Young Boys – Zurich SOCCER PICKS
Only a 1: 1 brought the master in the last match in the derby against Thun. A result that certainly does not meet the demands of the leader, although the opponent has often been a stumbling block in the past. Read on only one win in the last five appearances. After 20 match days, it was only the second draw alongside no fewer than 17 wins and one defeat. The preparations for the next championship celebration in Berne can therefore without a doubt be started long ago. However, the BSC is currently struggling with some injury worries, which is why the draw can be explained by it rather than an already diminishing concentration given the clear lead in the table.
The guests arrived in fourth place and started the second half of the season with a defeat at St. Gallen and a home win at the city derby last weekend against the penultimate Grasshopper Club Zurich. In the coming match between the Young Boys and FC Zurich, of course, the home side are once again the favorites. However, the value for pure victory bets is too small for our taste. Lucrative appear a prediction on a home win and less than 3.5 goals in the match, as the hosts recorded mainly failures in the offensive area. In Young Boys against FC Zurich, the tip is played with 5 units.
Young Boys:
The reigning champion moves very confidently in circles in the Super League. The gap to the runner-up from Basel is already 19 points. The team can now devote themselves completely to the league after leaving the Champions League and in the upcoming match, especially on his home strength. Nine victories and a defeat against FC Lucerne show impressively how difficult the guest teams in Bern are.
At the moment it is less the next opponent who worries in Bern, but the situation in the club hospital. The striker Miralem Sulejmani is currently hosting here. The 30-year-old Serb will not be able to play until at least the end of February. The reason is a foot break, which he suffered in early December of last year. For the club his failure is a significant weakening, because he is the best preparer of the entire league with eleven assists. His scorer qualities are also missing. After all, he is already at seven goals this season.
In addition to Miralem Sulejmani, Bern also has to give up Guillaume Hoarau in attack. The 34-year-old Frenchman is the top goal-getter in the Super League with 13 goals. He is now back in double figures in terms of his number of goals – an achievement he has achieved for the fifth time in a row at the Young Boys. Like Sulejmani, he was selected a few days ago in the best team of the league last year at the SFL Awards. The best player of the year 2018 was awarded to defensive player Kevin Mbabu another Bernese, but also can not play because of injury.
FC Zurich:
The FCZ ranks in fourth place of the table and thus in the same rank as at the end of the preseason. The club once again misses the necessary consistency this season to play in the table even further up. One example was the first two games in the new year. Here, the FC Zurich presented in St. Gallen at the start of the second half of the season very weak and conceded a 1: 3 bankruptcy. He performed significantly better last weekend when the same result came from GCZ at the 237th Zurich Derby, only this time in favor of FC Zurich. Winter entrant Levan Kharabadze, loaned by FC Dinamo Tbilisi, has made a good start. The 19-year-old scored in his home debut equal to the goal for the interim 1: 0, although he was actually brought as a trained full-back.
Away, FC Zurich is still unsuccessful, as it was last season. So the balance shows three wins, two draws and already five bankruptcies. However, offensive has improved, which last year, together with the storm of FC Lugano was the most innocuous on foreign territory. Currently, she stands at 1.7 hits per away game – a value that can be described in the Super League at least as average.
In addition, coach Ludovic Magnin can sit on the bench in Bern, after getting a lock on the last day because he was again banished in the previous round because of ongoing dissent in the public gallery. A penalty that automatically causes a subsequent suspension in Helvetia. Before the match against Bern, the city club had to complete a tough match in the Europa League last Thursday. Here, Zurich faced the SSC Naples and conceded at home, as expected, a defeat in the amount of 1: 3. The consolation goal was scored by Kosovar midfielder Benjamin Kololli shortly before the end of the game.
