İSTANBUL. Samsunspor had a comfortable win over Eyüpspor. Samsunspor scored with Z. Yavru (14′), Douglas Tanque (66′), G. Laura (86′) and A. Sağat (90′). On the other side, S. Kurt (17′) scored for Eyüpspor. Eyüpspor was vastly better in terms of ball possession (63%).
The match was played at the Eyüp Stadı stadium in İstanbul on Sunday and it started at 4:00 pm local time. The referee was Gürcan Hasova who had the assistance of Abdülhamit Söyler and Serhat Sağır. The 4th official was Kutluhan Bilgiç. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 14.9 degrees Celsius or 58.77 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 58%.
Match Statistics
- ! 63 Ball Possession 37
Shots
- 5 Total 8
- 1 On Target 7
- 4 Off Target 1
- 0 Shots blocked 0
- 95 Attack 78
- 81 Dangerous attack 47
- 0 Ball safe 0
- 0 Penalties 1
- 5 Corners 2
Fouls
- 15 Total 16
- 4 Yellow Cards 0
- 0 Double Yellow 0
- 0 Red Card 0
Other
- 4 Substitutions 5
Ball possession
Eyüpspor was in firm control of the ball 63% while Samsunspor was struggling with a 37% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Eyüpspor had a more offensive attitude with 81 dangerous attacks and 5 shots of which 1 were on target. Nevertheless, Samsunspor was capable to find the solution to win this contest.
Eyüpspor shot 5 times, 1 on target, 4 off target. On the opposite side, Samsunspor shot 8 times, 7 on target, 1 off target.
Cards
Eyüpspor received 4 yellow cards (U. Demirok, H. Tekin, İ. Akdağ and Melih Kabasakal). On the opposite side, Samsunspor didn’t receive any yellow card.
Match Timeline
Standings
After this match, Eyüpspor will stay with 41 points to sit in the 1st place. On the other side, Samsunspor will have 38 points to hold in the 2nd place.
Next matches
In the next match in the 1. Lig, Eyüpspor will play away against Yeni Malatyaspor on the 29th of January with a 1-0 head to head record in favor of Eyüpspor (0 draws).
Samsunspor will host BB Erzurumspor on the 30th of January with a 2-0 head to head in favor of Samsunspor (3 draws).
Eyüpspor – Formation
Eyüpspor started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
The manager İbrahim Üzülmez decided to play with the following team: Harun Tekin, Uğur Demirok, Ömer Bayram, Luccas Claro dos Santos, İbrahim Akdağ, Mehmet Murat Uçar, Sinan Kurt, Melih Kabasakal, Mustafa Pektemek, Halil Akbunar and Okwuchukwu Francis Ezeh.
The home team had on the bench: Can Bayırkan, Buğra Çağlıyan, İbrahim Yılmaz, Berkan Emir, Arda Yumurtacı, Olivier Thill, Alpaslan Öztürk, Umut Bulut, Ahmet Özkaya and Cengiz Alp Köseer.
Substitutions
Eyüpspor made 4 changes: Mustafa Pektemek for İ. Yılmaz (64′), Mustafa Pektemek for Vincent Thill (65′), İ. Akdağ for U. Bulut (79′) and F. Ezeh for B. Emir (87′).
Samsunspor – Formation
Samsunspor started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).
Hüseyin Eroğlu played with: Jakub Szumski, Zeki Yavru, Alim Öztürk, Soner Gönül, Yunus Cift, Osman Çelik, Celil Yüksel, Ali Kaan Güneren, Douglas Willian da Silva Souza, Moryké Fofana and Gaetan Laura.
They had on the bench: Polat Yaldır, Cihan Kahraman, Yusuf Abdioğlu, Moussa Guel, António Manuel Fernandes Mendes, Ahmet Sagat and Aykut Özer.
Samsunspor could not rely on the presence of A. Sağat (injured).
Substitutions
Samsunspor made 5 changes: M. Fofana for Y. Abdioğlu (72′), C. Yüksel for C. Kahraman (79′), Douglas Tanque for A. Sağat (79′), G. Laura for Tómané (90′) and A. Güneren for P. Yaldır (90′).
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the 1. Lig.
- Eyüpspor – Samsunspor – 1-4
- Bodrumspor – Keçiörengücü – 1-2
- Adanaspor – Yeni Malatyaspor – 2-2