St. Gallen are comfortably second in the Swiss championship and are in excellent form: just one defeat in their last ten matches, while Zeidler's team are proving effective on the road and consistently picking up points. In their last five away matches, the visitors have scored nine goals and lost only once. In the first half, St. Gallen crushed Winterthur at home (5-0).
Winterthur is in last place with a horrendous goal difference (28-67) and has virtually no chance of survival. The team has lost six of its last seven matches, including thrashings against Young Boys (1-6) and Zurich (0-3). Winterthur also looks helpless at home, with only two wins all season and 11 defeats. The hosts' defense regularly collapses against opponents in the top half of the table.
The difference in class, current form, and head-to-head record favor the visitors. St. Gallen need to maintain pressure on the leader, while Winterthur is unlikely to be able to put up a fight amid the crisis.
