Trabzonspor welcomes Gençlerbirliği as clear favourites: Big betting preview

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Medical Park Stadyumu (43223 seats)

Trabzonspor greet Gençlerbirliği with expectations of taking all three points. Will they? Read our preview!

Insights:
  • Trabzonspor have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (12) in Super Lig
  • Gençlerbirliği have the most conceded goals (74) in Super Lig

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.

Gençlerbirliği are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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Trabzonspor form and stats

The story so far in the Super Lig for Trabzonspor at their home stadium (Medical Park Stadyumu) is 10 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats. Trabzonspor haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Alanyaspor, 68 days ago. Trabzonspor has recorded two wins in a row here at Medical Park Stadyumu, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Trabzonspor shared the glory with Konyaspor in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Ahead of that match, Trabzonspor won a home game hosting Antalyaspor (2-1).

Trabzonspor has scored 28 league goals at home this season, in 19 matches. Trabzonspor have conceded 23 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Gençlerbirliği form and stats

There's been little loot from Gençlerbirliği's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 19 away games in the Super Lig. Gençlerbirliği, who have the most conceded goals (74) in Super Lig, only have 4 wins to counter their 12 defeats and 3 draws. Gençlerbirliği has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Gençlerbirliği go into this game after a win, the home game against Göztepe that ended 5-3. A 1-5 defeat away at Fatih Karagümrük before that.

An amazing comeback from Gençlerbirliği last time out, trailing 0-2 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to Bogdan Stancu scoring the winning goal in the 83rd minute. As you can tell from the result, the match against Göztepe was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 8 goals, will the fun continue today?

The visitors have scored 16 goals from 19 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The Gençlerbirliği manager ?. Bizati has some worries about the defense as 39 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Trabzonspor and Gençlerbirliği have met before this season: Gençlerbirliği - Trabzonspor 1-2. Trabzonspor-Gençlerbirliği H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Trabzonspor four wins, Gençlerbirliği one win, five draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

TrabzonsporC. Ekuban
C. Ekuban
9 goals
TrabzonsporJ. Tavares Semedo
J. Tavares Semedo
8 goals
TrabzonsporA. Nwakaeme
A. Nwakaeme
7 goals

Trabzonspor missing players

Gençlerbirliği missing players

Trabzonspor Gençlerbirliği
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
39 19 6 Played P 6 19 39
18 10 4 Won W 3 4 10
14 3 1 Drew D 0 3 8
7 6 1 Lost L 3 12 21
48 28 9 Scored S 7 16 43
36 23 5 Conceded C 14 39 74
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 95% 95%
67% 74% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 79% 82%
33% 42% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 83% 63% 62%
18% 32% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 32% 31%
5% 11% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 11% 15%
56% 58% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 58% 67%
36% 26% 33% Clean Sheets C S 17% 16% 10%
21% 16% 17% Failed to Score F T 17% 32% 28%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2.4
7 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
11.1 12.4 15.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 8.3 9.1
4.3 5.1 6.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 2.9 3.2
28% 29% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 37% 29% 34%
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • Gençlerbirliği have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Gençlerbirliği have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Gençlerbirliği have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Super Lig
  • Gençlerbirliği have the most conceded goals (74) in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Trabzonspor have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (12) in Super Lig
  • Trabzonspor haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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.