Servette (home)
- Servette Geneve FC will aim to continue their roller coaster ride when they face the runaway leaders of the 2025-2026 Super League, FC Thun, on Sunday.
- The visitors have stormed the winter break as surprise leaders in their first season back in the Swiss top flight after promotion.
- Servette will try to control the pace of the match and bring their opponents onto them while Thun will apply a high-press and try to expose space behind the defense in transition.
- Jocelyn Gourvennec’s men are a talented team that plays a simple style, which isn’t always as easy to execute as it looks.
- Kastriot Imeri is the team’s creative lynchpin but his impact on results has been limited because of Servette’s tendency to concede multiple goals in recent games, even when they’re scoring plenty.
- Florian Ayé has provided a fresh spark up top since signing in the summer, but Servette remain in mid-table obscurity, several places and points adrift of the European places.
Thun (away)
- In contrast, Thun are the belle of the ball in Switzerland as the fairytale of their promotion is continuing.
- They are a high-energy team with a pragmatic boss in Mauro Lustrinelli, who has set the tone for a title challenge.
- They score goals, press hard and defend well as a unit, with Christopher Ibayi, one of the Super League’s top scorers, their talisman up top.
- Brighton Labeau and Marco Bürki provide thrust going forward and solidity at the back respectively, which is the perfect formula for success in this league.
- Recent form:
- Thun are on a five-game winning streak in competitive matches, which included a 4-1 win over Young Boys and a 2-1 away win against Basel.
Head-to-Head
Thun have won both previous Super League fixtures against Servette this season, 3-1 at home in October and 1-0 away in November.
Key Players
- Kastriot Imeri is the team’s creative lynchpin but his impact on results has been limited because of Servette’s tendency to concede multiple goals in recent games, even when they’re scoring plenty.
- Florian Ayé has provided a fresh spark up top since signing in the summer.
- Christopher Ibayi, one of the Super League’s top scorers, is Thun’s talisman up top.
- Brighton Labeau provides thrust going forward and Marco Bürki offers solidity at the back.
- Trend:
- Servette have scored regularly but have also conceded multiple goals in most of their recent games, underlining their leaky defense.
Betting Insights
- Backing over 2.5 goals at 1.6 is a clear favourite, but it is the value bet considering both teams have been involved in a few goal feasts of late and both have defensive vulnerabilities.
- Servette are as short as 2.4 to win this, but there is plenty of value to be found on Thun at 2.65.
Prediction
- We’ll side with the visitors to edge this one, however, as they are in red-hot form, have a better league position and have won the last two meetings of the sides in the Super League.
- It won’t be that easy this time against a good Servette team and the hosts are regular goalscorers themselves, so we’re anticipating a close, high-scoring game that will be a statement win for Servette’s new boss or, more likely, another success for Thun in their extraordinary season.
