Gaziantep vs Kasimpasa - prediction, team news, lineups

Gaziantep volition beryllium hopeless to halt their alarming descent erstwhile they invited Kasimpasa to Gaziantep Stadyumu connected Friday successful the Turkish Super Lig.

The hosts person mislaid 5 consecutive league matches and are hovering conscionable supra the relegation portion with 8 points from their opening 10 fixtures, portion their visitors inhabit 5th spot with 17 points and get unbeaten successful their past 3 league outings.

Match preview

Gaziantep person endured a miserable spell successful the league, with their latest setback coming successful a 2-0 decision distant to Trabzonspor.

Orhan Ak's broadside struggled to marque an interaction against the Black Sea outfit, conceding erstwhile successful each fractional arsenic they suffered different damaging effect pursuing defeats against Erzurumspor, Istanbul Basaksehir, Corum and Kocaelispor.

Their 4-0 Turkish Cup triumph implicit Etimesgutspor provided immoderate relief, but that effect has done small to disguise their home difficulties, peculiarly arsenic they person scored conscionable doubly crossed their past 5 league matches portion conceding 12 goals.

The deficiency of attacking output is becoming a important interest for Ak, whose squad person struggled to crook possession into meaningful opportunities and person repeatedly recovered themselves chasing matches aft falling behind.

Gaziantep person besides struggled to found Gaziantep Stadyumu arsenic a root of points, failing to triumph immoderate crippled arsenic hosts yet, drafting 2 and losing 3 times successful 5 location matches.

However, the Falcons are unbeaten successful their past 5 meetings with the Apaches, picking up 3 wins and 2 draws, portion they person besides avoided decision successful their past 3 encounters against them arsenic hosts, winning doubly and drafting once.

Kasimpasa, meanwhile, person enjoyed a considerably much encouraging opening to the campaign, losing conscionable 1 of their 10 league games truthful acold portion signaling 4 wins and 5 draws.

Emre Belozoglu's squad were held to an entertaining 2-2 gully by Besiktas successful their erstwhile league outing, with Claudio Winck and Michael Rafferty uncovering the nett arsenic they doubly threatened to instrumentality each 3 points.

That effect extended their unbeaten league series to 3 matches, pursuing victories implicit Eyupspor and Samsunspor, portion they besides recorded a 3-1 triumph implicit Corluspor successful the Turkish Cup, extending their unbeaten tally crossed each competitions to 4 matches.

Kasimpasa person besides collected utile points connected their travels this season, signaling 10 points from 5 distant games, with 3 wins, 1 gully and 1 defeat, which should springiness them optimism up of this trip.

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Team News

Gaziantep person respective availability concerns up of Friday's encounter, with Myenty Abena facing suspension pursuing a yellow-card accumulation, portion Ulrich Meleke, Ogun Ozcicek, Arda Kizildag and Sontje Hansen are among those carrying injuries.

Serdar Dursun is besides expected to miss out, portion Nazim Sangare and Fuat Bavuk stay unavailable.

Kasimpasa person less confirmed concerns, though Kamil Ahmet Corekci is expected to stay sidelined with an Achilles tendon injury.

Godfried Frimpong and Kevin Mouanga are besides carrying fittingness problems, leaving the visitors perchance abbreviated of antiaircraft options, portion nary further suspensions person been reported.

Adrian Benedyczak has scored six goals successful the league this season, and helium volition beryllium the antheral to ticker for the Apaches successful this encounter.

Gaziantep imaginable starting lineup:

Dadakdeniz; Perez, Abena, Sylla, Calhanoglu; Bacuna; Sorescu, Gidado, Maxim, Kozlowski; Stewart

Kasimpasa imaginable starting lineup:

Gianniotis; Jensen, Ilie, Arous, Winck; Demirbay, Mendes; Hajradinovic, Rak-Sakyi, Kol; Benedyczak

We say: Gaziantep 1-2 Kasimpasa

Gaziantep's location vantage and humanities grounds successful this fixture could marque Friday's brushwood much competitory than the league standings suggest, but their existent antiaircraft problems are hard to overlook.

Kasimpasa person shown considerably much attacking consistency, and their caller signifier should yet spot them assertion each 3 points.

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