📏 Form Guide

Antalyaspor

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Antalyaspor won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 3-0 Super Lig losing effort in their last game against Çaykur Rizespor.

In that game, Antalyaspor managed 67% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. At the other end, Caykur Rizespor had 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Altin Zeqiri (33', 60') and Adolfo Gaich (82') scored for Çaykur Rizespor.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Antalyaspor have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Antalyaspor have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 8 goals in the process.

Leading up to this clash, Antalyaspor:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Hatayspor in their last 4 games.
• are undefeated in their last 3 league matches at home.

Hatayspor

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Istanbulspor in Super Lig action, Hatayspor and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Hatayspor managed 57% possession and 13 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. For their opponents, Istanbulspor got 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Florian Loshaj (68'), Mendy Mamadou (71') and Vefa Temel (87') scored for Istanbulspor.

The attacking players from Hatayspor have had real problems scoring goals in their past six encounters, contributing the disappointing return of just 4. In those matches, Hatayspor have also seen the collective goal tally against them equal 9. We will just have to see whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that Hatayspor:

• haven't won against Antalyaspor when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 20/04/2021, there has been little between the sides with Antalyaspor winning 2 of those games, Hatayspor 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league match featuring the two was Super Lig match day 14 on 01/12/2023 when it ended Hatayspor 3-3 Antalyaspor.

In that game, Hatayspor managed 51% possession and 14 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Carlos Strandberg (19'), Kerim Alıcı (62') and Guy-Marcelin Kilama (71').

Antalyaspor had 12 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Erdoğan Yeşilyurt (35') and Adam Buksa (57', 88') scored.

The match was refereed by Yiğit Arslan.

📰 Team News: Antalyaspor

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Antalyaspor boss Sergen Yalçın to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Bünyamin Balcı (unknown injury) misses out. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Sagiv Jehezkel and Kağan Arıcan.

We are thinking that Akrepler may well line up in a 4-1-4-1 formation for this game and select Helton Leite, Güray Vural, Veysel Sari, Bahadir Ozturk, Erdogan Yesilyurt, Jakub Kaluzinski, Sander Van de Streek, Dario Saric, Ramzi Safuri, Sam Larsson and Adam Buksa.

📋 Team News: Hatayspor

Owing to a completely injury-free squad available to select from, the Hatayspor manager Volkan Demirel doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match.

We believe Hatayspor might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Erce Kardesler, Rigoberto Rivas, Guy-Marcelin Kilama, Nikola Maksimovic, Faouzi Ghoulam, Massanga Matondo, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, Kerim Alici, Rui Pedro, Halil Dervisoglu and Carlos Strandberg.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Hatayspor will have to play well to get anything against this Antalyaspor side who we think might well emerge victorious.

Therefore, we predict a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning margin for Antalyaspor when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Victor Martins, 15:05 21/04/2024