Besiktas vs Fatih Karagumruk - prediction, team news, lineups

Fresh from a ascendant triumph to scope the Turkiye Kupasi semi-finals, Besiktas instrumentality to league enactment connected Monday erstwhile they play big to Fatih Karagumruk successful circular 31 of the Turkish Super Lig.

While the visitors cognize thing little than a triumph astatine the Tupras Stadium volition each but extremity their endurance hopes, the Black Eagles volition beryllium looking to support their slim chances of securing Europa League qualification alive.

Match preview

Besiktas turned successful a ascendant squad show successful the Turkiye Kupasi quarter-finals connected Thursday erstwhile they made airy enactment of Alanyaspor to unafraid a 3-0 victory astatine the Tupras Stadium.

El Bilal Toure grabbed his archetypal extremity since January with a 17th-minute effort to nonstop the location broadside connected their mode earlier Hyeon-gyu Oh and Orkun Kokcu netted successful a precocious two-minute spell to nonstop Alanyaspor packing.

With Besiktas eyeing European qualification, caput manager Sergen Yalcin volition anticipation the cupful effect tin animate a tally of results down the decisive last agelong of the season, having mislaid 2 of their astir caller 3 matches.

Since going unbeaten successful 15 of their 16 league games betwixt November 8 and March 19, the Black Eagles person suffered back-to-back distant defeats against Fenerbahce and Samsunspor, with a 4-2 location triumph implicit Alanyaspor sandwiched betwixt the 2 losses.

Despite their caller slump, Besiktas are good connected people to unafraid a spot successful Europe adjacent season, arsenic they beryllium 4th successful the Super Lig standings with 55 points from 30 matches, 4 points down fifth-placed Istanbul Basaksehir conscionable beneath the Conference League qualifying spot with 4 games to go.

At the other extremity of the table, Fatih Karagumruk suffered a caller stroke successful their combat against the driblet past play erstwhile they fell to a 2-1 decision against 10-man Eyupspor astatine the Ataturk Olympic Stadium.

In a crippled wherever Seyfettin Anil Yasar received his marching orders, Serginho struck successful the 16th infinitesimal to enactment the hosts successful front, but a 39th-minute ain extremity from Matias Kranevitter enactment Eypspor backmost successful the necktie earlier Mateusz Legowski completed the comeback connected the changeable of fractional time.

Having suffered a 3-0 hammering astatine the hands of Konyaspor a fortnight ago, Fatih Karagumruk person present mislaid 3 of their astir caller 4 matches portion managing conscionable 2 wins from their 9 league games since mid February.

This mediocre tally of results has seen Aleksandar Stanojevic’s men plunge to the bottommost of the Super Lig array with 20 points from 30 matches, putting them successful superior hazard of an contiguous instrumentality to the 2nd tier, having gained promotion past season.

While triumph connected Monday could enactment Karagumruk wrong 5 points of safety, they are up against an opposing broadside whom they person failed to get the amended of successful immoderate of their past 8 meetings, including 3 defeats from their astir caller 3 encounters since August 2023.

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Team News

Besiktas volition person to header without the duo of Ersin Destanoglu and Panamanian defender Michael Murillo, who are suspended for Monday’s necktie owed to accumulated yellowish cards.

On the wounded front, Yalcin volition beryllium incapable to telephone upon the services of 25-year-old midfielder Kartal Yilmaz, who has been ruled retired aft sustaining a torn ankle ligament.

Meanwhile, Fatih Karagumruk volition person to header without Gabonese planetary Shavy Warren Babicka, who was forced disconnected injured midway done the archetypal fractional against Eyupspor past Saturday.

Daniele Verde was substituted retired successful the 2nd fractional against Eyupspor with an wounded and the 29-year-old striker is besides a large uncertainty for Monday’s visitors, portion Joao Camacho continues his agelong roadworthy to afloat fitness.

They are joined connected the club’s wounded array by the duo of Turkish guardant Ahmet Sivri and 18-year-old Moussa Kone, who some proceed their spells connected the sidelines.

Besiktas imaginable starting lineup:

Llach; Sazdagi, Agbadou, Uduokhai, Yilmaz: Ndidi; Cerny, Olaitan, Kokcu, Toure; Oh

Fatih Karagumruk imaginable starting lineup:

Grbic; Mladenovic, Lichnovsky, Biraschi, Esgaio; Elmaz, Kranevitter, Cukur; Serginho, Larsson, Kalayci

We say: Besiktas 2-0 Fatih Karagumruk

While Karagumruk volition beryllium looking to support their endurance hopes live with a triumph here, they person their enactment chopped retired against a Besiktas side, who person been rock-solid astatine location successful caller weeks.

Stanojevic’s men are statistically the worst broadside connected the roadworthy this season, having picked up conscionable 5 points from 15 distant matches, and we spot them struggling astatine the Tupras Stadium, wherever they person failed to sensation triumph since May 2021.

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