Eyupspor vs Caykur Rizespor - prediction, team news, lineups

Seeking to marque it 3 wins from 3 distant matches this season, Caykur Rizespor travel to the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium to look Eyupspor successful circular 5 of the Turkish Super Lig connected Saturday.

Ozhan Pulat’s men caput into the play disconnected the backmost of a disappointing decision against newly-promoted Corum, portion Rizespor were narrowly beaten by Alanyaspor connected location turf.

Match preview

After narrowly beating the driblet past season, erstwhile they finished conscionable 1 constituent supra the dotted line, it has been a pugnacious commencement to different league run for Eyupspor, who person managed conscionable 3 points from their opening 4 Super Lig games.

Another toothless show saw the Istanbul outfit suffer 3-0 against newly-promoted Corum past Sunday, with their deficiency of cutting borderline astatine the attacking extremity of the transportation erstwhile again proving costly astatine the Corum Sehir Stadium.

Alexandros Kyziridis and Andrei Borza netted successful a 21-minute spell to enactment the location broadside good connected people for their archetypal triumph of the run earlier Bosnian planetary Ermin Mahmic enactment the icing connected the barroom with an 88th-minute strike.

Eyupspor person present gone goalless successful defeats against Besiktas, Gaziantep and Corum crossed their archetypal 4 matches, with their lone triumph truthful acold coming connected August 30, erstwhile they edged retired Alanyaspor 2-1 courtesy of strikes from Ahmed Abdullahi and Zak Jules.

While Ozhan Pulat’s men volition beryllium looking to rapidly bounce backmost this weekend, lasting successful their mode is the situation of an opposing broadside who are unbeaten successful 5 of their astir caller six meetings, picking up 4 wins and 1 gully since October 2022.

On the different hand, portion Caykur Rizespor volition beryllium satisfied with what has been a coagulated commencement to the season, they person struggled for results astatine home, with the Black Sea Sparrowhawk falling to a 1-0 decision against Alanyaspor past Monday.

With thing to abstracted the 2 sides astatine the Caykur Didi Stadium, French defender Zakaria Ariss inadvertently turned the shot into his nett successful the 70th infinitesimal to acquisition Alanyaspor their 2nd triumph of the campaign.

Despite losing their 2 location matches this season, Recep Ucar’s men caput into the play with six points from their opening 4 games, having secured consecutive victories implicit Konyaspor and Gaziantep successful their 2 games connected the roadworthy truthful far.

Off the backmost of a historical 2025-26 campaign, wherever they finished 8th successful the Super Lig standings to grounds their astir palmy top-flight season, Caykur Rizespor volition purpose to support their upward trajectory and crook their breakthrough run into a level for further success.

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Team News

Eyupspor volition instrumentality to the transportation without the services of experienced midfielder Taskin Ilter, with the 32-year-old midfielder yet to diagnostic this play aft sustaining a musculus wounded backmost successful May.

New signing Abdelhamid Sabiri has missed the past 2 games since coming disconnected injured against Gaziantep connected August 23, and the Moroccan midfielder is simply a large uncertainty for this weekend’s matchup.

As for Caykur Rizespor, Uzbekistan defender Husniddin Aliqulov has been sidelined since January done a terrible genu wounded and the 27-year-old is retired of contention for the travel to the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium.

Despite the effect against Alanyaspor past clip out, Ucar could sanction a akin starting broadside this weekend, with Attila Mocsi and Modibo Sagnan forming the centre-back pairing, portion Taylan Antalyali, Qazim Laci and Ibrahim Olawoyin should clasp their roles astatine the bosom of the park.

Ali Sowe was progressive successful 12 league goals past season, netting 8 and mounting up 4 more, and the Gambian striker should spearhead the visitors’ onslaught erstwhile again, teaming up with Ahmed Kutucu and Emrecan Bulut successful the beforehand three.

Eyupspor imaginable starting lineup:

Moldovan; Ulvan, El Yamiq, Jules, Giordano; Matondo; Boutobba, Costa, Raux-Yao, Michalak; Abdullahi

Caykur Rizespor imaginable starting lineup:

Fofana; Pala, Mocsi, Sagnan, Ariss; Olawoyin, Laci, Antalyali; Kutucu, Bulut, Sowe

We say: Eyupspor 0-2 Caykur Rizespor

While Caykur Rizespor person struggled to enforce themselves astatine location this season, they volition gully encouragement from their distant form, having picked up 2 wins from their 2 games connected the roadworthy truthful far.

With Eyupspor yet to travel live successful onslaught and losing 3 of their archetypal 4 matches, the gulf successful prime and extent could beryllium decisive this weekend, with Ucar’s broadside coming distant with each 3 points.

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