After the first set of fixtures it's Gaziantep F.K. - Ankaragücü 1-1 in points. Who will carry the day in this second Super Lig game of the season?
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.
Gaziantep F.K. form and stats
The previous season, Gaziantep F.K.'s league results were 15 wins, 13 draws and 12 losses, resulting in 9th spot in the Super Lig. In these 40 matches they scored 59 goals and gave away 51. Performing at home in the last season Gaziantep F.K. delivered 10-6-4 (win-draw-lost) with 37 goals and 24 conceded.
Gaziantep shared the glory with Sivasspor in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Midfielder Maxim was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.85 (out of ten) in that game. Maxim scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 43 successful passes (of 49 total).
Ahead of that match, Gaziantep F.K. lost 0-1 at home to Eyupspor.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 Gaziantep F.K. have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.
Ankaragücü form and stats
Let's have a look at how Ankaragücü performed last season in the Super Lig: They landed a 19th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 8 draws and 22 defeats. In total they scored 46 and conceded 65 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 5 and lost 13 with 20/40 goals scored/conceded.
The attacking players of Ankaragücü have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 185 minutes.
Ankaragücü's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Konyaspor that finished 0-0. Midfielder Zahid was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.62. Zahid hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 42 successful passes (of 48 total).
Ankaragücü are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Head 2 Head
Gaziantep have won or drawn the last 4 matches (3-1-0) versus Ankaragücü.H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Gaziantep F.K. four wins, three draws and Ankaragücü one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Maxim 1 goals |
Gaziantep F.K. missing players
Ankaragücü missing players
| Gaziantep F.K. | Ankaragücü | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gaziantep F.K. | Last season | Ankaragücü | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 11 | 10 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | ||
| 7 | 6 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13 | 11 | Scored | S | 5 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 9 | Conceded | C | 5 | 5 | ||
| 91% | 90% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 55% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 9% | 10% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | ||
| 9% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | ||
| 36% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | ||
| 55% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | ||
| 18% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Istanbul Basaksehir | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Alanyaspor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Trabzonspor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Adana Demirspor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Besiktas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Galatasaray | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Fenerbahçe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Ümraniyespor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Gaziantep F.K. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Sivasspor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Ankaragücü | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Konyaspor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Hatayspor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Giresunspor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Antalyaspor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Kayserispor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Fatih Karagumruk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 18 | Istanbulspor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 19 | Kasimpasa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
