Super Lig preview: Can Beşiktaş edge out victory against Sivasspor?

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Mon 28.December
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Vodafone Arena (8323 seats)

Beşiktaş perform at a high level so far being 5th in the table. Sivasspor can look both up and down from their 13th position.

Insights:
  • Beşiktaş have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Sivasspor have not yet lost a game away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Beşiktaş and Sivasspor.

It's quite the trip for Sivasspor when visiting Beşiktaş as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.

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Beşiktaş form and stats

13 points is a decent return from 6 Super Lig games here at Vodafone Arena for Beşiktaş. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Ever since the Gençlerbirliği game Beşiktaş has been unbeatable here at Vodafone Arena producing four straight wins.

Beşiktaş drew their last game, 0-0 away at Ankaragücü (placed 20th). Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against BB Erzurumspor.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Beşiktaş handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, three draws and two defeats.

The Beşiktaş manager A. Yalçın has got the team scoring with 12 from 6 home games in the league. Beşiktaş are not conceding a lot of goals here at Vodafone Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Sivasspor form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 3 wins, 3 draws and only 0 losses in the Super Lig.

Hakan Arslan, Max Gradel and Mustapha Yatabare scored in Sivasspor's previous match, the home game against Gençlerbirliği that ended 3-1. Prior to that result Sivasspor won their away game at Konyaspor. The scoreline was 1-0.

We have checked recent matches where Sivasspor have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were three victories, one draw and six defeats.

Sivasspor are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Sivasspor as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - zero - five (Beşiktaş wins - draws - Sivasspor wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

BeşiktaşV. Aboubakar
V. Aboubakar
8 goals
BeşiktaşC. Larin
C. Larin
5 goals
BeşiktaşA. Hutchinson
A. Hutchinson
3 goals

Beşiktaş missing players

Sivasspor missing players

Beşiktaş Sivasspor
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 3 Played P 2 6 13
7 4 2 Won W 0 3 4
2 1 1 Drew D 2 3 5
4 1 0 Lost L 0 0 4
25 12 5 Scored S 2 9 13
19 4 1 Conceded C 2 5 13
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 85%
77% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 69%
69% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 31%
54% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 15%
31% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
62% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 54%
31% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 23%
15% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 38%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.7 1.9
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 13.8 14 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.5 8.3
4.3 5.3 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.7 3.5
45% 38% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 41% 28%
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • Beşiktaş have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Beşiktaş haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sivasspor have not yet lost a game away.
  • Sivasspor have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sivasspor have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Sivasspor 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 Alanyaspor 14 8 3 3 23 9 7 5 2 0 15 3 7 3 1 3 8 6 14 27
2 Galatasaray 13 8 2 3 23 10 7 4 2 1 12 5 6 4 0 2 11 5 13 26
3 Fenerbahce 14 8 2 4 27 20 7 3 1 3 12 12 7 5 1 1 15 8 7 26
4 Gazisehir Gaziantep 13 6 6 1 24 15 6 3 3 0 12 7 7 3 3 1 12 8 9 24
5 Beşiktaş 12 7 1 4 25 19 6 4 1 1 12 4 6 3 0 3 13 15 6 22
6 Hatayspor 13 6 3 4 14 16 7 4 2 1 12 5 6 2 1 3 2 11 -2 21
7 Fatih Karagumruk 13 5 5 3 22 16 7 5 2 0 16 5 6 0 3 3 6 11 6 20
8 Yeni Malatyaspor 13 5 5 3 17 14 6 4 2 0 9 3 7 1 3 3 8 11 3 20
9 Trabzonspor 14 5 5 4 16 17 7 3 1 3 11 12 7 2 4 1 5 5 -1 20
10 Konyaspor 13 5 3 5 17 13 6 3 1 2 10 6 7 2 2 3 7 7 4 18
11 Goztepe 14 4 6 4 20 17 7 3 2 2 14 9 7 1 4 2 6 8 3 18
12 Kasimpasa 14 5 3 6 16 21 7 4 2 1 10 8 7 1 1 5 6 13 -5 18
13 Sivasspor 13 4 5 4 13 13 7 1 2 4 4 8 6 3 3 0 9 5 0 17
14 Antalyaspor 13 4 5 4 14 16 7 4 1 2 8 5 6 0 4 2 6 11 -2 17
15 Istanbul Basaksehir 13 4 3 6 19 22 6 2 2 2 11 9 7 2 1 4 8 13 -3 15
16 Rizespor 12 4 3 5 17 20 6 3 1 2 11 12 6 1 2 3 6 8 -3 15
17 Denizlispor 13 3 3 7 13 22 6 1 2 3 3 6 7 2 1 4 10 16 -9 12
18 Gençlerbirliği 13 3 3 7 11 21 6 1 3 2 6 10 7 2 0 5 5 11 -10 12
19 Kayserispor 13 2 4 7 7 16 7 1 2 4 4 9 6 1 2 3 3 7 -9 10
20 Ankaragücü 12 2 3 7 14 20 6 2 1 3 9 9 6 0 2 4 5 11 -6 9
21 BB Erzurumspor 14 2 3 9 12 27 7 0 3 4 6 10 7 2 0 5 6 17 -15 9

Read more about Super Lig

The Süper Lig is the top league in Turkish football. It has 18 teams who play a season from August to May, meeting each other home and away. After all fixtures have been played the final league table is ready and the champion of Turkey celebrated. The three bottom teams are relegated.