1. Lig match tips and match guide for the Gençlerbirliği vs Ümraniyespor battle

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Competition: Turkey 1. Lig
Competition: Sat 21.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Eryaman Stadyumu (22000 seats)

Striving Gençlerbirliği need to pull off a surprise win when they play high-flying Ümraniyespor in the next league round. It’s 13th vs 1st and the home regulars will have low confidence.

Insights:
  • Gençlerbirliği haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Ümraniyespor have the most scored goals (60) in 1. Lig

Gençlerbirliği are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Gençlerbirliği form and stats

Gençlerbirliği have played 17 1. Lig games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 9-2-6 (wins-draws-losses). When Gençlerbirliği hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Istanbulspor, Bandrmaspor, Ankaragücü, Eyupspor and BB Erzurumspor), they have won 2 of 5 matches! There’s a good atmosphere here at Eryaman Stadyumu after three straight home wins.

A good away victory last time out for Gençlerbirliği, who won 3-1 against Menemen Belediyespor (placed 18th).

Ahead of that match, Gençlerbirliği won a home game hosting BB Erzurumspor (2-1).

Gençlerbirliği are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 25 goals in 17 games. Gençlerbirliği have conceded 22 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Ümraniyespor form and stats

The visitors are W8-D3-L6 on the road this term. That's in the 1. Lig.

Ümraniyespor delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Denizlispor (placed 11th) in their previous fixture.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Bursaspor wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.

Ümraniyespor find the net regularly in their away games. 24 goals from 17 away fixtures in the league.

Head 2 Head

The former H2H encounter ended Ümraniyespor - Gençlerbirliği 3-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Gençlerbirliği two wins, zero draws and Ümraniyespor one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

GençlerbirliğiS. Cordovil de Lima
S. Cordovil de Lima
11 goals
ÜmraniyesporY. Bammou
Y. Bammou
10 goals
GençlerbirliğiB. Alıcı
B. Alıcı
8 goals

Gençlerbirliği missing players

Ümraniyespor missing players

Gençlerbirliği Ümraniyespor
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
35 17 5 Played P 6 17 35
14 9 2 Won W 4 8 20
6 2 0 Drew D 1 3 7
15 6 3 Lost L 1 6 8
42 25 6 Scored S 13 24 60
50 22 10 Conceded C 4 17 35
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 94% 94%
80% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 76% 77%
51% 47% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 41% 54%
29% 24% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 18% 29%
9% 18% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 12% 14%
40% 29% 40% BTTS BTTS 33% 35% 51%
31% 41% 20% Clean Sheets C S 67% 47% 37%
37% 29% 40% Failed to Score F T 17% 24% 17%
 
4.8 5.5 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 4.5 5.3
5.1 4.4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 7.3 5.7 5.1
2.5 2.6 3.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.5 2.5
4 2 1 Red cards R C 2 4 4
 
11.1 13.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 13.7 10.7 11.7
4.6 5.4 4.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.1 4.6
26% 27% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 39% 35% 37%
 
9.2 8.4 11.8 Shots against (avg) S A 13.3 11.7 10.5
3.8 3 4.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 3.6 3.6
Key stats in 1. Lig this season:
  • Gençlerbirliği haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Ümraniyespor have the most clean sheets (8) away in 1. Lig
  • Ümraniyespor have the most scored goals (60) in 1. Lig
  • Ümraniyespor have the most scored goals in the first half (37) in 1. Lig
  • Ümraniyespor have the the best goal difference (+25) in 1. Lig

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ümraniyespor 35 20 7 8 60 35 18 12 4 2 36 18 17 8 3 6 24 17 25 67
2 Ankaragücü 35 20 7 8 54 30 18 11 3 4 28 16 17 9 4 4 26 14 24 67
3 Bandrmaspor 36 19 5 12 56 34 18 11 2 5 30 17 18 8 3 7 26 17 22 62
4 Istanbulspor 36 17 9 10 57 40 18 8 6 4 25 18 18 9 3 6 32 22 17 60
5 BB Erzurumspor 36 16 10 10 55 44 18 11 4 3 33 19 18 5 6 7 22 25 11 58
6 Eyupspor 36 15 12 9 56 44 18 9 4 5 25 18 18 6 8 4 31 26 12 57
7 Samsunspor 36 13 12 11 54 46 18 8 8 2 30 16 18 5 4 9 24 30 8 51
8 Boluspor 36 14 8 14 42 44 18 7 6 5 17 15 18 7 2 9 25 29 -2 50
9 Manisa BBSK 36 14 7 15 45 44 18 9 4 5 28 22 18 5 3 10 17 22 1 49
10 Tuzlaspor 36 13 10 13 45 44 18 7 6 5 26 21 18 6 4 8 19 23 1 49
11 Denizlispor 36 14 7 15 46 50 18 9 2 7 29 27 18 5 5 8 17 23 -4 49
12 Keçiörengücü 35 13 9 13 44 45 17 10 4 3 27 19 18 3 5 10 17 26 -1 48
13 Gençlerbirliği 35 14 6 15 42 50 17 9 2 6 25 22 18 5 4 9 17 28 -8 48
14 Adanaspor 35 12 9 14 39 40 18 9 6 3 25 15 17 3 3 11 14 25 -1 45
15 Altnordu 36 14 3 19 45 62 18 10 0 8 23 28 18 4 3 11 22 34 -17 45
16 Bursaspor 35 11 8 16 42 53 17 8 4 5 22 20 18 3 4 11 20 33 -11 41
17 Kocaelispor 35 11 8 16 36 48 17 9 2 6 24 24 18 2 6 10 12 24 -12 41
18 Menemen Belediyespor 35 8 14 13 42 56 18 6 8 4 23 24 17 2 6 9 19 32 -14 38
19 Balkesirspor 36 3 3 30 26 77 18 2 2 14 13 38 18 1 1 16 13 39 -51 12

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.