Rizespor look to Çaykur Didi Stadyumu supporters for inspiration before Göztepe match

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Competition: Turkey 1. Lig
Competition: Fri 16.December
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Çaykur Didi Stadyumu (15332 seats)

The hosts, Rizespor, should be favourites in this match, but Göztepe have shown both competence and spirit. Learn more about the game!

Insights:
  • Rizespor have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Göztepe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Göztepe play their home matches on artifical turf, while this fixture is played on grass. The latest data for Göztepe when featuring on grass are 10 wins, 9 draws and 19 defeats from 38 matches. They have created {43 goals} and conceded 71 times in these fixtures.

It's quite the trip for Göztepe when visiting Rizespor as the cities are 1400 kilometers apart.

Rizespor and Göztepe should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Rizespor form and stats

The story so far in the 1. Lig for Rizespor at their home stadium (Çaykur Didi Stadyumu) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. days ago.

Happy days for Rizespor in their previous game, a fixture away at Tuzlaspor (placed 15th) that ended with a 1-0 victory.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Pendikspor.

Trench warfare? In this club's last 13 league matches, 10 have had zero, one or two goals.

Rizespor are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Rizespor are not conceding a lot of goals here at Çaykur Didi Stadyumu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.

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Göztepe form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Göztepe so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-5 (win-draw-lose).

Göztepe go into this game after a win, the home game against Manisa BBSK that ended 1-0.

A 2-2 draw at Adanaspor's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Göztepe have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 5 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Take note: 10 of the last 12 league fixtures involving this club have seen only one (or no) side scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting).

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Turkish Cup trip to Istanbul Basaksehir.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Göztepe as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Göztepe have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Rizespor five wins, one draw and Göztepe four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RizesporY. Bolasie Yala
Y. Bolasie Yala
5 goals
GöztepeY. Öztekin
Y. Öztekin
5 goals
RizesporK. Kanatsızkuş
K. Kanatsızkuş
4 goals

Rizespor missing players

Göztepe missing players

Rizespor Göztepe
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 7 1 Played P 3 8 15
7 3 1 Won W 0 2 6
8 4 0 Drew D 0 1 3
1 0 0 Lost L 3 5 6
23 9 1 Scored S 0 5 15
11 4 0 Conceded C 5 10 14
88% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
75% 71% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 38% 47%
25% 14% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 38% 33%
25% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 13%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
50% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 27%
44% 43% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 40%
19% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 40%
 
4.8 4.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 2.4 4.4
4.9 6.3 9 Corners against (avg) C A 2.3 3.8 3.8
2.1 1.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.4 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
8.4 8.7 2 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 6.6 9.3
4.2 3.6 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 2.8 3.5
34% 36% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 23% 28%
 
7.8 7.4 3 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 12.2 11.7
3.2 2.9 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 4.9 4.3
Key stats in 1. Lig this season:
  • Göztepe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Göztepe have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Göztepe haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Rizespor have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Rizespor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Eyupspor 16 11 4 1 24 9 9 9 0 0 20 5 7 2 4 1 4 4 15 37
2 Keciorengucu 16 8 5 3 27 19 8 4 2 2 11 11 8 4 3 1 16 8 8 29
3 Rizespor 16 7 8 1 23 11 7 3 4 0 9 4 9 4 4 1 14 7 12 29
4 Pendikspor 16 8 5 3 24 11 7 4 1 2 10 4 9 4 4 1 14 7 13 29
5 Bodrumspor 16 8 4 4 27 17 9 5 3 1 20 8 7 3 1 3 7 9 10 28
6 Samsunspor 16 7 7 2 26 14 8 4 3 1 15 7 8 3 4 1 11 7 12 28
7 Boluspor 16 7 5 4 17 15 9 5 3 1 11 5 7 2 2 3 6 10 2 26
8 Bandrmaspor 16 6 7 3 21 21 7 3 3 1 8 7 9 3 4 2 13 14 0 25
9 Manisa BBSK 16 6 6 4 22 21 9 3 5 1 13 11 7 3 1 3 9 10 1 24
10 Sakaryaspor 17 7 1 9 26 28 9 6 1 2 18 10 8 1 0 7 8 18 -2 22
11 Göztepe 15 6 3 6 15 14 7 4 2 1 10 4 8 2 1 5 5 10 1 21
12 Altay 16 5 6 5 18 16 9 3 3 3 11 10 7 2 3 2 7 6 2 21
13 Adanaspor 16 4 6 6 24 25 8 4 4 0 14 9 8 0 2 6 10 16 -1 18
14 BB Erzurumspor 16 4 5 7 17 24 7 2 2 3 8 9 9 2 3 4 9 15 -7 17
15 Tuzlaspor 16 4 4 8 17 22 8 1 2 5 7 11 8 3 2 3 10 11 -5 16
16 Altnordu 16 3 3 10 14 29 8 1 1 6 5 18 8 2 2 4 9 11 -15 12
17 Yeni Malatyaspor 16 2 6 8 15 25 7 0 3 4 3 12 9 2 3 4 12 13 -10 12
18 Denizlispor 16 2 3 11 12 32 8 2 3 3 9 10 8 0 0 8 3 22 -20 9
19 Genclerbirligi 16 1 4 11 15 31 8 0 1 7 8 19 8 1 3 4 7 12 -16 7

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.