WC Qualification Europe: Group Stage: Turkey travels to Norway for this exciting encounter
It's no vacation for neither Norway nor Turkey as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 3200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Norway form and stats
Last season, Norway's WC Qualification Europe journey ended in the 1st round.Preceding that game was the away draw at Austria that finished 1-1.
This is expected to be a close game, with Norway perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Norway as a small favourite), we find two games. Norway has won zero of these, drawn one and lost one.
Norway are traveling soon after this match as the WC Qualification Europe match at Montenegro awaits in three days.
Turkey form and stats
Turkey was sent out of WC Qualification Europe in the 1st round last season.A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Turkey, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Goalkeeper Uğurcan Çakır was absolutely vital in the Turkey victory against Netherlands, making seven saves. Burak Yılmaz certainly enjoyed Turkey's last game versus Netherlands, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 4-2 victory.
A new game in only three days for Turkey, the WC Qualification Europe home match versus Latvia. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
Norway missing players
Turkey missing players
| Norway | Turkey | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 43 | 24 | Scored | S | 14 | 38 | ||
| 22 | 10 | Conceded | C | 11 | 23 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 36% | ||
| 44% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 30% | 32% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 12.1 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.7 | 13.2 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 39% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 30% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Norway | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Turkey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Montenegro | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Latvia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 0 |
| 6 | Gibraltar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |