Altay looking for adventure and three points in 1. Lig trip to Eskişehirspor

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Competition: Turkey 1. Lig
Competition: Sat 06.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yeni Eskişehir Stadyumu (34930 seats)

Struggling Eskişehirspor will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Altay in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 6th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Eskişehirspor has the fewest scored goals (12) in 1. Lig
  • Altay have scored more than double the goals of Eskişehirspor.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Eskişehirspor form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the 1. Lig this season. Eskişehirspor, who have the fewest scored goals (12) in 1. Lig, have only managed 0 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses from their games here at Yeni Eskişehir Stadyumu. All in all it has been a very rough period for Eskişehirspor who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 19 attempts. Their previous win was against Osmanlıspor, 146 days ago. Eskişehirspor are slowly digging their own grave here at Yeni Eskişehir Stadyumu with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in ten attempts. The last victory here came in the Adanaspor match.

Eskişehirspor faced defeat in their previous match, away at Adanaspor (2-5). In the match before that, Eskişehirspor hosted Osmanlıspor and drew the game 0-0.

A goal frenzy last time out for Eskişehirspor, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Adanaspor. Fun stuff to watch!

The lack of attacking qualities in Eskişehirspor means that they have only scored 5 goals in 10 league home games, less than half a goal per match. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Altay form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their 1. Lig travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. Recent form does not give Altay much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Eskişehirspor will be a tough nut to crack. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Altay are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Altay failed to get anything from their last game, a 1. Lig home match vs İstanbulspor (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 1-3. Prior to that match, the Altay manager Y. İldiz faced defeat when travelling to Samsunspor and losing 0-1.

Altay are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 9 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 10 goals have been conceded by Altay in these games.

Head 2 Head

Eskişehirspor and Altay have met before this season: Altay - Eskişehirspor 6-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Eskişehirspor four wins, two draws and Altay four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AltayM. Lopes Paixão
M. Lopes Paixão
12 goals
AltayE. Çelenk
E. Çelenk
3 goals
AltayL. Kappel
L. Kappel
3 goals

Eskişehirspor missing players

Altay missing players

Eskişehirspor Altay
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 10 2 Played P 1 9 19
0 0 0 Won W 0 4 10
7 5 0 Drew D 0 0 2
12 5 2 Lost L 1 5 7
12 5 0 Scored S 0 10 31
39 13 3 Conceded C 1 10 20
89% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
74% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 56% 68%
42% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 58%
32% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 11% 32%
16% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 11%
42% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 53%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 32%
58% 70% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 33% 21%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.9 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 2.2
3 3 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7 6.6 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 7.7 10.5
2.3 1.9 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 4 4.7
29% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 35%
Key stats in 1. Lig this season:
  • Altay have scored more than double the goals of Eskişehirspor.
  • Altay haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Eskişehirspor has the fewest points (5) at home in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the fewest scored goals (12) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the fewest scored goals (5) at home in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the most conceded goals (39) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the most conceded goals in the first half (17) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor has the the worst goal difference (-27) in 1. Lig
  • Eskişehirspor have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Eskişehirspor have yet to win a game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Giresunspor 19 12 5 2 30 13 10 7 2 1 17 6 9 5 3 1 13 7 17 41
2 İstanbulspor 19 12 4 3 41 20 10 7 3 0 27 12 9 5 1 3 14 8 21 40
3 Samsunspor 19 10 7 2 27 18 10 7 2 1 16 8 9 3 5 1 11 10 9 37
4 Adana Demirspor 19 10 4 5 33 19 10 5 4 1 20 9 9 5 0 4 13 10 14 34
5 Tuzlaspor 19 10 3 6 29 27 9 5 1 3 13 14 10 5 2 3 16 13 2 33
6 Altay 19 10 2 7 31 20 10 6 2 2 21 10 9 4 0 5 10 10 11 32
7 Keciorengucu 19 9 4 6 24 14 10 6 1 3 15 5 9 3 3 3 9 9 10 31
8 Altnordu 19 9 4 6 26 27 9 5 1 3 12 11 10 4 3 3 14 16 -1 31
9 Bursaspor 19 9 3 7 34 30 9 5 0 4 17 14 10 4 3 3 17 16 4 30
10 Bandrmaspor 19 8 3 8 23 20 10 5 2 3 11 10 9 3 1 5 12 10 3 27
11 Menemen Belediyespor 19 5 7 7 23 31 9 2 2 5 9 18 10 3 5 2 14 13 -8 22
12 Adanaspor 19 6 3 10 28 28 9 3 1 5 18 19 10 3 2 5 10 9 0 21
13 Ümraniyespor 19 5 6 8 20 29 10 3 3 4 11 15 9 2 3 4 9 14 -9 21
14 Boluspor 19 5 4 10 19 24 9 2 1 6 6 10 10 3 3 4 13 14 -5 19
15 Akhisar Belediyespor 19 5 4 10 17 25 9 3 3 3 7 6 10 2 1 7 10 19 -8 19
16 Balkesirspor 19 4 4 11 16 31 9 2 3 4 9 14 10 2 1 7 7 17 -15 16
17 Osmanlıspor 19 3 4 12 13 31 9 2 3 4 7 11 10 1 1 8 6 20 -18 13
18 Eskişehirspor 19 0 7 12 12 39 10 0 5 5 5 13 9 0 2 7 7 26 -27 4

Read more about 1. Lig

The TFF First League, earlier known as the 1. Lig, is the second level of football in Turkey. It has 18 teams playing each other twice to decide the league table of the regular season. The top two teams are promoted, while the next four have a playoff to decide the third promotion. The three bottom teams are relegated.