The Swiss Football League has just published on its official website a series of interesting statistical analyses regarding the behavior of the various participants in the league that ended at the end of May.
Lugano is the team that has managed to win the most points after coming up short. It happened 25 times with in the end 23 points won against Lucerne's 19 and Basel's 17. Again the HCL took the lead on 22 occasions winning the three points 15 times, drawing four matches and losing three.
Percentually, the club with the most wins after going down 1-0 was Basel (38%). They were followed by Lugano (27%) and YB (19%). The Bernese, once ahead, took home 78% of claims against Servette's 71%. The HCL are eighth with 9 wins in 15 games in which they scored with their first goal (60%).
After conceding the first goal, Croci-Torti's boys had 6 wins out of 22 situations (27%).Better did only Basel (38%). It should be noted that GC in none of the 20 matches in which it conceded the first goal managed to overturn the result.
As for the time of the games when goals were scored or conceded it should be noted that the best team in the finals is Lucerne (26 goals) the 13 of Lugano and the 17 of YB. Suffering most in the final quarter-hour were Winterthur (21), Servette and Lugano (19).
The newly crowned Swiss champions have the record of scoring from inside the area: an impressive 75. Forty are Lugano's goals. From outside the box the scepter belongs to Lausanne with 11 goals, Basel is at 10 and Lugano 5. Grigic and his teammates scored as many as 10 goals on penalties as did Lucerne. Penalty goals against: 10 against Servette and 9 against the Ticinese.
The team that scored the most header goals was Lucerne (12) followed by GC (10), Basel and Servette (9) and Lugano (8). YB cashed in as many as 14 header goals, GC 11, Servette 10 and Lugano 8.
Basel and Winterthur finished 12 games without conceding a goal. Zurich 11. Lugano has done so six times and Sion only four.
Effectiveness under the net is measured as a percentage between chances created and goals scored. The Rhinelanders also shine here with a 19.4 conversion rate followed by Lucerne (17.1). Lugano is seventh with a rate of 14%. Worse did the YB (13%).
And to say that Croci-Torti's boys are first in shot accuracy. They took 392, 201 of them in the mirror and with 104 deflections. With an accuracy of 51.3%. Second is Lucerne (51%) and third is Basel (50.9). YB is only ninth (44.9%).
The Ceresio formation was also the undisputed queen of passes with 19'103 and an accuracy rate of 84.1%. Basel was second (9248 coll'83.4%). Servette only eighth (77.4%).
Steffen and his teammates lead the statistics for passes in the opponent's half of the field (78%) and in the last third of the field (72.1%). Basel follows in both cases while Lucerne is 11th with 67 respectively 62%.
In their own half of the field, the Rhinelanders (90.7) had the highest pass accuracy rate ahead of Lugano (90.2) but with over ten thousand touches compared to Basel's 8300.
Let us finish with the disciplinary aspect. Committing the highest number of fouls again this year was YB with 530. Followed by Zurich 521 and Yverdon 508. Closing the ranking were Lugano 429, Sion 411, Servette 377 and Winterthur 376. However, the HCL were the most cautioned (99) ahead of Yverdon (93). 78 cards were shown to the Bernese bears, who also had five direct ejections and two for double cautions.
