Servette 0-1 Basel result, stats and report

St. Gallen took all three points at Basel despite being comprehensively outshot, winning 3-1 in a result that tells you everything about clinical finishing versus wasted opportunity. Basel created more, threatened more, and still lost. Unacceptable.

Young Boys came from two goals down to beat Servette 3-2 in the Swiss Super League, with Samuel Essende scoring twice in the final twenty minutes to seal a dramatic home victory.

Servette came from behind to beat Thun 4-2, with Fabio Saiz grabbing two goals for the hosts before Servette's clinical second-half display, capped by David Datro Fofana, settled it. Thun had 60% possession and 17 shots but converted just two of them. That is your problem right there.

Kingstone Mutandwa converted a second-half penalty to give Servette a 1-0 victory at Lausanne Sport, with the hosts left to rue a performance that produced plenty of attempts but zero cutting edge.

Xherdan Shaqiri scored twice in the second half to put the game beyond Luzern, as Basel ran out comfortable 4-2 winners in the Swiss Super League despite the home side hitting the woodwork and generating more shots overall.

Servette were reduced to ten men via a VAR card in the first half yet still managed to earn a point against a Luzern side that dominated every attacking statistic but could not find a winner.

Two teams who cannot keep a clean sheet between them meet on Sunday. Something has to give, and the evidence says it will probably be both defences at once.

Servette arrive at this fixture having lost three of their last five Swiss Super League matches and keeping zero clean sheets in that run. Sion have won four of their last five and are not coming to make up the numbers.