Basel vs Sion — Swiss Super League result and pre-match forecast, Thursday, 3 September 2026

Swiss Super League·Thursday, 3 September 2026

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Sion

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 5.5 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Basel

35%

Draw

25%

Sion

40%

pick · result

Final score

1–2

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Sion win 40.3% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Sion win. Expected goals 1.63–1.64 against 1–2 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals64%3 scored
Both teams score66%yes
Basel clean sheet19%no
Sion clean sheet20%no
Basel score 2+48%no
Sion score 2+50%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2384
1X2 Brier score0.5395
Probability on the result40.3%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (11.1%), 1–2 (9.8%), 2–2 (6.9%). It finished 1–2 — one of them.

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Basel

25 JulAvs Servette1–0W
1 AugHvs Lausanne0–1L
9 AugHvs Thun4–2W
22 AugAvs Zurich2–1W
29 AugAvs Young Boys3–3D

Sion

26 JulAvs Young Boys2–4L
2 AugHvs Luzern3–0W
9 AugHvs Vaduz3–2W
30 AugHvs Lugano1–2L
3 SeptAvs Basel2–1W

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatBasel
(Home · 6 matches)
Sion
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%66.7%
Over 2.5 rate66.7%83.3%
Clean sheet16.7%16.7%
Avg goals3.004.00

Home stats use Basel's home record; away stats use Sion's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.