This match stars two participants dwelling in the basement of the Super Lig, Giresunspor at 17th place and İstanbulspor sitting at 18th. A good opportunity for one of the participants to boost their position.
- Giresunspor have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Super Lig
- İstanbulspor have the most conceded goals (22) in Super Lig
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
This has all the signs of an engrossing match with lots of action and energy as both sides are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!
Giresunspor form and stats
Giresunspor have played 5 Super Lig games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Giresunspor are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus Istanbul Basaksehir. The forward Bajić bested all teammates in that fixture and was awarded a match rating of 7.34 out of 10. Bajić served one assist and hit one key pass.
In the match before that, Giresunspor hosted Ankaragucu and drew the game 1-1.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 Giresunspor have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 1 and lost 4.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Osmanlspor are coming to town in four days.
Giresunspor aren't scoring a lot here at Çotanak Stadyumu in the league, with only {4 goals} from 5 games. On the other hand, Giresunspor have conceded 6 goals.
İstanbulspor form and stats
2-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for İstanbulspor, who have the most conceded goals (22) in Super Lig, in their Super Lig matches away. It's looking increasingly bleak for İstanbulspor who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Fatih Karagumruk was the last time a defeat was avoided.
İstanbulspor might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Fenerbahce proved too strong as İstanbulspor slumped to a 2-5 defeat in front of their own fans at Bahçelievler İl Özel İdare Stadyumu. A stark raving crazy fixture with lots of goals last time out for İstanbulspor, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that game, will this match be as gleeful? Topalli got a match rating of 7.72 in that game, top player of the team. Topalli scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, the İstanbulspor manager Korkmaz faced defeat when travelling to Antalyaspor and losing 1-2.İstanbulspor are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 7 goals have been conceded by İstanbulspor in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Giresunspor three wins, three draws and İstanbulspor four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Bajić 3 goals |  V. Ethemi 3 goals |  J. Topalli 3 goals |
Giresunspor missing players
İstanbulspor missing players
| Giresunspor | İstanbulspor | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 17 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 40% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 82% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 55% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 45% | 40% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 55% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 9% |
| 36% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 4.5 | 6.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| 5.3 | 5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 7.2 | 5.9 |
| 2.5 | 3.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.5 | 13.4 | 20 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.2 | 8.7 |
| 4.9 | 5.4 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 15% | 15% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 22% | 25% |
| 11.8 | 11 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 12.5 | 12.7 |
| 4.3 | 4.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.3 | 6.2 |
- Giresunspor have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Giresunspor have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Super Lig
- Giresunspor have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Giresunspor haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- İstanbulspor have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- İstanbulspor have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- İstanbulspor have the most conceded goals (22) in Super Lig
- İstanbulspor have the the worst goal difference (-12) in Super Lig
- İstanbulspor haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Fenerbahce | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 22 | 26 |
| 2 | Istanbul Basaksehir | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 23 |
| 3 | Adana Demirspor | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 23 |
| 4 | Beşiktaş | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| 5 | Galatasaray | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Trabzonspor | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | Konyaspor | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| 8 | Kayserispor | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 9 | Alanyaspor | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 10 | Gazisehir Gaziantep | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 15 |
| 11 | Kasimpasa | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -11 | 14 |
| 12 | Antalyaspor | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 13 |
| 13 | Fatih Karagumruk | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 12 |
| 14 | Ankaragucu | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 11 |
| 15 | Sivasspor | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 16 | Hatayspor | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 10 |
| 17 | Giresunspor | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 9 |
| 18 | İstanbulspor | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -12 | 8 |
| 19 | Umraniyespor | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -11 | 3 |
