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Basaksehir vs Bursaspor Prediction & Betting tips
The new season starts Friday in Turkey. In the opening game, Basaksehir and Bursaspor take on each other. Which team will win the first match of the season?
Basaksehir :
Basaksehir managed to cure friend and foe last season by joining the one-after-last week in the title fight. The owls were a much better team than top clubs like Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. Unfortunately, they did not win the season with a price, because in the final of the cup one went down to Konyaspor.
Coach Abdullah Avci has to say goodbye to a number of players, including Samuel Holmen, Yalcin Ayhan, Cengiz Under, Eren Albayrak. Especially Cengiz Under will be missed. The young talent has been sold to Roma. Even Basaksehir was not quiet at the transfer market. They managed to pick up some nice players including Aurelien Chedjou (Galatasaray), Eljero Elia (Feyenoord), Tunay Torun (Kasimpasa), Gael Clichy (Manchester City), Mevlut Erdinc (Metz), Gokhan Inler (Besiktas), Kerim Frei (Birmingham) and Manuel da Costa (Olympiakos). The owls have thus strengthened in every position. Elia is a good substitute of Under. The ex-Feyenoorder knew immediately in his debut.
The owl season had started before. They took it against Club Brugge in the champions league championship. These matches ended in 3-3 (out) and 2-0 (home) and thus Basaksehir knew European football. In both matches, the owls showed good football. They have shown that they will be title candidate this year as well.
Bursaspor:
Bursaspor has a bad season behind. It seemed that the crocodiles would degrade, but thanks to a comeback in the last week, the crocodiles still managed to stay in the league. At Bursaspor they want to forget about the last season as soon as possible. It’s all got better this season and so they have set up a new coach. Paul Le Guen is now in charge of the crocodiles.
Despite the fact that the team did not perform well last season, Bursaspor has not been too active in the transfer market. A large part of the team remained intact. Samil Cinaz and Tomas Sivok were allowed to pack their suitcases. Many of the in-game players are not really players who immediately lift the team to a higher level. William Troost-Ekong (Ghent), Titi (Kasimpasa), Baris Yardimci (Gaziantepspor) and Mikel Agu (FC Porto) joined the crocodiles. The big transfer of Bursaspor this summer is Emmanuel Badu (Udinese). According to the board, at least three players are still bought.
After a very bad season you would expect the crocodiles to prepare themselves well for the new season. But I do not really see this at Bursaspor. The crocodiles have only played four practice matches. In this, they had a problem with teams that were much weaker.
Basaksehir vs Bursaspor head to head matches
29.01.17 SL Basaksehir Bursaspor 1 : 0
28.08.16 SL Bursaspor Basaksehir 0 : 2
06.02.16 SL Bursaspor Basaksehir 3 : 3
29.08.15 SL Basaksehir Bursaspor 2 : 1
25.04.15 SL Bursaspor Basaksehir 4 : 1