Week 25 features a match on Sunday Feb 13th, where Sivasspor will host Yeni Malatyaspor in a meeting of these two Super Lig teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only -5 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Sivasspor sits at 12th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-5 loss against Gazişehir Gaziantep. Papy Djilobodji scored the first goal for Gazişehir Gaziantep in the 6th minute, then Muhammet Demir added another in the 12th minute on a feed from Stelios Kitsiou. Sivasspor is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while 20th placed Yeni Malatyaspor is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Fatih Karagümrük. Salih Dursun scored the first goal for Fatih Karagümrük in the 63rd minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Yeni Malatyaspor couldn’t manage to score, and Fatih Karagümrük took the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 6 of their last 10.
On Sep 21st, Yeni Malatyaspor hosted Sivasspor in their last match together. Sivasspor was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Dimitris Goutas scored the first goal for Sivasspor in the 70th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Yeni Malatyaspor was frustrated by Sivasspor’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Sivasspor ended the match with the shutout victory.
Yeni Malatyaspor is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Mustafa Eskihellaç and Adem Büyük each only have 1 goal in their last 5. Both Leke James and Pedro Henrique have been the hottest scorers for Sivasspor in the last five each having scored 2 goals
Rıza Çalımbay’s Sivasspor squad will be without Hakan Arslan and Jorge Félix, while Marius Ninel Şumudică’s squad will be without Adem Büyük, Benjamin Tetteh and Nuri Aydin.