İZMIR. Konyaspor overcomes Altay 1-0 after K. scored a penalty (68′).

C. Pinares received a red card (66′)​. This double yellow card was one of the reason why Altay lost the match.

The match was played at the Bornova Aziz Kocaoğlu Stadyumu stadium in İzmir on Sunday and it started at 4:00 pm local time. The referee was Abdulkadir Bitigen with the assistance of Candaş Elbil and Murat Ergin Gözütok. The 4th official was Adem Cinek. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was quite cold at 3.7 degrees Celsius or 38.64 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 44%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. Altay was in possession of the ball for 49% of the time vs. Konyaspor that controlled the ball for 51% of the time.

Attitude and shots

Altay had a more offensive attitude with 61 dangerous attacks and 7 shots of which 3 were on target. Anyhow, Konyaspor found a way to find the solution to win this match.​

Altay shot 7 times, 3 on target, 4 off target. Regarding the opposition, Konyaspor shot 12 times, 4 on target, 8 off target.

Cards

Altay received 3 yellow cards (C. Pinares, C. Gulselam and L. Kappel). On the opposite side, Konyaspor received 1 yellow card (I. Sehic).

C. Pinares (Altay) was sent off after receiving a second yellow card (66′).

Standings

After this match, Altay will stay with 18 points to hold in the 19th place. On the other side, Konyaspor will have 45 points to hold in the 2nd place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Super Lig, Altay will host Rizespor on the 11th of February with a 3-1 head to head in favor of Altay (2 draws).

Konyaspor will play away agasint Trabzonspor on the 13th of February with a 12-7 head to head statistic in favor of Trabzonspor (8 draws).

Altay – Formation

Altay adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

The manager Mustafa Denizli decided to play with the following team: Mateusz Lis (6.9), Tolga Ünlü (6.6), Eric Björkander (6.8), Murat Akça (7.8), Mohammad Naderi (7.4), Zeki Yildirim (6.8), Ceyhun Gülselam (6.3), Leandro Kappel (6.4), César Pinares (5.8), Martín Rodríguez (6.5) and Ahmed Yasser Rayan (6.3).

The home team had on the bench: Tugay Gündem, Marco Paixão, Deniz Kadah (6.8), Cem Ozgener, Özgür Özkaya, Cihan Topaloğlu, Daouda Karamoko Bamba (6.4), Eren Erdogan, Khaly Thiam (6.2) and Kâzımcan Karataş (6.8).

Substitutions

Altay made 6 changes: M. Rodriguez for K. Karatas (61′), Z. Yildirim for I. Thiam Khaly (61′), C. Gulselam for D. Kadah (73′), A. Y. Rayan for D. K. Bamba (73′), M. Akca for O. Ozkaya (90′) and M. Akca for O. Ozkaya (90′).

Best player: Murat Akça​

The most impressive player for Altay was Murat Akça.

His rating is (7.8) with 74 passes (81% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 10 duels out of 14.

Konyaspor – Formation

Also Konyaspor adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

İlhan Palut played with: Ibrahim Šehić (6.5), Barış Yardımcı (6.9), Adil Demirbağ (6.6), Abdulkerim Bardakçı (7.2), Guilherme Haubert Sityá (6.8), Soner Dikmen (7.1), Amir Hadžiahmetović (7.4), Konrad Michalak (6.4), Endri Çekiçi (6.5), Zymer Bytyqi (7.2) and Ahmed Hassan (7.6).

They had on the bench: Oğulcan Ülgün, Marin Aničić, Ahmet Karademir, Mehmet Erdogan, Hüseyin Biber, Musa Çağıran (7.1), Paul-José Mpoku (6.9), Erten Ersu and Nafican Yardimci.

Konyaspor could not rely on the presence of M. Cagiran (injured).

Substitutions

Konyaspor made 3 changes: A. Demirbag for M. Cagiran (29′), E. Cekici for P. Mpoku (64′) and B. Yardimci for O. Ulgun (90′).

Best player: Ahmed Hassan​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Konyaspor was Ahmed Hassan.

His rating is (7.6) with 1 goal, 21 passes (76% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 3 duels out of 8.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Super Lig.​

• Galatasaray – Trabzonspor – 1-2
• Antalyaspor – Gaziantep F.K. – 0-0
• Giresunspor – Alanyaspor – 1-3
• Kasımpaşa – Kayserispor – 3-1
• Altay – Konyaspor – 0-1
• Hatayspor – Rizespor – 0-0