📏 Form Guide

Çaykur Rizespor

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Çaykur Rizespor will be looking for a repeat result of the 0-4 Super Lig victory over Istanbulspor.

In that match, Çaykur Rizespor had 47% possession and 23 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. For Çaykur Rizespor, goals were scored by Ibrahim Olawoyin (4'), Martin Minchev (44', 64') and David Akintola (90'). Istanbulspor had 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Three or more goals per match were seen in 6 of the past 6 meetings where Çaykur Rizespor have played. Opposition teams scored 13 times in this period while Çaykur Rizespor totted up 13.

Analysis of their past results shows that Çaykur Rizespor:

• have not lost a league tie with Antalyaspor in their previous 2 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Antalyaspor

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In their last fixture, Antalyaspor drew 1-1 in the Super Lig match with MKE Ankaragücü.

In that game, Antalyaspor managed 40% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Antalyaspor was Erdoğan Yeşilyurt (40'). On the other side, Ankaragucu had 17 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Efkan Bekiroğlu (64') was the scorer for MKE Ankaragücü.

The numbers tell their own story, and Antalyaspor have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 7 goals in total. Defensively, Antalyaspor could really do with shoring things up. Let’s see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Heading into this contest, Antalyaspor have not beaten Çaykur Rizespor in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 22/06/2020 shows us that Çaykur Rizespor have won 3 of these games and Antalyaspor 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined total of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 10 from Atmacalar and 10 netted by Akrepler. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.33.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was Super Lig match day 13 on 26/11/2023 when the final score was Antalyaspor 0-0 Çaykur Rizespor.

In that game, Antalyaspor had 52% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 10 on target.

Çaykur Rizespor got 9 shots at goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Turgut Doman.

📰 Team News: Çaykur Rizespor

The Çaykur Rizespor boss İlhan Palut will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free group ready to go.

📰 Team News: Antalyaspor

From a largely available squad, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Antalyaspor manager Sergen Yalçın to be concerned about. Bünyamin Balcı (unknown injury) won’t be playing here. Sagiv Jehezkel cannot play in this game through suspension.

🧠 Prediction

We’re thinking that Antalyaspor will likely be able to get a goal against this Çaykur Rizespor outfit, but that possibly won’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re expecting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Çaykur Rizespor at the end of the 90 minutes. Hopefully this is a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 12:06 14/04/2024