In a mid week match on Thu Jan 5th, in week 17, Gazişehir Gaziantep will play host to İstanbul Başakşehir in a meeting of these two mismatched Super Lig teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 5 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Gazişehir Gaziantep is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Giresunspor. Sergio Antonio Da Luiz Junior struck first for Giresunspor in the 24th minute on a feed from Alper Uludağ, then Valmir Veliu tied it up for Gazişehir Gaziantep in the 51st minute on a feed from Furkan Soyalp. Gazişehir Gaziantep looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while in their last match, 3rd placed İstanbul Başakşehir, recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Antalyaspor. Deniz Türüç scored the first goal for İstanbul Başakşehir in the 57th minute, then Danijel Aleksić added another in the 66th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Antalyaspor couldn’t manage to score, and İstanbul Başakşehir took the shutout win. With 17 points in their last 10 matches İstanbul Başakşehir should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
Danijel Aleksić has been the most prolific scorer on İstanbul Başakşehir in the last 5 matches with three goals. For Gazişehir Gaziantep, their top scorers are Alexandru Maxim and Joao Figueiredo, each having 2 goals in their last 5 matches.