An important duel in the bottom section of the Super Lig, with both Konyaspor and Rizespor experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 16th and the visitors in 15th place.
Konyaspor and Rizespor should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
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.
Konyaspor are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Rizespor are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.
Konyaspor form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super Lig this season. Konyaspor have only managed 2 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses from their games here at Konya Büyükşehir Belediye Stadyumu.
In their previous game, the manager B. Korkmaz led his Konyaspor to a defeat in the Super Lig match away at Beşiktaş. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Konya Büyükşehir Belediye Stadyumu. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Sivasspor.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Konyaspor as they are travelling to their away game against Gazisehir Gaziantep in the Super Lig. That match is four days after this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Konyaspor here at Konya Büyükşehir Belediye Stadyumu in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (9 from 14 games). 16 goals have been conceded.
Rizespor form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Rizespor so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-10 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Rizespor as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Sivasspor match.
Rizespor delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Denizlispor (placed 12th) in their previous match; a Super Lig game. A 1-3 defeat away at Antalyaspor before that.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Rizespor's duel with Denizlispor. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Fernando Boldrin found the equalizer.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Kayserispor in just four days.
The attacking power of Rizespor when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 14 league matches away. For Rizespor, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Rizespor - Konyaspor 3-1. Last ten meetings between the teams: Konyaspor won two, Rizespor won three and five draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Škoda 7 goals |   F. Miya 5 goals | F. Boldrin 5 goals |
Konyaspor missing players
Rizespor missing players
| Konyaspor | Rizespor | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 29 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 24 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 31 |
| 40 | 16 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 31 | 49 |
| 83% | 71% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 62% | 50% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 86% | 86% |
| 41% | 36% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 36% | 48% |
| 24% | 21% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 21% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 21% | 10% |
| 48% | 36% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 43% | 52% |
| 28% | 36% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 14% | 24% |
| 41% | 57% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 43% | 28% |
| 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 5.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 6.1 | 5.2 |
| 2.3 | 2.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 307 | 173 | 62 | Total Shots | T S | 49 | 125 | 295 |
| 103 | 59 | 21 | Shots on Target | S O | 17 | 42 | 110 |
| 23% | 15% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 26% | 28% |
- Konyaspor has the fewest scored goals (24)
- Konyaspor has the fewest scored goals (9) at home
- Konyaspor has the fewest scored goals in the second half (9)
- Konyaspor have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Rizespor has the fewest points from losing position (2)
- Rizespor has the fewest scored goals (11) away
- Rizespor have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Rizespor haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | İstanbul Başakşehir | 29 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 55 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 28 | 60 |
| 2 | Trabzonspor | 29 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 65 | 32 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 27 | 15 | 33 | 58 |
| 3 | Sivasspor | 29 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 50 | 33 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 53 |
| 4 | Galatasaray | 29 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 48 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 52 |
| 5 | Beşiktaş | 29 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 49 | 35 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 14 | 50 |
| 6 | Fenerbahçe | 29 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 51 | 39 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 12 | 46 |
| 7 | Alanyaspor | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 49 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 45 |
| 8 | Göztepe | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 36 | 38 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 18 | -2 | 38 |
| 9 | Gazisehir Gaziantep | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 28 | -4 | 38 |
| 10 | Antalyaspor | 29 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 46 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 21 | -11 | 37 |
| 11 | Kasımpaşa | 29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 44 | 51 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 28 | -7 | 35 |
| 12 | Denizlispor | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 29 | 43 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 20 | -14 | 32 |
| 13 | Genclerbirligi | 29 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 35 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 30 | -14 | 31 |
| 14 | Rizespor | 29 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 49 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 31 | -18 | 29 |
| 15 | Yeni Malatyaspor | 29 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 43 | 46 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 26 | -3 | 28 |
| 16 | Kayserispor | 29 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 64 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 44 | -31 | 28 |
| 17 | Konyaspor | 29 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 40 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 24 | -16 | 27 |
| 18 | Ankaragucu | 29 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 26 | 49 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -23 | 25 |