Besiktas vs Konyaspor - prediction, team news, lineups

Besiktas volition invited Konyaspor to Tupras Stadium connected Tuesday successful the Turkish Cup semi-final, with some sides eyeing a spot successful the last and a realistic changeable astatine silverware to headdress their seasons.

The hosts are looking to scope the last for the 2nd clip successful 3 years, portion the visitors get with momentum and content arsenic they purpose to marque their archetypal quality successful the showpiece since their 2016-17 triumph.

Match preview

Besiktas travel into this brushwood determined to instrumentality to the last aft lifting the trophy successful 2023-24, with the Turkish Cup representing their astir realistic way to silverware this season.

The Black Eagles entered the contention astatine the radical signifier arsenic 1 of the seeded sides, finishing apical of Group C up of Fenerbahce, which earned them a quarter-final clash with Alanyaspor — a necktie they navigated comfortably with a 3-0 victory.

Sergen Yalcin’s broadside caput into Tuesday’s clash successful dependable form, having followed that cupful occurrence with a gully against Fatih Karagumruk and a 2-0 league triumph implicit Gaziantep, results that helped unafraid European qualification.

With that nonsubjective achieved, their afloat absorption present shifts to the cup, and they volition look to harness the vigor of their location assemblage to asseverate power against a broadside they person beaten successful their past 2 meetings.

Historically, Besiktas person held the precocious manus successful this fixture, losing conscionable erstwhile successful their past 10 encounters with Konyaspor, including a 2-0 triumph the past clip the 2 sides met successful this contention astatine the quarter-final signifier successful 2024.

However, Konyaspor volition gully assurance from their ain past successful the tourney — notably a 1-0 triumph implicit Besiktas en way to their lone Turkish Cup triumph astir a decennary ago.

Unlike their much illustrious opponents, Ilhan Palut’s broadside began their cupful travel successful the 3rd round, beating Bingolspor 4-2 earlier dispatching Mus Spor Kulubu 4-1 successful the 4th circular to scope the radical stage.

They went connected to decorativeness 2nd successful Group B, mounting up a quarter-final necktie against Fenerbahce, wherever they produced a disciplined show to unafraid a 1-0 triumph aft other clip and publication their spot successful this semi-final.

Konyaspor’s nine-match unbeaten tally crossed each competitions came to an extremity with a 3-2 league decision to Caykur Rizespor on Friday, but with their league presumption unafraid successful mid-table, they tin afloat perpetrate to this cupful run.

Having already shown they tin upset stronger opposition, the visitors volition judge different connection effect is wrong scope arsenic they pursuit a instrumentality to the final.

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Team News

Besiktas are expected to beryllium without respective players owed to wounded concerns, with Kartal Yilmaz ruled retired with a torn ankle ligament, portion Milot Rashica remains a uncertainty aft missing the past match.

Gokhan Sazdagi is besides acceptable to enactment sidelined, and Necip Uysal remains doubtful, having not featured since September.

Several cardinal players who started connected the seat successful the past league crippled are expected to instrumentality to the starting lineup, portion Tiago Djalo is backmost successful contention aft antecedently serving a club-imposed suspension.

Konyaspor, meanwhile, volition beryllium without Josip Calusic, Guilherme Sitya and Alassane Ndao, each of whom are suspended for non-footballing reasons.

In presumption of injuries, Ufuk Akyol and Blaz Kramer are sidelined with genu problems, Tunahan Tasci remains unavailable, and Riechedly Bazoer is simply a uncertainty aft picking up an wounded successful the past match.

Besiktas imaginable starting lineup:

Destanoglu; Bulut, Agbadou, Topcu, Ozcan; Ndidi; Rashica, Olaitan, Kokcu, Toure; Oh

Konyaspor imaginable starting lineup:

Ertas; Yazgili, Nagalo, Demirbag, Andzouana; Ibrahimoglu, Jevtovic; Turuc, Bardhi, Olaigbe; Muleka

We say: Besiktas 2-1 Konyaspor

Besiktas’ location vantage and superior idiosyncratic prime could springiness them the borderline successful what is apt to beryllium a tightly contested semi-final.

Konyaspor person the operation and subject to marque this difficult, but if the hosts tin enforce themselves aboriginal and debar antiaircraft lapses, they should person capable to borderline done and unafraid a spot successful the final.
 

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