Basel 3-1 Grasshopper: result and report
Super League · Saturday 31 October 2009
Result
Basel 3-1 Grasshopper
Super League · Saturday 31 October 2009, 16:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Basel 3-1 Grasshopper: match report
Basel beat Grasshopper 3-1 in the Super League on Saturday 31 October 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.
Boris Smiljanic opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Basel's goals came from Benjamin Huggel (34'), Marco Streller (41') and Benjamin Huggel (90', penalty). Grasshopper scored through Boris Smiljanic (28').
Discipline: Basel received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Grasshopper received 4 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Basel were 3rd on 25 points from 14 and Grasshopper 7th on 17 points from 14. Basel went on to finish that season 2nd with 72 points, and Grasshopper 3rd with 56.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Basel wins, 2 draws and 3 for Grasshopper.
Going into the match Basel's last five read D-W-W-W-W and Grasshopper's L-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · Valentin Stocker
- 23'Yellow card · Veroljub Salatic
- 28'Goal · Boris Smiljanic
- 34'Goal · Benjamin Huggel
- 40'Yellow card · Senad Lulić
- 41'Goal · Marco Streller
- 56'Red card · Vallori
- 59'Red card · David Abraham
- 73'Yellow card · S. Inkoom
- 76'Yellow card · Çagdas Atan
- 78'Yellow card · Rolf Feltscher
- 84'Yellow card · Boris Smiljanic
- 90'Red card · Jeff Strasser
- 90'Penalty goal · Benjamin Huggel
Head-to-head
Team news
Basel expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Franco Costanzo, Francois Marque, Behrang Safari, Reto Zanni, David Abraham, Beg Ferati, Benjamin Huggel, Carlitos, Scott Chipperfield, Ivan Ergic