Galatasaray supporters put their faith in manager F. Terim to deliver victory against Trabzonspor

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Wed 21.April
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Türk Telekom Stadyumu (52650 seats)

A key match in Super Lig as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Galatasaray in 3rd position and Trabzonspor placed 4th, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Galatasaray have the most clean sheets (14) in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super Lig

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 Galatasaray and Trabzonspor.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Galatasaray form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 16 Super Lig games here at Türk Telekom Stadyumu for Galatasaray. The data says 9 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses.

A good away victory last time out for Galatasaray, who won 3-1 against Göztepe (placed 10th). In the match before that, Galatasaray hosted Fatih Karagümrük and drew the game 1-1.

Muhammed Kerem Aktürkoğlu was absolutely essential when Galatasaray beat Göztepe 3-1, scoring three goals.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Galatasaray have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found seven games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost one.

The manager F. Terim will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Antalyaspor in only three days.

Galatasaray can score goals in their home matches. After 16 league matches they have found the net 37 times. Galatasaray are not conceding a lot of goals here at Türk Telekom Stadyumu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 16 matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Trabzonspor form and stats

Playing away, Trabzonspor, who have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Super Lig, have won 8 games, drawn 8 and suffered 1 defeat in the Super Lig this season. Trabzonspor are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played 14 in a row without losing. Trabzonspor has showed their ability to avoid defeat with four draws in a row, but are also dodging victories. They last avoided the draw 32 days ago, in the Ankaragücü fixture.

Trabzonspor played 1-1 against Hatayspor in their previous match. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Rizespor.

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

A quick return to home after this game, as Trabzonspor are hosting Fatih Karagümrük in the Super Lig only three days away.

Trabzonspor are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 17 away goals from 17 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Trabzonspor as they have only conceded 10 goals from these away games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Trabzonspor - Galatasaray 0-2. Galatasaray-Trabzonspor H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Galatasaray four wins, Trabzonspor five wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

GalatasarayR. García Zárate
R. García Zárate
8 goals
TrabzonsporC. Ekuban
C. Ekuban
8 goals
GalatasarayM. Aktürkoğlu
M. Aktürkoğlu
6 goals

Galatasaray missing players

Trabzonspor missing players

Galatasaray Trabzonspor
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 5 17 34
20 9 2 Won W 2 8 16
5 5 1 Drew D 2 8 11
8 2 1 Lost L 1 1 7
65 37 7 Scored S 6 17 41
32 14 3 Conceded C 6 10 32
94% 88% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 85%
79% 81% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 53% 62%
61% 62% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 29% 35%
27% 38% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 6% 21%
12% 19% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
48% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 80% 47% 53%
42% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 20% 53% 38%
15% 12% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.5 4.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 1.9
8 4 1 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
12.5 13.8 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 8.6 9.8 10.9
5.3 6.5 6.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.3 4.1
37% 36% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 30% 30%
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • Galatasaray have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Galatasaray have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Galatasaray have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Trabzonspor have scored away.
  • Galatasaray have the most clean sheets (14) in Super Lig
  • Galatasaray have the most scored goals in the first half (32) in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (11) in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor have the most clean sheets (9) away in Super Lig

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Besiktas 33 22 5 6 72 35 17 12 3 2 38 11 16 10 2 4 34 24 37 71
2 Fenerbahce 33 20 6 7 59 33 17 9 2 6 27 20 16 11 4 1 32 13 26 66
3 Galatasaray 33 20 5 8 65 32 16 9 5 2 37 14 17 11 0 6 28 18 33 65
4 Trabzonspor 34 16 11 7 41 32 17 8 3 6 24 22 17 8 8 1 17 10 9 59
5 Alanyaspor 34 15 7 12 52 37 17 11 3 3 37 16 17 4 4 9 15 21 15 52
6 Hatayspor 33 14 8 11 54 41 16 7 4 5 28 19 17 7 4 6 26 22 13 50
7 Gazisehir Gaziantep 32 13 11 8 47 37 16 10 5 1 29 13 16 3 6 7 18 24 10 50
8 Sivasspor 33 12 14 7 47 40 16 5 7 4 16 14 17 7 7 3 31 26 7 50
9 Fatih Karagümrük 33 13 10 10 48 39 16 10 2 4 29 15 17 3 8 6 19 24 9 49
10 Göztepe 34 12 10 12 50 47 17 8 4 5 33 23 17 4 6 7 17 24 3 46
11 Antalyaspor 34 9 15 10 34 44 17 6 6 5 22 24 17 3 9 5 12 20 -10 42
12 Konyaspor 33 10 11 12 39 40 17 6 7 4 21 17 16 4 4 8 18 23 -1 41
13 Rizespor 33 9 12 12 39 51 16 6 7 3 20 18 17 3 5 9 19 33 -12 39
14 Yeni Malatyaspor 33 8 13 12 40 45 17 6 6 5 22 19 16 2 7 7 18 26 -5 37
15 Ankaragücü 33 10 7 16 41 53 16 8 2 6 24 20 17 2 5 10 17 33 -12 37
16 Kasimpasa 33 9 9 15 35 48 17 7 4 6 20 23 16 2 5 9 15 25 -13 36
17 Kayserispor 33 8 10 15 24 41 16 4 5 7 11 18 17 4 5 8 13 23 -17 34
18 Istanbul Basaksehir 32 8 9 15 35 51 16 4 6 6 23 25 16 4 3 9 12 26 -16 33
19 BB Erzurumspor 34 7 10 17 35 58 17 1 8 8 16 27 17 6 2 9 19 31 -23 31
20 Genclerbirligi 33 8 7 18 32 58 17 4 5 8 20 29 16 4 2 10 12 29 -26 31
21 Denizlispor 33 6 8 19 31 58 17 4 5 8 15 21 16 2 3 11 16 37 -27 26

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.