On the 9th of April, in this week 29 match, Grasshopper will host Luzern at Stadion Letzigrund in a meeting of these two Super League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cold day, and temperatures reaching a maximum of only 1 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. Grasshopper sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Zürich. Morandi scored the first goal for Grasshopper in the 50th minute, but Fidan Aliti got the equalizer for Zürich in the 81st minute squeezing out at least the one point for Zürich. Grasshopper looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10, while 9th placed Luzern is fresh off their 2-2 draw against Lugano. Žan Celar struck first for Lugano in the 38th minute on a feed from Mattia Bottani, then Žan Celar added another in the 56th minute. Luzern is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
Luzern and Grasshopper last played eachother at the Swissporarena on Mar 13th. Luzern won by a score of 1 to 0. Léo Bonatini struck first for Luzern on an own goal in the 2nd minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Grasshopper couldn’t muster any offence and Luzern ran away with the shutout win.
Marco Burch has been the most prolific scorer on Luzern in the last five matches with 2 goals. Grasshopper is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Hayao Kawabe and Mamadou Sene each having 2 goals in their last 5.