Zurich-Aarau beat Staffa 31-21 in the National League A on Wednesday evening, extending their unbeaten run at home to five matches. The visitors moved up to eighth place on four points, while the hosts remain bottom with zero wins from five outings.
Staffa have now drawn five consecutive games without finding a breakthrough, a pattern that has kept them in the lower half all season. To be fair, the scoreline suggests a wider gap than the recent form indicates, but the visitors took control early and never looked back.
We had called for the away side to win at 54 per cent confidence, and the result vindicated that assessment. There is no value left at that number when a team like Zurich-Aarau camps in the final third and converts when it matters.
The hosts offered little resistance after the opening exchanges, and the visitors pulled away with a comfortable margin.
Staffa's recent record shows a pattern of narrow defeats and draws against mid-table opposition, with only one loss in their last five meetings. Their defence has conceded 154 goals in five games, an average that does not bode well against a side that can raise the tempo when they need to.
Zurich-Aarau, by contrast, have kept clean sheets in three of their last five matches and know how to close out results.
The result leaves Staffa searching for their first victory of the campaign, while Zurich-Aarau move closer to the upper tier.
Five games in and the gap between the two sides has never looked wider.
