Basel and FC Winterthur will be looking to record their first win of the 2023 Swiss Super League campaign when they go head-to-head at St. Jakob-Park on Sunday.

The hosts came away empty-handed from their season opener last time out, while this weekend's visitors had to make do with a share of the spoils.

Match preview

Basel kicked off their season on the back foot as they fell to an agonising 2-1 defeat against St.Gallen in Saturday's opening fixture at Kybunpark.

Timo Schultz's men found themselves trailing to Willem Geubbels's strike but managed to draw level through Fabian Frei just shy of half time, after which Lukas Gortler grabbed the winner four minutes from time.

To make things worse for RotBlau, they then fell to a 3-1 defeat against Kazakhstan side Tobol Kostanay in the first leg of the teams' Conference League qualifier.

Coming up next is the challenge of an opposing outfit who boast just one win from the previous 11 encounters, losing all but one of the other 10 clashes.

Having lost each of their last three home outings leading to Sunday's contest, the hosts will be keen to get back to winning ways in front of their fans as soon as possible.

Winterthur played out a goalless stalemate against Luzern on Saturday as the teams both drew blanks in their curtain-raiser at Stadion Schutzenweise.

Patrick Rahmen's men mustered significantly more clear-cut opportunities to break the deadlock, but they ran into an inspired goalkeeper in the opposition goal.

The Zurich-based side currently sit seventh in the Swiss Super League table, just outside the last Championship group place on goal difference.

Ahead of a daunting assignment against defending champions Young Boys six days later, Sunday's visitors will be seeking to secure a morale-boosting result here.