Delightful dogfight as daring Fatih Karagümrük duel with determined Rizespor

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı

Fatih Karagümrük have 27 points playing as the host team. Rizespor have brought back 18 points playing away. Could we look at anything else than a home win?

Insights:
  • Rizespor have the most conceded goals (36) in Super Lig

Rizespor have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1100 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Fatih Karagümrük form and stats

When playing at home in the Super Lig, Fatih Karagümrük have managed 3 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 9 games.

The fans are hoping that Karagümrük will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Super Lig game against Gaziantep F.K. (placed 6th). Midfielder Biglia was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.02 (out of ten) in that game. Biglia hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 84 successful passes (of 96 total).

Before that, Karagümrük had a Turkish Cup home game versus Bodrumspor which ended with a victory 4-0.

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

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Beşiktaş are coming to town in three days.

Karagümrük have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı with 14 goals in 9 league matches. 12 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Rizespor form and stats

Rizespor have only collected 1 point from their away games in the Super Lig, after 0-1-8 (9 played).

There were no winners in Rizespor's previous match, a Super Lig home game that ended 2-2 vs Beşiktaş (placed 9th). Akkan had red hot gloves after the game against Beşiktaş, shaping the outcome of the game with eight saves made. Pohjanpalo, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.23. Pohjanpalo scored two goals.

A 0-1 loss hosting Gaziantep F.K. before that.

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

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Antalyaspor in just four days.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Rizespor concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

Rizespor - Fatih Karagümrük 0-0 was the result in these participants' previous head-to-head match, earlier this season. Fatih Karagümrük-Rizespor H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Karagümrük one win, Rizespor zero wins, two draws. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

KaragümrükA. Pešić
A. Pešić
11 goals
Fatih KaragümrükA. Bertolacci
A. Bertolacci
7 goals
RizesporJ. Pohjanpalo
J. Pohjanpalo
7 goals

Fatih Karagümrük missing players

Rizespor missing players

Fatih Karagümrük Rizespor
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 1 Played P 3 9 20
7 3 0 Won W 0 0 5
6 4 1 Drew D 1 1 3
7 2 0 Lost L 2 8 12
27 14 0 Scored S 2 5 19
30 12 0 Conceded C 7 24 36
90% 89% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
75% 89% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
50% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 78% 60%
45% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 30%
15% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 10%
60% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 44% 45%
25% 22% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
25% 22% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 56% 40%
 
3.5 3.4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 4.7 4.7
4.8 4.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.8 4.7
2.4 2.1 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.2 2
7 4 0 Red cards R C 2 3 4
 
10.3 10.1 14 Shots (avg) S ( 5.3 10 9.7
4.4 4.3 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.1 3.1
31% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 18% 31%
 
12.8 12.4 11 Shots against (avg) S A 16.7 15.1 13.6
5.6 5.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 6.8 5.5
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • All of Rizespor's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Fatih Karagümrük have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Rizespor have scored away.
  • Rizespor have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Rizespor have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Rizespor have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rizespor have the fewest points (1) away in Super Lig
  • Rizespor have the most conceded goals (24) away in Super Lig
  • Rizespor have the most conceded goals (36) in Super Lig
  • Rizespor have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Super Lig
  • Rizespor have the the worst goal difference (-19) away in Super Lig
  • Rizespor have yet to win a game away.
  • Rizespor 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 Trabzonspor 20 15 4 1 37 14 10 7 3 0 18 6 10 8 1 1 19 8 23 49
2 Konyaspor 20 11 6 3 32 16 11 7 3 1 17 7 9 4 3 2 15 9 16 39
3 Istanbul Basaksehir 20 10 4 6 30 20 10 7 1 2 17 8 10 3 3 4 13 12 10 34
4 Fenerbahce 19 9 5 5 31 23 9 5 3 1 18 9 10 4 2 4 13 14 8 32
5 Hatayspor 20 10 2 8 28 26 9 5 1 3 16 12 11 5 1 5 12 14 2 32
6 Gaziantep F.K. 20 9 4 7 27 27 10 8 2 0 21 8 10 1 2 7 6 19 0 31
7 Adana Demirspor 19 8 6 5 27 22 9 5 2 2 12 5 10 3 4 3 15 17 5 30
8 Sivasspor 20 7 8 5 27 20 10 3 6 1 16 8 10 4 2 4 11 12 7 29
9 Beşiktaş 20 8 5 7 32 30 10 7 1 2 21 14 10 1 4 5 11 16 2 29
10 Alanyaspor 20 8 5 7 30 32 10 4 3 3 17 15 10 4 2 4 13 17 -2 29
11 Kayserispor 20 7 6 7 28 28 10 6 3 1 16 5 10 1 3 6 12 23 0 27
12 Galatasaray 20 7 6 7 24 24 10 5 2 3 13 9 10 2 4 4 11 15 0 27
13 Fatih Karagümrük 20 7 6 7 27 30 9 3 4 2 14 12 11 4 2 5 13 18 -3 27
14 Giresunspor 20 7 4 9 20 19 10 4 2 4 11 9 10 3 2 5 9 10 1 25
15 Antalyaspor 20 6 4 10 21 31 10 5 2 3 16 12 10 1 2 7 5 19 -10 22
16 Goztepe 20 4 6 10 22 28 11 3 2 6 10 12 9 1 4 4 12 16 -6 18
17 Kasimpasa 20 4 6 10 22 29 11 4 3 4 17 15 9 0 3 6 5 14 -7 18
18 Altay 20 5 3 12 23 33 9 3 1 5 11 13 11 2 2 7 12 20 -10 18
19 Rizespor 20 5 3 12 19 36 11 5 2 4 14 12 9 0 1 8 5 24 -17 18
20 Yeni Malatyaspor 20 4 3 13 16 35 10 2 2 6 13 24 10 2 1 7 3 11 -19 15

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.