Eryaman Stadyumu: Gençlerbirliği vs Sivasspor Super Lig preview

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Date: Sun 22.December
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Eryaman Stadyumu (22000 seats)

Struggling Gençlerbirliği will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Sivasspor in the upcoming league round. It’s 13th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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 Gençlerbirliği and Sivasspor.

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Gençlerbirliği form and stats

When playing at home in the Super Lig, Gençlerbirliği have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 8 games.

The points were shared in Gençlerbirliği's previous game, also at home. Visiting Sivasspor (placed 1st) travelled back with a point after a 2-2 scoreline. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Goztepe in a game that was won 3-1.

Gençlerbirliği are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. Gençlerbirliği's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Sivasspor form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (32) in Super Lig, on their Super Lig travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Sivasspor has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Gençlerbirliği for a Super Lig game that ended a draw (2-2). A 0-1 loss hosting Erokspor before that.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Sivasspor are regular goalscorers on their travels. Sivasspor have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Gençlerbirliği - Sivasspor 2-2 played earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 2 - 5 (Gençlerbirliği wins - draws - Sivasspor wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

GençlerbirliğiB. Stancu
B. Stancu
12 goals
GençlerbirliğiG. Sio
G. Sio
7 goals
SivassporM. Yatabaré
M. Yatabaré
6 goals

Gençlerbirliği missing players

Sivasspor missing players

Gençlerbirliği Sivasspor
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 9 2 Played P 1 8 16
4 2 0 Won W 1 3 10
6 4 1 Drew D 0 3 4
6 3 1 Lost L 0 2 2
27 12 1 Scored S 4 16 34
28 13 2 Conceded C 1 11 16
94% 89% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
88% 78% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
69% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 62%
44% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 38%
25% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 12%
75% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 88% 75%
12% 11% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 25%
19% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.9 4.6 4 Corners For (avg) C F 10 6.1 6.3
4.2 4.2 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 5 4.7
2.7 3.2 6 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 2.8 2.8
4 2 1 Red Cards R C 0 1 1
 
205 114 22 Total Shots T S 19 93 203
88 50 11 Shots on Target S O 7 42 91
31% 24% 9% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 38% 37%
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • All of Sivasspor's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Sivasspor has the most scored goals (32)
  • Sivasspor has the the best goal difference (+18)
  • Sivasspor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sivasspor have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Sivasspor haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sivasspor is in the best form (5-1-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sivasspor 15 10 3 2 32 14 8 7 1 0 18 5 7 3 2 2 14 9 18 33
2 İstanbul Başakşehir 15 7 6 2 23 15 8 4 3 1 16 8 7 3 3 1 7 7 8 27
3 Beşiktaş 15 8 3 4 22 18 8 5 2 1 13 5 7 3 1 3 9 13 4 27
4 Trabzonspor 15 7 5 3 28 17 8 4 2 2 15 9 7 3 3 1 13 8 11 26
5 Fenerbahçe 15 7 4 4 29 19 7 5 1 1 21 8 8 2 3 3 8 11 10 25
6 Galatasaray 16 6 6 4 18 15 8 4 3 1 10 6 8 2 3 3 8 9 3 24
7 Yeni Malatyaspor 16 6 5 5 31 21 8 3 2 3 16 10 8 3 3 2 15 11 10 23
8 Alanyaspor 15 6 5 4 24 14 8 4 3 1 18 6 7 2 2 3 6 8 10 23
9 Goztepe 16 6 5 5 19 19 8 3 3 2 11 9 8 3 2 3 8 10 0 23
10 Gazişehir Gaziantep 16 6 5 5 25 27 8 3 2 3 14 11 8 3 3 2 11 16 -2 23
11 Denizlispor 15 6 3 6 16 16 7 2 1 4 6 7 8 4 2 2 10 9 0 21
12 Rizespor 16 6 2 8 16 25 8 4 1 3 10 9 8 2 1 5 6 16 -9 20
13 Gençlerbirliği 15 4 5 6 25 26 8 2 3 3 10 11 7 2 2 3 15 15 -1 17
14 Kasimpasa 16 4 3 9 25 29 8 1 2 5 13 17 8 3 1 4 12 12 -4 15
15 Konyaspor 15 3 6 6 14 21 7 1 4 2 5 7 8 2 2 4 9 14 -7 15
16 Antalyaspor 16 3 5 8 15 28 8 1 3 4 10 18 8 2 2 4 5 10 -13 14
17 Ankaragucu 16 2 5 9 13 32 7 1 2 4 5 14 9 1 3 5 8 18 -19 11
18 Kayserispor 15 2 4 9 13 32 7 2 2 3 7 10 8 0 2 6 6 22 -19 10

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.