Besiktas vs Konyaspor

Currently in the Turkish Super Lig, Galatasaray is five points ahead of Besiktas moving into Sunday’s gameweek eight match against Konyaspor at Tupras Stadium.

Since Gala was to be playing a day earlier, potentially the Black Eagles could be nine points adrift by the time they are on the pitch confronting a team that most people firmly believed should be vanquished by the Blacks.

The international break in early October came as a bath for Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Besiktas that prior to the break the latter has not registered any victory in recent games.

Besiktas and Fenerbahce were eliminated by Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League and the Turkish giants lost 3-1 to follow a 1-1 stalemate against Gaziantep side that are currently in the relegation zone.

After losing 0-4 to Ajax on September 26, the Black Eagles are winless in the last four games in their continent, but they had a 3-0 victory against Kayserispor before the month ended.

Despite the 2024-25 losses having been in Europe, the team remains unbeaten in the Super Lig with five wins from seven matches, but the two draws have occurred in the last four after beginning with three straight wins.

The hosts triumphed in the same fixture last season with a 2-0 victory against this Sunday’s rival and come into the current gameweek, eager to secure as many points as possible in view of chalking a fourth straight league victory on their home ground.

Such outcome is rather expected since Konyaspor was initially quite successful with 2-2-3 performance during the beginning of the campaign.

Still, men of Ali Camdali have proved that they are capable of playing close to the vest; they have achieved three consecutive goalless stalemates in the games against the Kayserispor and Sivasspor and home Triumph over Samsunspor.
That was success before a 3-2 defeat at Trabzonspor but a 2-1 home win against Eyupspor in the final match before the international break put the Anatolian Eagle in eighth place.

Necip Uysal, a long-term absence with a knee injury, is still out, and goalie Ersin Destanoglu is unlikely to play in the starting lineup.

With two game-winning goals, which is a league-high total, Ciro Immobile hopes to increase his tally of seven goals this coming weekend.

Camdali, the Konyaspor manager, has choices for the game because he has a full roster to select from.

Pedrinho's impact at the eighth-placed team is evident as he has scored three of the away team's ten goals this season and assisted on another.

But Sunday will be a different challenge for Camdali's club, whose last victory over Besiktas was at home almost three years ago, 1-0.
In their previous match, Besiktas and the opposition drew 1-1. This occurred while traveling against Gaziantep at Gaziantep Stadium. Ciro Immobile scored the goal for the Black Eagles, who had the ball for 58% of the game and had three attempts on goal.

In their previous match, Konyaspor defeated Eyupspor 2-1 at Konya Buyuksehir Stadyumu. With 42% of the play and six attempts on goal, Serkan Albayrak's squad had goals from Yusuf Erdogan and Danijel Aleksic.

Besiktas has declared victory against Konya in their past two meetings.

The score at Tupras Stadium was 2-0, and the score at Konya Buyuksehir Stadium was 2-0. There have been two ties in the last ten head-to-head matches. Konya has won two games while Besiktas has won six.