Konyaspor vs Istanbul Basaksehir - prediction, team news, lineups

Konyaspor volition look to widen their unbeaten streak erstwhile they invited Istanbul Basaksehir to the Konya Buyuksehir Belediye Stadium successful the Turkish Super Lig on Sunday.

The hosts made a mediocre commencement to the season, but things were opening to amended earlier the planetary break, with 4 points collected from their past 2 matches, portion the visitors besides managed to enactment an extremity to their mediocre tally conscionable earlier the break.

Match preview

Konyaspor person collected 4 points from their opening six league matches aft failing to prime up a constituent successful their archetypal 4 fixtures.

The Anatolian Eagle kicked disconnected their run with a 1-0 location decision against Caykur Rizespor earlier travelling to Fenerbahce for a 4-2 loss, and those results were followed by a 2-1 location decision against Kocaelispor and a 1-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Erzurumspor.

Things were already looking bleak for Ilhan Palut's team, but they breathed immoderate beingness into their play with a 1-0 location triumph implicit Trabzonspor earlier signaling a goalless gully astatine Kasimpasa successful their astir caller league outing.

Palut's squad stay successful information of slipping into the bottommost three, sitting conscionable extracurricular the relegation portion connected extremity quality up of Samsunspor, who besides person 4 points.

The Anatolian outfit stretched their legs during the interruption with a 2-2 affable gully against Palestine and volition present anticipation to transportation that momentum into their clash with Basaksehir, whom they person beaten successful their past 2 location meetings.

The triumph implicit Trabzonspor showed that Konyaspor tin marque location vantage number against beardown opposition, and that is the effect they volition look to physique connected contempt losing their opening 2 location games.

Basaksehir volition anticipation to subordinate the caller inclination successful this fixture, which has favoured the location side, with each squad signaling 2 wins successful their past 4 meetings.

The run has besides been uneven for the Grey Owls, who went 4 games without a triumph aft their opening-day 2-0 triumph implicit Kocaelispor.

Nuri Sahin's broadside subsequently mislaid to Trabzonspor (2-1), Galatasaray (3-2) and Amed SK (5-0), picking up conscionable 1 constituent from a 1-1 gully with Kasimpasa during that run.

However, they successfully halted their mediocre streak by thrashing Genclerbirligi 4-0, with Eldor Shomurodov scoring twice, portion Davie Selke and Andreas Skov Olsen were besides connected the scoresheet.

The occupation for Basaksehir heading into Sunday's crippled volition beryllium their mediocre distant form, having mislaid their past 3 matches connected the road, including 1 successful Europe, portion conceding 9 goals and scoring conscionable erstwhile during that run.

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Team News

Konyaspor person nary reported wounded absences up of this clash, leaving Palut with an array of options to take from connected Sunday.

One of the hosts' main problems has been their deficiency of goals, with the squad scoring conscionable 4 successful six matches, but Jackson Muleka volition anticipation to unfastened his relationship for the play and assistance code that contented arsenic helium leads the line.

Deniz Turuc has scored erstwhile truthful acold and volition anticipation to supply immoderate attacking inspiration, portion Diogo Goncalves volition besides look to lend successful his originative role.

Basaksehir's main wounded interest is Edin Visca, who is yet to retrieve from an wounded sustained successful August.

Shomurodov is the main attacking threat, having already scored six league goals, and volition look to marque the difference, portion Selke is expected to pb the line.

Konyaspor imaginable starting lineup:

Gungordu; Yazgili, Baniya, Demirbag, Masuaku; Jevtovic, Ibrahimoglu; Turuc, Goncalves, Toth; Muleka

Istanbul Basaksehir imaginable starting lineup:

Sengezer; Kharebashvili, Bayram, Opoku, Karbownik; Kemen, Gunes; Skov Olsen, Brnic, Shomurodov; Selke

We say: Konyaspor 1-1 Istanbul Basaksehir

Konyaspor's location triumph implicit Trabzonspor shows they tin vie with beardown opponents, peculiarly against a Basaksehir broadside that has struggled connected the road.

However, the visitors' attacking menace should assistance them prime up thing from this encounter, adjacent if they person to settee for a draw.

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