Home advantage could prove decisive in Samsunspor - Tuzlaspor battle

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Competition: Turkey 1. Lig
Competition: Sun 26.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadyumu (16480 seats)

Home team gets the points, the away team steals it or a point each? Everything is possible when the mid-table teams Samsunspor and Tuzlaspor duel at Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadyumu.

Insights:
  • Samsunspor have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Tuzlaspor have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in 1. Lig

Tuzlaspor play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Up to date statistics for Tuzlaspor when featuring on grass are 16 wins, 10 draws and 12 defeats from 38 matches. They have created 53 goals and conceded 42 times on these occasions.

The visiting Tuzlaspor played their last game only four days ago, a 1. Lig match.

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Samsunspor form and stats

Samsunspor are steadily winning 1. Lig games and points here at Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadyumu. 5 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 9 games.

Samsunspor lost their last game at Istanbulspor (placed 6th) after a 1-2 scoreline. Heartbreak for Samsunspor in their last match as Istanbulspor's Kabasakal scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

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

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Samsunspor matches with similar probabilities have ended with six wins, one draw and zero defeats (from seven games).

Samsunspor are traveling soon after this match as the Turkish Cup match at Goztepe awaits in three days.

Samsunspor has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Samsunspor have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Tuzlaspor form and stats

Playing away, Tuzlaspor have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats in the 1. Lig this season.

There were no winners in Tuzlaspor's previous match, a 1. Lig home game that ended 1-1 vs BB Erzurumspor (placed 3rd). The draw against BB Erzurumspor came from a losing position. The Tuzlaspor manager Fidan brought on Yazar as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Manisa BBSK.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Tuzlaspor when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning one game.

The attacking power of Tuzlaspor when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Tuzlaspor have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Last two meetings featuring these sides: Samsunspor won two, Tuzlaspor triumphed in zero and we saw zero draws. zero games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

SamsunsporY. Öztekin
Y. Öztekin
6 goals
SamsunsporA. Fernandes Mendes
A. Fernandes Mendes
5 goals
SamsunsporM. Fofana
M. Fofana
4 goals

Samsunspor missing players

Tuzlaspor missing players

Samsunspor Tuzlaspor
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 3 8 17
7 5 2 Won W 1 3 6
5 4 1 Drew D 1 1 5
5 0 0 Lost L 1 4 6
24 13 4 Scored S 2 7 17
21 5 2 Conceded C 2 8 16
94% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
76% 67% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 59%
41% 22% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 29%
35% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 12%
18% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
53% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 41%
35% 56% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 29%
18% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 38% 35%
 
6.1 6.7 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 3.6 4.2
3.5 3.2 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 3.1 3.6
2.6 1.7 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 1.7
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.5 10.6 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 7.4 9.9
3.9 4.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3.2 4.2
36% 35% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 27% 24%
 
9.4 8 12 Shots against (avg) S A 8.7 9.5 9
3.8 2.7 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.7 2.6 2.9
Key stats in 1. Lig this season:
  • Samsunspor have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Samsunspor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Samsunspor have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Tuzlaspor have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in 1. Lig
  • Tuzlaspor have the most matches under the total-line (10) in 1. Lig
  • Tuzlaspor haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Umraniyespor 17 11 3 3 31 14 7 5 1 1 14 6 10 6 2 2 17 8 17 36
2 Ankaragucu 17 10 3 4 27 13 7 5 2 0 13 4 10 5 1 4 14 9 14 33
3 BB Erzurumspor 17 10 3 4 29 20 9 8 0 1 22 10 8 2 3 3 7 10 9 33
4 Bandrmaspor 17 10 1 6 28 15 8 5 0 3 12 7 9 5 1 3 16 8 13 31
5 Eyupspor 17 9 4 4 28 21 8 5 1 2 12 8 9 4 3 2 16 13 7 31
6 Istanbulspor 17 8 2 7 27 24 9 6 1 2 16 10 8 2 1 5 11 14 3 26
7 Samsunspor 17 7 5 5 24 21 9 5 4 0 13 5 8 2 1 5 11 16 3 26
8 Genclerbirligi 17 8 2 7 22 22 9 5 0 4 14 12 8 3 2 3 8 10 0 26
9 Kocaelispor 17 7 3 7 19 20 10 6 1 3 14 11 7 1 2 4 5 9 -1 24
10 Tuzlaspor 17 6 5 6 17 16 9 3 4 2 10 8 8 3 1 4 7 8 1 23
11 Adanaspor 17 6 5 6 18 19 8 4 3 1 11 8 9 2 2 5 7 11 -1 23
12 Manisa BBSK 18 6 4 8 20 24 8 3 2 3 8 11 10 3 2 5 12 13 -4 22
13 Boluspor 17 5 6 6 19 19 8 3 4 1 7 4 9 2 2 5 12 15 0 21
14 Menemen Belediyespor 17 5 5 7 21 31 8 4 3 1 12 10 9 1 2 6 9 21 -10 20
15 Keciorengucu 17 5 4 8 23 28 9 5 2 2 17 14 8 0 2 6 6 14 -5 19
16 Altnordu 17 6 1 10 22 34 9 5 0 4 12 14 8 1 1 6 10 20 -12 19
17 Bursaspor 17 5 3 9 22 28 9 3 2 4 13 15 8 2 1 5 9 13 -6 18
18 Denizlispor 17 4 4 9 14 23 9 3 1 5 10 15 8 1 3 4 4 8 -9 16
19 Balkesirspor 17 2 1 14 13 32 9 2 1 6 8 14 8 0 0 8 5 18 -19 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.