchup from round 36 of the Swiss Super League. Both teams enter this encounter on the heels of a league loss; will Winterthur have to play well to escape defeat as Young Boys are favorites?

In their previous matches, Young Boys had a record of 3 wins against Luzern, St. Gallen, and Sion and 1 loss against Lugano, with 1 match against Zurich ending in a draw. Young Boys were only able to score ten goals while giving up four. During the current league season, Young Boys has scored a mean of 2.29 goals per contest on average. In terms of disciplinary actions, the home team has been issued a total of 72 yellow cards and 4 red cards, which results in an average of 13.06 fouls committed per game that they have competed in. The Young Boys team have an average rating of 6.81 after each encounter. This season, Young Boys have maintained an average possession of the ball of 56.57%, which indicates that they are good at maintaining the ball.

Winterthur comes into this match having won one of their previous five matches against Sion and losing to Basel, Lugano, Servette, and Zurich. In those, matches, Winterthur scored three goals while giving up nine. When playing away from home, Winterthur had a goal-scoring average of 0.89 and a goals against average of 1.83. There were a total of 432 fouls committed by the squad, of which they received 90 yellow cards and 2 red cards for their misconduct. The overall rating of the Winterthur team is 6.61 on average per game. Winterthur has only managed to keep the ball 41.17% of the time on average this season.

Only seven times in modern history have Young Boys and Winterthur competed against one another, with Young Boys coming out on top three times and Winterthur claiming victory twice. There were a couple of games that finished in ties. In the head-to-head matchups between the two teams, Young Boys scored 18 goals, while Winterthur could only muster up 8 goals.

Given the strength of their performance at home leading up to this meeting, I anticipate Young Boys coming out on top with relative ease. Despite the fact that Winterthur may show some obstinacy, I continue to expect that they will depart this area without scoring.