In this week 19 match on the 15th of January, İstanbulspor and Ümraniyespor will play a match in İstanbul in a meeting of these two evenly matched Super Lig teams in the anticipated İstanbul derby. Ümraniyespor sits at 18th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Giresunspor. Mrsic struck first for Ümraniyespor in the 83rd minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Giresunspor couldn’t muster any offence and Ümraniyespor ran away with the shutout win. Ümraniyespor is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while i̇stanbulspor sits at 19th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Gazişehir Gaziantep. Marko Jevtović struck first for Gazişehir Gaziantep in the 38th minute on a feed from Furkan Soyalp, but Valon Ethemi got the equalizer for İstanbulspor in the 12th minute of the second half’s stoppage time squeezing out at least the one point for İstanbulspor. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 8 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
İstanbulspor’s top weapon lately has been Valon Ethemi, who has three goals in the last 5 matches. Ümraniyespor is fortunate enough to have Mehmet Umut Nayir in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals.