Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Sivasspor welcomes Kasımpaşa

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Yeni Sivas 4 Eylül Stadyumu (27532 seats)

Sivasspor are placed 5th so far, while Kasımpaşa are lagging 16 points behind in the table. Can they reduce the gap?

Insights:
  • Kasımpaşa haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

It's quite the trip for Kasımpaşa when visiting Sivasspor as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.

Sivasspor are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For Kasımpaşa most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Sivasspor form and stats

6-9-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Super Lig numbers at home for Sivasspor so far this season. In general it's been a long time since Sivasspor tasted defeat here at Yeni Sivas 4 Eylül Stadyumu, as they have taken at least one point from their last 14 home games in the league. Sivasspor haven’t lost a league-game in 18 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Alanyaspor, 104 days ago.

Happy days for Sivasspor in their previous game, a Super Lig match away at Fenerbahçe (placed 3rd) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Preceding that game was the home draw versus İstanbul Başakşehir that ended 0-0.

Ali Şaşal Vural loved the game against Fenerbahçe. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 2-1 victory.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Sivasspor matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, one draw and one defeat (from four games).

Sivasspor aren't scoring a lot here at Yeni Sivas 4 Eylül Stadyumu in the league, with only 17 goals from 19 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Sivasspor have only conceded 14 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Kasımpaşa form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kasımpaşa so far with only 15 points returning home. The records show 3-6-10 (win-draw-lose).

Kasımpaşa go into this game after a win, the home game against Ankaragücü that ended 3-1. Preceding that game was the away victory against BB Erzurumspor with the score of 1-0.

Kasımpaşa goalie Ertuğrul Taşkıran was high and low in the Ankaragücü game, contributing six saves towards the victory.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Kasımpaşa playing away, we found three games. Results were one away win, one draw and one home win.

Kasımpaşa are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 20 away goals from 19 games (in the league). Kasımpaşa struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 30 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Kasımpaşa - Sivasspor 2-0 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Sivasspor wins - draws - Kasımpaşa wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SivassporM. Gradel
M. Gradel
10 goals
SivassporM. Yatabaré
M. Yatabaré
10 goals
KasımpaşaI. Thelin
I. Thelin
9 goals

Sivasspor missing players

Kasımpaşa missing players

Sivasspor Kasımpaşa
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
39 19 6 Played P 6 19 39
15 6 4 Won W 2 3 12
17 9 0 Drew D 0 6 10
7 4 2 Lost L 4 10 17
52 17 7 Scored S 9 20 46
42 14 5 Conceded C 13 30 55
82% 68% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
69% 53% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 74% 72%
41% 26% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 83% 47% 49%
28% 16% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 21% 26%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 13%
56% 37% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 63% 51%
31% 47% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 5% 23%
31% 47% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 32% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.7 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.3 2.1
4 1 1 Red cards R C 2 5 7
 
9.5 9.9 10.8 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 7.8 9.5
4.1 4.1 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.6 4.1
33% 22% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 29% 29%
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • Kasımpaşa 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 Beşiktaş 39 25 6 8 87 43 20 14 3 3 49 14 19 11 3 5 38 29 44 81
2 Galatasaray 39 25 6 8 77 35 19 11 6 2 42 16 20 14 0 6 35 19 42 81
3 Fenerbahçe 39 24 7 8 70 40 20 11 2 7 34 25 19 13 5 1 36 15 30 79
4 Trabzonspor 39 18 14 7 48 36 19 10 3 6 28 23 20 8 11 1 20 13 12 68
5 Sivasspor 39 15 17 7 52 42 19 6 9 4 17 14 20 9 8 3 35 28 10 62
6 Hatayspor 39 17 10 12 62 52 19 10 4 5 35 22 20 7 6 7 27 30 10 61
7 Alanyaspor 39 16 9 14 57 45 20 12 4 4 42 21 19 4 5 10 15 24 12 57
8 Fatih Karagümrük 39 15 12 12 59 51 19 11 4 4 37 19 20 4 8 8 22 32 8 57
9 Gazişehir Gaziantep 39 14 13 12 58 51 20 10 6 4 37 24 19 4 7 8 21 27 7 55
10 Göztepe 39 13 12 14 58 57 19 8 5 6 34 25 20 5 7 8 24 32 1 51
11 Konyaspor 39 12 13 14 49 48 20 7 9 4 27 19 19 5 4 10 22 29 1 49
12 Rizespor 39 12 12 15 53 67 19 7 7 5 27 28 20 5 5 10 26 39 -14 48
13 Kasımpaşa 39 12 10 17 46 55 20 9 4 7 26 25 19 3 6 10 20 30 -9 46
14 Yeni Malatyaspor 39 10 15 14 48 50 20 7 8 5 26 22 19 3 7 9 22 28 -2 45
15 İstanbul Başakşehir 39 11 12 16 41 55 20 5 8 7 26 28 19 6 4 9 15 27 -14 45
16 Antalyaspor 39 9 16 14 41 55 19 6 6 7 24 28 20 3 10 7 17 27 -14 43
17 Kayserispor 39 9 14 16 34 50 19 5 7 7 19 23 20 4 7 9 15 27 -16 41
18 BB Erzurumspor 40 10 10 20 44 68 20 2 8 10 18 30 20 8 2 10 26 38 -24 40
19 Ankaragücü 39 10 8 21 46 64 19 8 3 8 26 24 20 2 5 13 20 40 -18 38
20 Gençlerbirliği 39 10 8 21 43 74 20 6 5 9 27 35 19 4 3 12 16 39 -31 38
21 Denizlispor 39 6 10 23 37 72 20 4 6 10 17 27 19 2 4 13 20 45 -35 28

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.