Kasimpasa vs Kocaelispor - prediction, team news, lineups

Kasimpasa tin determination wide of the relegation portion if they tin gain 3 points from their fixture with Kocaelispor connected Sunday.

At a clip erstwhile the location broadside beryllium successful 13th presumption successful the Super Lig table, Kocaelispor are successful 11th spot and pushing for a top-half finish.

Match preview

Sitting 3 points wide of the relegation portion with 3 games left, galore associated with Kasimpasa volition beryllium tense astir dropping down to the 2nd tier.

However, Emre Belozoglu's squad person accumulated 10 of their 31 points this play from their past six matches.

Their 2 defeats during that play person travel distant astatine top-five clubs Besiktas and Istanbul Basaksehir, the second fixture ending successful a 4-0 loss.

At the Recap Tayyip Erdogan Stadium, it has been a antithetic story, with 3 successive victories being posted.

Most notably, Kasimpasa person kept cleanable sheets successful their wins implicit Eyupspor, Kayserispor and Alanyaspor respectively.

Meanwhile, Kocaelispor person each but assured endurance successful their archetypal play backmost successful Turkey's apical formation since 2008-09.

Despite going six Super Lig fixtures without a win, the hard enactment has already been done, adjacent with the Gulf netting conscionable 25 times successful 31 games.

Four matches person passed by without much than 2 goals being netted successful a Kocaelispor fixture, emphasising that their antiaircraft grounds (35 goals conceded) has proven decisive successful apt keeping the nine successful the division.

Although Kocaelispor person lone earned 3 wins from 15 distant fixtures, they person accumulated 7 points from their past six specified encounters.

Selcuk Inan's broadside person scored conscionable 10 goals from 15 distant league fixtures successful 2025-26.

Kasimpasa Turkish Super Lig form:

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Kocaelispor Turkish Super Lig form:

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Team News

Kasimpasa volition marque a alteration successful defence with Rodrigo Becau suspended owed to the reddish paper that helium received successful the decision astatine Istanbul Basaksehir.

Nicholas Opuku is successful enactment to regenerate him astatine centre-back, portion Andri Baldursson is besides missing owed to accumulating 8 yellowish cards.

Kerem Demirbay could driblet into a deeper midfield role, allowing Kubilay Kanatsizkus to diagnostic successful the last third.

Mahamadou Susoho and Serdar Dursun are some options to beryllium recalled to the Kocaelispor XI.

If they are provided with opportunities, Karol Linetty and Rigoberto Rivas could driblet down to the substitutes' bench.

Top goalscorer Bruno Petkovic has missed the past 2 matches with a hamstring injury.

Kasimpasa imaginable starting lineup:

Gianniotis; Winck, Opuku, Arous, Frimpong; Cafu, Demirbay; Kahveci, Kanatsizkus, Diabate; Benedyczak

Kocaelispor imaginable starting lineup:

Oztasdelen; Oguz, Dijksteel, Smolcic, Haidara; Bingol, Susoho, Keita; Agyei, Dursun, Nonge

We say: Kasimpasa 1-1 Kocaelispor

Despite the quality successful league positions, it is Kasimpasa who are successful amended signifier and volition fancy their chances of earning maximum points. However, the visitors whitethorn bash capable to unafraid a stock of the spoils successful a low-scoring match.

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