Besiktas vs Fenerbahce - prediction, team news, lineups

Derby play successful the Turkish Super Lig brings 1 of the country’s fiercest rivalries backmost to the spotlight, arsenic Besiktas and Fenerbahce look disconnected astatine Tupras Stadium connected Sunday evening. 

It is 3rd versus 4th connected the table, with conscionable 5 points separating the 2 Istanbul giants aft 10 matches.

Match preview

Besiktas’ play truthful acold has been a communicative of inconsistency, with the Black Eagles having lone managed to triumph back-to-back league games once.

Sergen Yalcin’s broadside dropped much points past play successful a frustrating 1-1 gully distant astatine Kasimpasa, arsenic Tammy Abraham missed a first-half punishment that could person doubled their lead, and the hosts equalised conscionable a infinitesimal later.

The unit is mounting from supporters, but this derby represents a accidental for redemption, and the Besiktas committee person reportedly promised the players a peculiar bonus if they tin unafraid triumph implicit their arch-rivals.

History is connected their broadside astatine Tupras Stadium – since moving determination successful 2016, the Black Eagles person mislaid lone erstwhile successful 9 location derbies against Fenerbahce (3W, 5D, 1L). 

However, subject could beryllium decisive, arsenic Besiktas players person received 22 of the 34 reddish cards shown successful the past 50 meetings betwixt the sides, including 3 successful the past 5 encounters.

The opening extremity could beryllium vital, arsenic successful the past 41 derbies, the squad scoring archetypal has lone mislaid 4 times, and the location broadside person done truthful 16 times, winning fractional of those games and drafting 7 (1L).

Fenerbahce, meanwhile, get successful beardown form, with Domenico Tedesco’s squad unbeaten successful their past six matches successful each competitions (4W, 2D), including a three-game winning streak successful the league — their longest since February. 

Last weekend’s 4-0 thrashing of Gaziantep underlined their attacking quality, and triumph present could determination them supra Trabzonspor, who volition marque the travel to look Galatasaray this weekend.

However, Fenerbahce person won lone 2 of their past 10 league meetings with Besiktas and person not beaten the Black Eagles distant from location since 2021. 

They volition beryllium anxious to extremity different unwanted record, arsenic nary overseas Fenerbahce manager has won a “big three” derby successful the past 10 attempts, dating backmost to Vitor Pereira’s reign.

Besiktas Turkish Super Lig form:

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Team News

For Besiktas, Ege Tiknaz remains sidelined with a genu injury, portion Rafa Silva has recovered from a sound and should instrumentality to the starting XI. 

Ersin Destanoglu is expected to enactment successful extremity up of Mert Gunok, and Cengiz Under, who scored against Kasimpasa, volition again beryllium a cardinal menace from the close wing. 

Former Chelsea striker Abraham leads the onslaught and volition purpose to bounce backmost aft past week’s missed penalty.

Fenerbahce stay without Cenk Tosun, Irfan Can Kahveci, and Mert Hakan Yandas, but John Duran is backmost successful grooming and could feature. 

The attacking concern of Youssef En-Nesyri and Anderson Talisca has been deadly, combining for 11 of the team’s 18 league goals truthful far, with some bagging braces successful the triumph implicit Gaziantep.

The Yellow Canaries person not conceded a extremity successful their past 4 matches crossed each competitions, and the center-back pairing of Milan Skriniar and Jayden Oosterwolde volition look to support different cleanable sheet.

Besiktas imaginable starting lineup:

Destanoglu; Sazdagi, Topku, Djalo, Yilmaz; Kokcu, Ndidi; Rashica, R Silva, Under; Abraham

Fenerbahce imaginable starting lineup:

Ederson; Semedo, Skriniar, Oosterwolde, Brown; Asensio, Alvarez, Yuksek; Nene, En-Nesyri, Akturkoglu

We say: Besiktas 2-2 Fenerbahce

This clash promises intensity, goals, and emotion arsenic some sides look to marque a statement, but not overmuch has been betwixt them truthful acold successful this campaign.

Fenerbahce person recovered bushed successful caller weeks, but Besiktas’ location grounds and tendency to triumph backmost their fans marque them unsafe opponents, but we are backing a gully here.

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