On the 31st of October, in this week 12 match, İstanbul Başakşehir will host Giresunspor in a clash of the Super Lig. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 14 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, 4th placed İstanbul Başakşehir, recorded a 0-1 loss against Fenerbahçe. Diego Rossi scored the first goal for Fenerbahçe in the 84th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed İstanbul Başakşehir couldn’t manage to score, and Fenerbahçe took the shutout win. With 20 points in their last 10 matches İstanbul Başakşehir should be reasonably happy with their performance, while in their last match, 16th placed Giresunspor, recorded a 1-1 draw against Ankaragücü. Jesé Rodríguez scored the first goal for Ankaragücü in the 69th minute from the penalty spot, then Riad Bajić got the equalizer for Giresunspor in the 85th minute on a feed from Brandley Kuwas squeezing out at least the one point for Giresunspor. Giresunspor looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season İstanbul Başakşehir won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
Görkem Sağlam and Riad Bajić are the top scorers for Giresunspor in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. For İstanbul Başakşehir, their top scorers are Stefano Okaka and Youssouf Ndayishimiye, each having 2 goals in their last 5 matches.