Basel vs St. Gallen — Swiss Super League result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 20 September 2026

Swiss Super League·Sunday, 20 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 6.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Basel

36%

Draw

23%

St. Gallen

40%

pick · result

Final score

1–3

Top pick landed

Metis gave a St. Gallen win 40.3% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a St. Gallen win. Expected goals 1.64–1.71 against 1–3 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals65%4 scored
Both teams score66%yes
Basel clean sheet18%no
St. Gallen clean sheet20%no
Basel score 2+49%no
St. Gallen score 2+51%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2445
1X2 Brier score0.5431
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 (10.2%), 1–2 (8.8%), 2–1 (8.0%). It finished 1–3.

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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

St. Gallen

26 JulHvs Zurich2–1W
2 AugAvs Vaduz3–2W
9 AugHvs Luzern2–2D
30 AugHvs Thun3–4L
2 SeptAvs Grasshoppers0–2L

Head to head

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

Model context

StatBasel
(Home · 6 matches)
St. Gallen
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate66.7%50.0%
Clean sheet16.7%16.7%
Avg goals3.003.33

Home stats use Basel's home record; away stats use St. Gallen'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.