In this 26th week match, on Friday Feb 18th, İstanbul Başakşehir will travel to Rize to battle Rizespor in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Super Lig teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 10 degrees, a perfect day for football. Rizespor sits at 18th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Altay. Neither Altay nor Rizespor could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 8 and 11 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Rizespor is looking for direction having 3 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while i̇stanbul Başakşehir is fresh off their 2-0 shutout win against Gazişehir Gaziantep. Pizzi struck first for İstanbul Başakşehir in the 34th minute on a feed from Trezeguet, then Serdar Gürler added another in the 87th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Gazişehir Gaziantep couldn’t manage to score, and İstanbul Başakşehir took the shutout win. With 18 points in their last 10 matches İstanbul Başakşehir should be reasonably happy with their performance.
İstanbul Başakşehir and Rizespor last played eachother at the Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu on Sep 26th. İstanbul Başakşehir was victorious by a score of 3 to 0. Stefano Okaka scored the first goal for İstanbul Başakşehir in the 25th minute, then Stefano Okaka added another in the 55th minute on a feed from Edin Višća At the end of 90 a dissapointed Rizespor couldn’t manage to score, and İstanbul Başakşehir took the shutout win.
Junior Caiçara and Danijel Aleksić are the top scorers for İstanbul Başakşehir in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Gökhan Gönül and Joel Pohjanpalo are the top scorers for Rizespor in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.