Zürich 2-1 Grasshopper: result and report
Super League · Saturday 21 August 2021
Result
Zürich 2-1 Grasshopper
Super League · Saturday 21 August 2021, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Zürich 2-1 Grasshopper: match report
Zürich defeated Grasshopper 2-1 in the Super League on Saturday 21 August 2021. The half-time score was 1-1.
Georg Margreitter opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Zürich's goals came from Antonio Marchesano (10') and Assan Ceesay (90+5'). Grasshopper scored through Georg Margreitter (7').
Discipline: Zürich received 3 yellow cards; Grasshopper received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Zürich were 2nd on 9 points from 3 and Grasshopper 6th on 4 points from 3. Zürich went on to finish that season 1st with 76 points, and Grasshopper 8th with 40.
Zürich lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Grasshopper in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Assan Ceesay of Zürich (8.7), ahead of Antonio Marchesano (7.8).
Going into the match Zürich's last five read W-W-W and Grasshopper's W-D-L.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Georg Margreitter
- 10'Goal · Antonio Marchesano
- 15'Yellow card · Moritz Leitner
- 47'Second yellow · Amir Abrashi
- 47'Yellow card · Amir Abrashi
- 49'Yellow card · L. Campana
- 49'Yellow card · Mirlind Kryeziu
- 64'Yellow card · Fidan Aliti
- 90+5'Goal · Assan Ceesay
Team news
Unavailable
- Salim Khelifi
- André Santos
- Blerim Džemaili
- Bruno Jordão
- Giotto Morandi
- Aiyegun Tosin
- Carson Emanuel Buschman-Dormond
- Ermir Lenjani
- Léo Bonatini
Zürich line-up (3-4-2-1)
Yanick Brecher, Becir Omeragic, Mirlind Kryeziu, Fidan Aliti, Fabian Rohner, Ousmane Doumbia, Moritz Leitner, Adrián Guerrero, Antonio Marchesano, Bledian Krasniqi, Assan Ceesay
Grasshopper line-up (3-4-2-1)
André Moreira, Allan Arigoni, Georg Margreitter, Toti, Bendegúz Bolla, Djibril Diani, Amir Abrashi, Florian Hoxha, Petar Pusic, Christián Herc, Leonardo Campana