ANKARA. Gençlerbirliği and Çorum Belediyespor didn’t manage to score any goal on Sunday. Gençlerbirliği was not able to win even if it was better in terms of ball possession (57%).

The match was played at the Eryaman Stadyumu stadium in Ankara on Sunday and it started at 4:00 pm local time. The referee was Yiğit Arslan with the collaboration of Oğuz Terzi and Selahattin Altay. The 4th official was Mustafa Hakan Belder. The weather was overcast clouds. The temperature was quite cold at 3.74 degrees Celsius or 38.73 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 69%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Gençlerbirliği had a strong ball possession 57% while Çorum Belediyespor was struggling with a 43% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Çorum Belediyespor was more pushing with 71 dangerous attacks and 16 shots of which 6 were on target. Notwithstanding, that was not enough Çorum Belediyespor to win the match​.

Gençlerbirliği shot 11 times, 5 on target, 5 off target. On the other side, Çorum Belediyespor shot 16 times, 6 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

Gençlerbirliği received 2 yellow cards (Ensar Kemaloğlu and Yasin Güreler). Regarding the opposition, Çorum Belediyespor received 1 yellow card (Ferhat Yazgan).

Standings

After this encounter, Gençlerbirliği has 32 points like Boluspor to sit in the 8th place. Talking about the opposition, Çorum Belediyespor will has 35 points to sit in the 6th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the 1. Lig, Gençlerbirliği will play away against Eyüpspor on the 10th of February with a 4-1 head to head record in favor of Eyüpspor (0 draws).

Çorum Belediyespor will host Ümraniyespor on the 10th of February with a 1-0 head to head stats in favor of Çorum Belediyespor (0 draws).

Gençlerbirliği – Formation

Gençlerbirliği started with a 3-1-4-2 line-up (3-1-4-2).

The manager Sinan Kaloglu decided to play with the following team: Orkun Ozdemir (8.1), Francis Nzaba (7.1), Alperen Babacan (7.5), Yasin Güreler (7.1), Ensar Kemaloğlu (6.7), Oğuzhan Berber (7.0), Jimmy Durmaz (6.7), Aias Aosman, Olarenwaju Kayode (6.6), Mustapha Yatabaré (7.1) and Amilton da Silva (6.7).

The home team had on the bench: Osman Ertuğrul Çetin, Shaocong Wu, Buğra Çağıran (7.5), Halit Yılmaz, Yigit Efe Demir, Musa Cagiran (7.0), Özgür Çek, Oltan Karakullukçu (6.7), Chukwuma Akabueze (7.1) and Melih Bostan.

Gençlerbirliği could not rely on the presence of Buğra Çağıran (injured).

Substitutions

Gençlerbirliği made 4 changes: Ensar Kemaloğlu for Oltan Karakullukçu (72′), Olarenwaju Kayode for Chukwuma Akabueze (82′), Jimmy Durmaz for Musa Cagiran (82′) and Aias Aosman for Buğra Çağıran (7′).

Player of the match: Orkun Ozdemir​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Gençlerbirliği was the goalkeeper: Orkun Ozdemir. His rating is 8.06. He performed 6 saves.

Çorum Belediyespor – Formation

Çorum Belediyespor started with a mid-fielder-oriented line-up (4-1-4-1).

Serkan Özbalta played with: Hasan Huseyin Akinay (7.7), Kerem Kalafat (7.8), Michael Ologo (7.3), Zargo Touré (7.1), Erkan Kaş (8.7), Ferhat Yazgan (6.4), Ahmet İlhan Özek (6.8), Michał Nalepa (7.1), Atakan Akkaynak (6.4), Geraldo (7.7) and Ahmet Sağat (7.0).

These were the players on the bench: Thomas Verheydt, Gökhan Karadeniz, Suat Kaya, Eren Aydın (6.6), Hakan Barış (6.8), Adem Doğan, Ozan Sol (6.6), Süleyman Luş, Sadik Arda Yilmazturk and Ali Turkan.

Substitutions

Çorum Belediyespor made 4 changes: Michał Nalepa for Adem Doğan (90′), Ahmet Sağat for Hakan Barış (77′), Geraldo for Ozan Sol (88′) and Ahmet İlhan Özek for Eren Aydın (77′).

Player of the match: Erkan Kaş​

The most impressive player for Çorum Belediyespor was Erkan Kaş.

His rating is 8.7 with 36 passes (92% accurate) and 4 key passes. He won 12 duels out of 15. He performed 3 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the 1. Lig.​

• Tuzlaspor – Manisa BBSK – 2-1
• Gençlerbirliği – Çorum Belediyespor – 0-0
• BB Erzurumspor – Şanlıurfaspor – 2-0
• Giresunspor – Eyüpspor – 0-0