Read our prediction for Goztepe vs Rizespor below. This preview was written by a sport journalist who is specialised in betting tips and predictions. Use our betting tips for the match between Goztepe vs Rizespor and you can increase your winnings!
Goztepe vs Rizespor Prediction & Betting tips
In Izmir, fans of Göztepe are looking forward to the second home game in the new Gürsel Aksel Stadium. As with the opening of the stadium against Besiktas, a sold-out backdrop can be assumed. “Göz Göz” welcomes Rizespor on Monday evening and will round off the 21st matchday in the Süper Lig.
Bookies consider Göztepe vs Rizespor to be their favorites according to odds. A tip on the yellow-red is highly recommended due to the current shape. Coach Ilhan Palut wants to continue the trend of success, but doesn’t really see the international starting positions as a realistic goal. After the partly mixed first half of the season, a placement in the top eight teams would be gratifying for Palut.
For Rizespor, winning points in Izmir is very important. The Black Sea Club does not have to master the simplest tasks in the upcoming weeks. In three of the next four games, Rizespor will meet teams from the top third of the table. Due to this year’s away record from the Black Sea Club, at Göztepe against Rizespor we find only a few arguments that speak for a forecast for the guests.
Goztepe:
Although Göztepe is currently in eighth place in the table, the team around head coach Ilhan Palut remains realistic. What was defined as the main goal in the run-up to the second half of the season may well be achieved in the next few weeks. Göztepe is only a few points away from early relegation.
On Monday evening, the yellow-red will play for the second time in the new Gürsel Aksel Stadium. The new arena was successfully inaugurated with the home win over Besiktas Istanbul. As with the opening of the stadium, a sold-out backdrop can also be expected in the home game against Rizespor.
Göztepe has had a home record of 4-3-2 in the Süper Lig so far. Most recently, the club from Izmir remained unbeaten four times in a row at home. Besiktas (2: 1) and Galatasaray (2: 1) were defeated. In the first two home games of the current season, there were no goals at home for the yellow-red team. Since then, there has been at least one “Göz Göz” goal in every home game across all competitions.
Goetzpe will have to do without the goalkeeper on Monday evening. Beto recently received his fifth yellow card of the current season and has to pause. Göktug Bakirbas will replace the Portuguese in goal. In addition, Wallace Reis and Deniz Kadah are two players on the injured list.
If Göztepe can assert itself against Rizespor, lucrative odds for a tip on the yellow-red wave.
Rizespor:
Rizespor is currently going through a mixed season. After a promising start to the season, the Black Sea club had even slipped to 16th place in the table in the course of the first half of the season. Then the blue-green fought back to the saving shore and at least stayed away from the relegation battle.
As the current table constellation shows, a relegation battle in the second half of the season cannot be ruled out. Only seven points separate the Black Sea club from Rize from the red zone. Considering how difficult the rest of the program in February is, it would not be unrealistic if this cushion was further reduced.
It is therefore all the more important to win a punk in Izmir. According to Rizespor’s weak away record, there isn’t much to be said for the guests. In the Süper Lig, Rizespor is currently the second worst away team in the league. Most recently there was a happy point win for the leaders from Sivas.
This left Rizespor unbeaten abroad for the second time in a row. This upward trend is now to be continued in Izmir. Ismail Kartal has no defaults on Monday evening and can therefore draw on unlimited resources. No major changes are expected in the starting eleven.
Goztepe vs Rizespor head to head matches
15.09.19 SL Rizespor Goztepe 0 : 0
13.04.19 SL Rizespor Goztepe 1 : 0
05.11.18 SL Goztepe Rizespor 2 : 0
10.02.13 1LIG Rizespor Goztepe 5 : 1
23.09.12 1LIG Goztepe Rizespor 1 : 0