Trabzonspor vs Gaziantep - prediction, team news, lineups

Trabzonspor volition look to widen their awesome tally of results erstwhile they invited Gaziantep to Papara Park connected Sunday successful the Turkish Super Lig.

The hosts boast a beardown grounds against Sunday's visitors, having avoided decision successful each 18 of their competitory meetings, signaling 12 wins and six draws.

Match preview

Trabzonspor person recovered their bushed nether Thomas Reis, with the Black Sea Storm winning their past six competitory matches, a tally that includes an awesome 4-0 triumph implicit Galatasaray, a 3-0 triumph against Besiktas and European successes against KuPS and Hearts.

The Trabzon broadside faced their toughest trial of this awesome tally past clip out, having to travel from 2 goals down to unafraid a thrilling 4-3 triumph implicit Caykur Rizespor, with Franculino Dju scoring doubly earlier the visitors completed the comeback.

Reis' broadside beryllium 3rd with 19 points from 9 matches, 3 down league leaders Galatasaray, and volition beryllium determined to support the unit astatine the apical by extending their unbeaten grounds successful this fixture.

The Black Sea Storm person besides been formidable astatine home, winning each 4 of their league matches astatine Papara Park this play and scoring 11 goals, portion keeping cleanable sheets successful their past 3 location outings, with Istanbul Basaksehir the lone broadside to people against them there, doing truthful successful a 2-1 triumph successful their opening location league fixture.

Anything different than decision would correspond a affirmative effect for Gaziantep, who volition anticipation to replicate their 1-1 gully connected their erstwhile sojourn to this ground, which ended a tally of six consecutive defeats there.

However, the outlook is little encouraging for the Falcons, who beryllium 15th with 8 points aft suffering 4 consecutive league defeats, leaving them with a hard task against 1 of the division's astir in-form sides.

Their latest setback came successful a 3-1 location decision to Erzurumspor, though they returned to winning ways successful the Turkish Cup connected Tuesday with a 4-0 triumph implicit lower-division broadside Etimesgut.

The Falcons volition anticipation that cupful occurrence provides the assurance to extremity their league losing streak, arsenic they hazard slipping into the bottommost three, sitting conscionable supra the relegation portion connected extremity difference.

One root of encouragement for the visitors is their distant record, with six of their 8 league points coming connected the road, wherever they person recorded 2 victories from 4 matches.

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Team News

Trabzonspor volition beryllium without Dju aft the guardant suffered a hamstring wounded successful the triumph implicit Rizespor, portion Arseniy Batagov, Ruslan Malinovskyi and Okay Yokuslu are besides expected to miss out.

Paul Onuachu is moving towards a instrumentality aft recovering from a musculus occupation and has resumed training, with the Nigerian striker perchance starring the onslaught if helium is deemed acceptable capable to start.

Stefan Savic has besides been reported arsenic a doubt, though his information is expected to beryllium assessed earlier the match.

Gaziantep volition beryllium without Myenty Abena done suspension, portion Nazim Sangare and Fuat Bavuk are sidelined with injuries.

Kacper Tobiasz, Ogun Ozcicek, Sontje Hansen, Ulrich Meleke, Arda Kizildag and Serdar Dursun person besides been listed among the unavailable players.

Trabzonspor imaginable starting lineup:

Onana; Pina, Nwaiwu, Savic, Eskihellac; Kabasakal, Fabinho; Salah, Muci, Simsir; Onuachu

Gaziantep imaginable starting lineup:

Dadakdeniz; Destici, Sankaya, Abena, Kulasin; Gidado, Gassama; Genc, Bacuna, Cihan; Stewart

We say: Trabzonspor 3-1 Gaziantep

Trabzonspor are successful fantabulous signifier and person sizeable attacking quality, portion their awesome location grounds makes them beardown favourites against a Gaziantep broadside that person struggled to incorporate opponents during their losing run.

The visitors whitethorn find a mode to get connected the scoresheet, but the hosts should person much than capable firepower to unafraid different victory.

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