Eyupspor vs Gaziantep - prediction, team news, lineups

Eyupspor big Gaziantep astatine Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadyumu connected Sunday successful the 2nd circular of the Turkish Super Lig season, with some sides looking for their archetypal triumph of the caller campaign.

Ozhan Pulat's men began with a constrictive decision astatine Besiktas, portion the visitors were held to a 1-1 gully by Alanyaspor successful their opening fixture.

Match preview

Eyupspor were beaten 1-0 by Besiktas connected the opening weekend, with Vaclav Cerny scoring the lone extremity of the crippled successful the archetypal half.

The scoreline was respectable for Pulat's side, who were reduced to 10 men successful the 2nd half, but the underlying numbers highlighted however hard they recovered it to endanger their opponents, with the Eyup broadside managing conscionable 1 changeable connected people from 4 attempts passim the match.

That attacking weakness was 1 of the main problems during their disappointing 2025-26 campaign, erstwhile Eyupspor finished 15th with 33 points from 34 matches, scoring conscionable 33 goals, with lone 3 teams uncovering the nett less times crossed the season.

Their location grounds was likewise underwhelming, arsenic 5 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats near them with conscionable 19 points connected location soil, the lowest tally recorded by immoderate squad successful the division.

Eyupspor tin nevertheless instrumentality assurance from their caller grounds against the visitors, having won 3 of the 4 competitory meetings betwixt the sides, including some encounters past season, picking up a 2-1 triumph distant from location successful November followed by an emphatic 3-0 triumph successful April.

Gaziantep, meanwhile, began their run with a 1-1 gully astatine location to Alanyaspor, with Deian Sorescu equalising aft Ruan had fixed the visitors the lead.

The Falcons enjoyed the greater stock of possession and territory, controlling 61% of the shot and attempting 13 shots compared with Alanyaspor's 11; however, that dominance did not construe into a important vantage successful accidental quality, signaling 1.28 expected goals compared with 1.25 for their opponents.

The visitors volition anticipation their inability to crook possession into wide chances does not beryllium costly again, peculiarly fixed their mediocre grounds astatine this ground, having mislaid some of their erstwhile visits to Eyupspor, conceding 3 goals connected each juncture portion failing to people successful their astir caller meeting.

Their wide distant grounds from past play besides offers country for improvement, having mislaid 8 of their 17 distant matches, winning conscionable 4 times – they volition beryllium hoping for a stronger showing connected the roadworthy this term.

Eyupspor Turkish Super Lig form:

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Team News

Eyupspor volition beryllium without David Costa, who is suspended aft receiving a reddish paper successful the decision to Besiktas, making him the hosts' lone confirmed absentee.

Pulat is different expected to clasp the basal operation utilized past weekend, with Ahmed Abdullahi apt to pb the enactment again arsenic the hosts look for greater attacking threat.

Gaziantep person nary suspension concerns heading into the lucifer but stay without Badou Ndiaye, who is continuing his betterment from an wounded suffered past season.

The visitors are expected to enactment up successful a 3-4-2-1 formation, with Drissa Camara and Kacper Kozlowski operating down the cardinal striker, with summertime signing Trivante Stewart starring the attack.

Eyupspor imaginable starting lineup:

Moldovan; Calegari, El Yamiq, Jules, Ulvan; Taskin; Pinta, Sabiri, Raux Yao, Pintor; Abdullahi

Gaziantep imaginable starting lineup:

Tobiasz; Meleke, Abena, Perez; Sorescu, Maxim, Gidado, Stefan; Camara, Kozlowski; Stewart

We say: Eyupspor 1-1 Gaziantep

We expect a tighter contention than the 3-0 gathering betwixt these sides successful April, with Eyupspor apt to beryllium deeper portion Gaziantep spot much of the ball. 

Neither broadside has shown capable attacking consistency to suggest a high-scoring encounter, making a gully the astir apt result astatine Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadyumu.

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