Kocaelispor vs Balıkesirspor Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Kocaelispor

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Kocaelispor will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-0 1. Lig defeat in their last game at the hands of Boluspor.

A common feature of recent Kocaelispor games is the number of nil scores.

From their previous 6 matches before this one, in 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would've lost. That trend isn’t assured to be continued into this next game, however.

Balıkesirspor

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Tuzlaspor in 1. Lig competition, Balıkesirspor will be hoping to turn things around here.

The forward players for Balıkesirspor have made hard work of scoring goals over their previous 6 encounters, recording the poor return of just 3. In those fixtures, Balkes have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 14.

Coming into this contest, Balıkesirspor are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🗞️ Team News: Kocaelispor

There’s just the lone fitness concern for the Kocaelispor manager to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy squad. Hasan Hatipoglu (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) will miss out.

🗞️ Team News: Balıkesirspor

Thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go, the Balıkesirspor boss Giray Bulak has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Kocaelispor will probably convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, Balıkesirspor might well find it a difficult task finding the net themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be hitting back at some stage here.

We’re predicting a fairly comfortable 3-1 margin for Kocaelispor by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 10:53 15/09/2021