İSTANBUL. Kayserispor overcame İstanbul Başakşehir. İstanbul Başakşehir lost this match even if it was better in terms of ball possession (56%).

Krzysztof Piątek didn’t score a decisive penalty (90′). That would have allowed İstanbul Başakşehir to draw the match.​

The match was played at the Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu stadium in İstanbul on Monday and it started at 8:00 pm local time. The referee was Oğuzhan Çakır with the assistance of Hakan Yemişken and Bilal Gölen. The 4th official was Ayberk Demirbaş. The weather was overcast clouds. The temperature was cold at 8.52 degrees Celsius or 47.34 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 81%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

İstanbul Başakşehir was in firm control of the ball 56% while Kayserispor was struggling with a 44% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

İstanbul Başakşehir was more aggressive with 50 dangerous attacks and 19 shots of which 7 were on target. Anyway, Kayserispor was capable to find the solution to win this match.​

İstanbul Başakşehir shot 19 times, 7 on target, 8 off target. On the other side, Kayserispor shot 14 times, 7 on target, 4 off target.

Cards

İstanbul Başakşehir received 3 yellow cards (O. Kemen, Çagdas Atan and Krzysztof Piątek). Regarding the opposition, Kayserispor received 5 yellow cards (Gökhan Sazdağı, Hasan Ali Kaldırım, Burak Yılmaz, Duckens Nazon and Ali Karimi).

Standings

Next matches

In the next match in the Super Lig, İstanbul Başakşehir will play away against Gaziantep F.K. on the 25th of February with a 8-4 head to head record in favor of İstanbul Başakşehir (2 draws).

Kayserispor will host Ankaragücü on the 25th of February with a 9-9 head to head.

İstanbul Başakşehir – Formation

İstanbul Başakşehir adopted the mid-fielder-oriented line-up (4-1-4-1).

The manager Çagdas Atan decided to play with the following team: Volkan Babacan (6.4), O. Kemen (6.7), Ousseynou Ba (6.8), Jerome Opoku (6.8), Léo Dubois (6.7), Souza (6.3), Deniz Türüç (7.5), Mehdi Abeid (6.7), Berkay Özcan (6.8), João Figueiredo (7.1) and Krzysztof Piątek (6.7).

The home team had on the bench: Serdar Gürler (6.8), Danijel Aleksić, Davidson (7.5), Muhammed Şengezer, Philippe Keny (6.4), Mahmut Tekdemir, Emirhan Ilkhan (7.0), Hamza Güreler (7.9), Berkay Aydogmus and Batuhan Celik.

Substitutions

İstanbul Başakşehir made 5 changes: Mehdi Abeid for Emirhan Ilkhan (34′), Souza for Davidson (46′), Ousseynou Ba for Hamza Güreler (46′), João Figueiredo for Philippe Keny (78′) and Berkay Özcan for Serdar Gürler (86′).

Player of the match: Hamza Güreler​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for İstanbul Başakşehir was Hamza Güreler.

His rating is 7.9 with 1 goal, 22 passes (77% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 6 duels out of 7.

His performance was extraordinary also because he began the match from the bench before entering in the 46′.

Kayserispor – Formation

Also Kayserispor adopted the mid-fielder-oriented line-up (4-1-4-1).

Burak Yılmaz played with: Bilal Bayazıt (8.5), Gökhan Sazdağı (6.6), Julian Jeanvier  (7.1), Arif Kocaman (6.7), Lionel Carole (7.0), Mehdi Bourabia (6.8), Kartal Yılmaz (6.6), Ali Karimi (7.3), Aylton Boa Morte (7.3), Duckens Nazon (7.1) and Miguel Cardoso (7.8).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Onurcan Piri, Joseph Attamah, Dimitrios Kolovetsios  (6.4), Stéphane Bahoken , Eray Özbek, Carlos Mané, Ramazan Civelek (7.0), Otabek Shukurov (6.4), Hasan Ali Kaldırım (6.4) and Yaw Ackah.

Substitutions

Kayserispor made 4 changes: Duckens Nazon for Ramazan Civelek (73′), Ali Karimi for Otabek Shukurov (73′), Lionel Carole for Hasan Ali Kaldırım (78′) and Miguel Cardoso for Dimitrios Kolovetsios  (82′).

Player of the match: Bilal Bayazıt​

The most impressive player for Kayserispor was the goalkeeper: Bilal Bayazıt. His rating is 8.47. He saved 1 penalty. He performed 6 saves.

Results of the day

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

• Beşiktaş – Konyaspor – 2-0
• İstanbul Başakşehir – Kayserispor – 2-3