National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sakaryaspor or Karaköprü Belediyespor that keep their silverware dream alive.
Sakaryaspor and Karaköprü Belediyespor 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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Karaköprü Belediyespor have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-14-14 (win-draw-loss) from 36 matches.
It's quite the trip for Karaköprü Belediyespor when visiting Sakaryaspor as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.
Sakaryaspor form and stats
Last season their Turkish Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.A strong away win for Sakaryaspor against Inegolspor the last match, as O. Toprak, Ç. Menderes, T. Babaoğlu (2) and U. Sönmez were on target. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Sakaryaspor played a great game against Inegolspor and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a 2. Lig: Kirmizi home game that ended 0-0 versus Hekimoğlu Trabzon.The match schedule is unforgiving for Sakaryaspor as they have a new game in only four days, a 2. Lig: Kirmizi match thankfully also at home. Nigde Belediyespor are visiting.
Karaköprü Belediyespor form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Kzlcabolukspor in order to reach 3rd round of Turkish Cup. Karaköprü Belediyespor's mission in Turkish Cup last season failed in the 3rd round.Two points from the last two away games for Karaköprü Belediyespor, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Impressive finishing from U. Dilek (2) secured the home win 2-1 against Ağrı 1970 in their previous game.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Modafenspor.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The 3. Lig: Group 3 trip to Karsyaka.
Head 2 Head
Sakaryaspor missing players
Karaköprü Belediyespor missing players
| Sakaryaspor | Karaköprü Belediyespor | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 11 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 52 | 22 | Scored | S | 18 | 38 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Conceded | C | 15 | 28 | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 48% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 4% | ||
| 32% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 60% | ||
| 64% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 24% | ||
| 4.2 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10.1 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.4 | 8.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 3.7 | ||
| 48% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 91% | 55% | ||