In this 7th week match, on Saturday Sep 17th, İstanbulspor and Beşiktaş will play a match in İstanbul in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Super Lig teams in the ever popular İstanbul derby. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 26 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. In their last match, 16th placed İstanbulspor, recorded a 1-1 draw against Sivasspor. Valon Ethemi struck first for İstanbulspor in the 64th minute, but Fredrik Ulvestad got the equalizer for Sivasspor in the 80th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Sivasspor. İstanbulspor looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 3 of their last 10, while 3rd placed Beşiktaş is fresh off their 0-1 loss against İstanbul Başakşehir. Bertrand Traoré struck first for İstanbul Başakşehir in the 71st minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring At the end of 90 a dissapointed Beşiktaş couldn’t manage to score, and İstanbul Başakşehir took the shutout win. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Beşiktaş should be reasonably happy with their performance.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out.
Jackson Muleka has been on a hot streak lately. In the last five games, the attacker has scored four goals for Beşiktaş.
İstanbulspor will be without Eslem Öztürk, while Valérien Ismaël’s Beşiktaş squad will be without Atiba Hutchinson.