Beşiktaş host Konyaspor in the final week of the Spor Toto Super League.
STATUS: Vodafone Park
JUDGE: Umit Öztürk
HOUR: 8:00 pm
BROADCAST: beIN Sport 1
BESIKTAS: Mert, Rosier, Welinton, Omar Colley, Umut Meraş, Hadziahmetovic, Salih, Gedson, Muleka, Cenk, Aboubakar
RESERVES: Emre, Atiba, Kerem, Necip, Berkay, Semih, Maxim, Demir Ege, Aytuğ, Tayfur
TECHNICALLY DIRECTOR: Senol Gunes
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KONYASPOR: Sehic, Ahmet, Adil, Uğurcan, Guilherme, Soner, Oğulcan, Marlos, Konrad Michalak, Pozuelo, Mame Diouf
RESERVES: Erhan, Metehan, Yasir, Pavicic, Muric, Mahir, Kahraman, Niko, Atabek, Mehmet Ali
TECHNICALLY DIRECTOR: Aleksandar Stanojevic
With 23 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses in the remaining part of the Super League, Beşiktaş started last week in 3rd place with 77 points. If the Black and Whites beat Konyaspor, they will finish the league in second place, ahead of Fenerbahçe, where they are superior on two goals.
Fenerbahçe, level on points with Beşiktaş, are declared winners following Gaziantep FK’s withdrawal from the league last week.
Arabam.com Konyaspor, on the other hand, sits in 7th place with 50 points, having won 12 of their matches, drawn 14 and lost 9 of them.
6 MISSING IN BEŞİKTAŞ
In the black and white, Romain Saiss, Onur Bulut, Rachid Ghezzal, Nathan Redmond and Alexandru Maxim are injured. Arthur Masuaku from Beşiktaş will not be able to play against Konyaspor due to a yellow penalty.
SELECTED NOTES FROM THE ENCOUNTER
• Besiktas (6D 1B), who lost their only point in the last seven Super League games they hosted Konyaspor last season, have yet to win two consecutive home games against Konya side.
• Konyaspor have won two of their last five Super League games against Beşiktaş (1D, 2m) and aim to surpass the number of wins in the last 20 games (2D, 7D, 11m).
• Beşiktaş, managed by Şenol Güneş, have their longest winning streak with 3 points from their last seven Super League games. The last period in which the Black and Whites had eight consecutive wins was between September and November 2009, during the Mustafa Denizli period.
• Konyaspor (14), the team with the most draws in Super League this season, ended the 2018/19 season with a higher number in league history (17).
• Beşiktaş (76.5%) won 13 of 17 home games in the 2022/23 Super League season and finished the 2017/18 season (82.4%) with a higher ratio.
• Having defeated Kasımpaşa 2-1 in their last Istanbul visit in the Super League, Konyaspor are yet to have two wins away from the city.
• Vincent Aboubakar, who has scored 13 goals in his last 11 Super League games, has scored in all of his last five games. Since 2007/08, when Opta has detailed data on this area, there are only two Beşiktaş players who have scored in six consecutive league games: Mario Gomez (April-May 2016) and Burak Yılmaz (March-April 2019).
• Mame Diouf, who aims to be the first player to score ten goals in three consecutive seasons since 2020/21 when she joined the Super League, is the only rival against whom she has more than Beşiktaş (4) among the Teams played has goals they failed to score in their Turkish career Alanyaspor (6).
• Şenol Güneş, who has won the last six Super League games in which he hosted his foreign counterparts, caught the only time he won seven in a row between October 1988 and December 1989.
• Şenol Güneş (started at Trabzonspor in 1988), who lost his first game of his Süper Lig career against Konyaspor, went unbeaten in the following nine games (6D 3D) and won the last four games (all in Beşiktaş).
