In a mid week match in week 9, on Mon Oct 10th, Sivasspor and İstanbul Başakşehir will play a match in İstanbul in a Super Lig match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 16 degrees, which will be a great treat for players. İstanbul Başakşehir sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-1 win against Ankaragücü. Stefano Okaka struck first for İstanbul Başakşehir in the 3rd minute on a feed from Mounir Chouiar, but Tolga Ciğerci got the equalizer for Ankaragücü in the 55th minute. İstanbul Başakşehir should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 20 points in their last 10 matches, while sivasspor is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Hatayspor. Ayoub El Kaabi scored the first goal for Hatayspor in the 14th minute, then Bertuğ Yıldırım added another in the 20th minute. Sivasspor looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches.
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 2 wins.
Erdoğan Yeşilyurt has been the most prolific scorer on Sivasspor in the last five matches with 2 goals. Both Philippe Paulin Keny and Stefano Okaka have been the hottest scorers for İstanbul Başakşehir in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals
Mesut Özil and Patryk Szysz are unavailable to play for İstanbul Başakşehir, while Abdul Keita, Erdoğan Yeşilyurt, Robin Yalçın, Ziya Erdal and Ahmed Musa are unavailable to play for Sivasspor.