Open game expected at Göztepe Gürsel Aksel Stadı: Göztepe vs Adana Demirspor preview

Göztepe's stadium, Göztepe Gürsel Aksel Stadı, has a artifical turf surface. Adana Demirspor have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Adana Demirspor when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses from five matches. They have scored 7 goals in these games and conceded 4.

These teams have little in common geographically as Adana Demirspor have to travel 900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

These are busy days for the hosts, as they had a match only three days ago in the Super Lig. That game was an away game at Besiktas, so at least Göztepe are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Göztepe form and stats

With 2 Super Lig wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats from their home games, Göztepe, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Super Lig, are certainly not brimming with confidence. Göztepe has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager El Maestro and the players.

Göztepe are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Besiktas. The penalty miss from Aydoğdu in the defeat against Besiktas was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen. Midfield player Nwobodo got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, the max score being 10. Nwobodo hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Ahead of that match, Göztepe lost 0-1 at home to Fatih Karagumruk.

This is expected to be a close game, with Göztepe perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Göztepe as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Göztepe has won five of these, drawn two and lost eight.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Göztepe, as the Turkish Cup home game vs Samsunspor is only three days away.

Göztepe aren't scoring a lot here at Göztepe Gürsel Aksel Stadı in the league, with only 5 goals from 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Göztepe have conceded 11 in these home matches.

Adana Demirspor form and stats

As the visiting team in Super Lig matches, Adana Demirspor have produced an overall stat of 3-3-3 so far.

Demirspor won their last game, 2-0 versus Galatasaray played at home. Midfielder Akgün was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.34. Akgün scored two goals, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 6 times and had 18 successful passes (of 22 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Alanyaspor with the score of 3-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Adana Demirspor in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Adana Demirspor, one draw and seven defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Demirspor are hosting Osmanlspor in the Turkish Cup only three days away.

Demirspor has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 14 goals from 9 games. As for defending, Demirspor rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's one Göztepe victory, zero draws and five Adana Demirspor wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

M. Barwuah Balotelli 6 goals

B. Assombalonga 5 goals

Y. Akgün 5 goals

Göztepe missing players

Adana Demirspor missing players