All the pre-match info you need for the Gençlerbirliği - Tuzlaspor fixture:

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

Gençlerbirliği's stadium, Eryaman Stadyumu, has a grass surface. Tuzlaspor have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Tuzlaspor when playing on grass; 15 wins, 10 draws and 11 losses from 36 matches. They have scored 51 goals in these games and conceded 39.

Gençlerbirliği form and stats

When playing at home in the 1. Lig, Gençlerbirliği have managed 2 wins, 0 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 5 games.

D. Hrechyshkin was the last player to score a league goal for Gençlerbirliği and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Gençlerbirliği haven't scored in 180 minutes.

Gençlerbirliği are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Keciorengucu. The penalty miss from Sandro Lima in the defeat against Keciorengucu was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen.

Preceding that match was a defeat to İstanbulspor (0-2).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Gençlerbirliği have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found seven matches with the results: Won three, drawn three and lost one.

The Gençlerbirliği fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 5 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Gençlerbirliği with 11 goals conceded in these matches.

Tuzlaspor form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their 1. Lig travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Tuzlaspor's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Tuzlaspor go into this game after a win, the home game against Denizlispor that ended 3-0.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Umraniyespor wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Tuzlaspor in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Tuzlaspor, one draw and two defeats.

Tuzlaspor find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Tuzlaspor have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Last two meetings with these squads: Gençlerbirliği won one, Tuzlaspor triumphed in one and we saw zero draws. one game with more than 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

B. Alıcı 3 goals

B. Eleke 3 goals

S. Cordovil de Lima 2 goals

Gençlerbirliği missing players

Tuzlaspor missing players