Goztepe SK vs Antalyaspor - prediction, team news, lineups

Seeking to prime up their archetypal location triumph since January and determination wrong 4 points of the European qualifying places, Goztepe SK instrumentality connected Antalyaspor successful circular 31 of the Turkish Super Lig connected Saturday.

Having failed to triumph immoderate of their past 7 encounters, the Akrepler volition travel to the Gursel Aksel Stadium looking to get 1 implicit the location broadside and determination six points wide of the relegation zone.

Match preview

In what has been a disappointing illness astatine the concern extremity of the season, Goztepe dropped 2 much points successful their quest for Europe past Saturday erstwhile they were held to a 1-1 gully by 10-man Kocaelispor astatine the Yildiz Entegre Kocaeli Stadium.

With Kocaelispor midfielder Show receiving his marching orders successful the 77th minute, the visitors failed to marque the astir of their numerical advantage, with Serdar Dursun converting his 98th-minute punishment to cancel retired Janderson’s aboriginal opener and unit a stock of the spoils.

Goztepe person failed to triumph 9 of their astir caller 10 matches, losing 3 and claiming six draws, having picked up 7 wins and 2 draws from the 10 Super Lig games preceding this run.

Despite their caller woes, the Izmir outfit are successful the premix for European qualification, arsenic they beryllium sixth successful the Super Lig standings, level connected 48 points with fifth-placed Istanbul Basaksehir and 7 points disconnected fourth-placed Besiktas successful the Conference League qualifying spot.

Home comfortableness present awaits Stanimir Stoilov’s men, who are unbeaten successful 7 of their astir caller 8 league games astatine the Gursel Aksel Stadium, picking up 3 wins and 4 draws since December 21.

Goztepe volition fancy themselves to get the occupation done this play against an opposing broadside who person failed to triumph their past 7 meetings, including 3 defeats successful the 3 encounters since a goalless gully successful August 2024.

Over successful the south-west, Antalyaspor dropped 2 much points astatine the incorrect extremity of the array past Friday erstwhile they fell to a 2-0 location decision against Konyaspor astatine the New Antalya Stadium.

With thing to abstracted the 2 teams astatine fractional time, Diogo Goncalves broke the deadlock with a well-worked squad extremity successful the 57th infinitesimal earlier Melih Ibrahimoglu made definite of the effect with a 96th-minute strike.

Having mislaid 4-2 astatine Besiktas a fortnight ago, past weekend’s effect marked a 2nd consecutive decision for Antalyaspor, who person present failed to triumph 8 of their astir caller 9 matches — a tally which has enactment their 11-year spell successful the apical formation nether threat.

Sami Ugurlu’s men person picked up 7 wins and mislaid 7 of their 30 Super Lig games truthful acold to cod 28 points and beryllium 14th successful the standings, conscionable 3 points supra the relegation portion with 4 games to go.

While Antalyaspor volition beryllium looking to bounce backmost this weekend, results connected the roadworthy permission small country for optimism, having failed to sensation triumph successful immoderate of their past 10 outings connected the road, losing 7 and claiming 3 draws since the 2nd week of December.

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Team News

Goztepe stay without the Turkish duo of Izzet Malak and 23-year-old defender Erkam Komur, who person been suspended by the Turkish Football Federation implicit a betting scandal.

The trio of Heliton, Novatus Miroshi and Anthony Dennis volition service a one-game suspension aft crossing the yellow-card threshold with their bookings against Kocaelispor past clip out, giving Stoilov a caller enactment headache astatine the antiaircraft extremity of the pitch.

On the wounded front, Turkish defender Ogun Bayrak was forced disconnected injured midway done the archetypal fractional against Kocaelispor past clip out, and the 27-year-old is retired of contention for Goztepe, giving country for Arda Kurtulan to instrumentality to the XI.

Like the location side, Antalyaspor volition besides person to header without the services of Veysel Seri and Swiss midfielder Samuel Ballet, who are some suspended owed to accumulated yellowish cards.

Veteran midfielder Soner Dikmen was forced disconnected injured midway done the crippled against Konyaspor past clip retired and the 32-year-old is simply a large uncertainty for this weekend’s visitors.

Should helium neglect to shingle disconnected the injury, Gambian planetary Jesper Ceesay should get the nod, with Bunyamin Balci, Bahadir Ozturk, Lautaro Giannetti and Kenneth Paal forming the backmost 4 erstwhile again.

Goztepe SK imaginable starting lineup:

Lis; Godoi, Altikardes, Bokele, Kurtulan; Krastev, Mohammed, Cherni; Bekiroglu, Janderson, Santos

Antalyaspor imaginable starting lineup:

Julian; Paal, Giannetti, Ozturk, Balci; Ceesay; Sinik, Saric, Safuri, Omur; Van de Streek

We say: Goztepe SK 2-1 Antalyaspor

Both Goztepe and Antalyaspor could bash good with a triumph this weekend, with the hosts eyeing European qualification portion Ugurlu’s men are looking to propulsion wide of the information zone. While Stoilov’s broadside person struggled for results successful caller weeks, they are connected a ascendant streak against Antalyaspor, and with their location fans cheering them on, we are backing them to instrumentality to winning ways here.

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