Soccer preview: Home supporters have high hopes when Kocaelispor host Etimesgut Belediyespor

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Competition: Turkey 2. Lig: Kirmizi
Competition: Sat 03.December
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kocaeli Stadyumu (15462 seats)

The home team, Kocaelispor, should be expected winners in this match, but Etimesgut Belediyespor have shown both competence and courage. Read more about the fixture!

Insights:
  • Kocaelispor have the most scored goals (32) in 2. Lig: Kirmizi
  • Kocaelispor have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Etimesgut Belediyespor have scored away.

Kocaelispor's stadium, Kocaeli Stadyumu, has a grass surface. Etimesgut Belediyespor 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 Etimesgut Belediyespor when playing on grass; 11 wins, 8 draws and 17 losses from 36 matches. They have scored {47 goals} in these games and conceded 56.

This promises to be an appealing game with lots of fun and excitement as both participants are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Kocaelispor form and stats

6-2-0 is the performance here at Kocaeli Stadyumu so far in the 2. Lig: Kirmizi, giving Kocaelispor a total of 20 from their 8 games here. Outstanding results! Ever since the Bucaspor 1928 game Kocaelispor has been unbeatable here at Kocaeli Stadyumu producing five straight wins.

Kocaelispor drew their last game, 2-2 away at Karacabey Birlikspor (placed 4th). There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Karacabey Birlikspor as Kaya's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes.

Before that, Kocaelispor had a home game versus Yeni Diyarbekirspor which ended with a victory 1-0.

Kocaelispor are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 5 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 0 and lost 0.

Kocaelispor can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 17 times. Kocaelispor are not conceding a lot of goals here at Kocaeli Stadyumu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.

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Etimesgut Belediyespor form and stats

Etimesgut Belediyespor have only collected 6 points from their away games in the 2. Lig: Kirmizi, after 1-3-4 (8 played). It's a growing despair in Belediyespor as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Beşir was the last player to score for the away team. Etimesgut Belediyespor haven't scored a league goal in the last 231 minutes.

Etimesgut Belediyespor failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Ankara Demirspor (placed 6th) that ended with defeat 0-4. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Ankara Demirspor was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Kastamonuspor's place.

Etimesgut Belediyespor have conceded 10 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

KocaelisporS. Kaya
S. Kaya
9 goals
KocaelisporT. Aydoğan
T. Aydoğan
7 goals
Etimesgut BelediyesporT. Yılmaz
T. Yılmaz
6 goals

Kocaelispor missing players

Etimesgut Belediyespor missing players

Kocaelispor Etimesgut Belediyespor
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 4 Played P 1 8 16
10 6 3 Won W 0 1 4
5 2 1 Drew D 0 3 5
1 0 0 Lost L 1 4 7
32 17 10 Scored S 1 8 19
17 7 6 Conceded C 2 10 21
94% 88% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
81% 75% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 81%
56% 50% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 56%
31% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 19%
19% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 50% 75% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 56%
44% 50% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
12% 12% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 25%
 
3.8 4.1 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2.7 4.1
3.5 3.3 2.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6 7.2 5.6
2.7 2 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
11.5 12.3 13.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.3 9.1
5.5 6.1 6.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.3 3.9
38% 37% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 25% 30%
 
7.6 7 7.2 Shots against (avg) S A 12 13 11.4
3.3 3.6 4.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.3 4.9
Key stats in 2. Lig: Kirmizi this season:
  • Etimesgut Belediyespor have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Etimesgut Belediyespor have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Kocaelispor have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Kocaelispor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Kocaelispor have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Etimesgut Belediyespor have scored away.
  • Kocaelispor have the most points (20) at home in 2. Lig: Kirmizi
  • Kocaelispor have the most scored goals (17) at home in 2. Lig: Kirmizi
  • Kocaelispor have the most scored goals (32) in 2. Lig: Kirmizi
  • Kocaelispor have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in 2. Lig: Kirmizi

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bucaspor 1928 16 10 5 1 28 9 8 6 1 1 16 5 8 4 4 0 12 4 19 35
2 Kocaelispor 16 10 5 1 32 17 8 6 2 0 17 7 8 4 3 1 15 10 15 35
3 Iskenderunspor A.Ş. 16 10 4 2 24 12 8 5 2 1 11 6 8 5 2 1 13 6 12 34
4 Karacabey Birlikspor 16 8 6 2 23 13 8 5 3 0 14 7 8 3 3 2 9 6 10 30
5 Duzyurtspor 16 8 5 3 18 10 8 3 3 2 7 5 8 5 2 1 11 5 8 29
6 Ankara Demirspor 16 7 6 3 23 9 8 4 4 0 12 3 8 3 2 3 11 6 14 27
7 Krklarelispor 16 6 7 3 18 13 8 4 3 1 11 6 8 2 4 2 7 7 5 25
8 Van BB 16 6 6 4 19 17 8 4 4 0 10 5 8 2 2 4 9 12 2 24
9 Serik Belediyespor 16 6 6 4 21 20 8 3 3 2 13 14 8 3 3 2 8 6 1 24
10 Zonguldak Komurspor 16 7 3 6 17 19 8 5 2 1 13 7 8 2 1 5 4 12 -2 24
11 Fethiyespor 16 5 3 8 19 26 8 5 1 2 10 8 8 0 2 6 9 18 -7 18
12 Etimesgut Belediyespor 16 4 5 7 19 21 8 3 2 3 11 11 8 1 3 4 8 10 -2 17
13 Sarıyer 16 3 8 5 18 23 8 3 2 3 12 14 8 0 6 2 6 9 -5 17
14 Kastamonuspor 16 4 5 7 15 22 8 3 3 2 7 6 8 1 2 5 8 16 -7 17
15 Adyaman 1954 16 3 6 7 14 22 8 3 4 1 8 4 8 0 2 6 6 18 -8 15
16 Balkesirspor 16 4 3 9 12 21 8 3 2 3 9 10 8 1 1 6 3 11 -9 15
17 Krsehir Belediyespor 16 2 7 7 13 20 8 2 3 3 10 11 8 0 4 4 3 9 -7 13
18 Utas Usakspor 16 3 4 9 10 22 8 1 2 5 4 12 8 2 2 4 6 10 -12 13
19 Yeni Diyarbekirspor 16 1 6 9 13 25 8 1 5 2 7 8 8 0 1 7 6 17 -12 9
20 Pazarspor 16 1 4 11 10 25 8 0 1 7 2 13 8 1 3 4 8 12 -15 7

Read more about 2. Lig: Kirmizi

The TFF Second League, also known as the TFF 2. Lig, is the third level of the Turkish football league system. TFF stands for Turkish Football Federation. The 2. Lig has two divisions with 18 teams in each. In total, three teams are promoted while six are relegated.