İstanbul Başakşehir

Match report

Istanbul Başakşehir and Kocaelispor met in the opening round of the Süper Lig at the Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium on Sunday. The hosts won 2-0 with goals from Christopher Operi and Eldor Shomurodov. The result leaves Başakşehir on four points in ninth place while Kocaelispor remain sixth on six.

Operi opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute. There was then a flurry of VAR checks around the half-hour mark when Emin Bayram had two goals cancelled for Kocaelispor. The first incident came in the twenty-seventh minute, then again in the twenty-ninth. By then, Tayfur Bingöl had already picked up a yellow card for the visitors.

Shomurodov made it two in the seventy-second minute. The game saw several changes in the second half. Fayzullaev was replaced in the sixty-third minute while Kutlu came on for Kocaelispor in the sixty-seventh. Shomurodov himself was substituted in the seventy-fifth minute, as was Bertuğ Yıldırım. Bingöl came off in the seventy-sixth minute.

And here's the thing about the statistics. Başakşehir had 51 per cent possession and created 1.96 expected goals. They took thirteen shots with five on target. Kocaelispor registered 0.43 expected goals from four shots on target. The visitors made more clearances with twenty-nine compared to nineteen. Both sides received two yellow cards.

The clean-sheet run came to an end for Kocaelispor after three matches without conceding. Başakşehir had drawn one and lost two of their previous fixtures. The hosts will look to build momentum from this performance while the visitors face questions about their defensive vulnerability.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 51 – 49

Shots on target 5 – 4

Shots off target 8 – 2

Expected goals 1.96 – 0.43

⚽ 14' Christopher Operi — Goal 27' E. Bayram — var_goal_cancelled 29' Emin Bayram — var_goal_cancelled 🟨 31' Tayfur Bingöl — Yellow card 🟨 51' Abbosbek Fayzullaev — Yellow card ⇄ 63' Abbosbek Fayzullaev — Substitution ⇄ 67' Berkan Kutlu — Substitution ⚽ 72' Eldor Shomurodov — Goal ⇄ 75' Eldor Shomurodov — Substitution ⇄ 75' Bertuğ Yıldırım — Substitution ⇄ 76' Tayfur Bingöl — Substitution 🟨 81' Tanguy Zoukrou — Yellow card ⇄ 85' Makana Baku — Substitution ⇄ 85' Dan Agyei — Substitution ⇄ 89' Andreas Skov Olsen — Substitution ⇄ 90' Jakub Kałuziński — Substitution 🟨 90+2' Ömer Ali Şahiner — Yellow card

Match events

14' 1:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Goal Christopher Operi assist: Abbosbek Fayzullaev
27' 1:0 İstanbul Başakşehir var_goal_cancelled E. Bayram
29' 1:0 İstanbul Başakşehir var_goal_cancelled Emin Bayram
31' 1:0 Kocaelispor FK Yellow card Tayfur Bingöl
51' 1:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Yellow card Abbosbek Fayzullaev
63' 1:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Substitution Abbosbek Fayzullaev off: Yusuf Sarı
67' 1:0 Kocaelispor FK Substitution Berkan Kutlu off: Metehan Altunbaş
72' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Goal Eldor Shomurodov assist: Andreas Skov Olsen
75' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Substitution Eldor Shomurodov off: Davie Selke
75' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Substitution Bertuğ Yıldırım off: Umut Bozok
76' 2:0 Kocaelispor FK Substitution Tayfur Bingöl off: Emir Ortakaya
81' 2:0 Kocaelispor FK Yellow card Tanguy Zoukrou
85' 2:0 Kocaelispor FK Substitution Makana Baku off: Arda Ozyar
85' 2:0 Kocaelispor FK Substitution Dan Agyei off: Ege Bilim
89' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Substitution Andreas Skov Olsen off: Hamza Güreler
90' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Substitution Jakub Kałuziński off: Onur Ergün
90+2' 2:0 İstanbul Başakşehir Yellow card Ömer Ali Şahiner

Statistics

51 Possession, % 49

5 Shots on target 4

8 Shots off target 2

1.96 Expected goals 0.43

2 Big chances 1

103 Attacks 72

8 Corners 2

14 Fouls 14

14 Free kicks 14

0 Offsides 3

2 Yellow cards 2

0 Red cards 0

3 Goal kicks 13

14 Throw-ins 19

All statistics

17/3057% Aerial duels 13/3043%

68 Backward passes 67

4 Blocked shots 2

19 Clearances 29

7/2035% Crosses 3/933%

7/1164% Dribbles 4/667%

1.68 Expected assists 0.49

69 Failed passes 73

4 Goalkeeper saves 3

8 Interceptions 9

14 Key passes 8

25/4556% Long passes 22/5739%

60 Passes into the final third 50

232 Passes in the opposition half 191

257 Passes in own half 279

0.29 Shot accuracy 0.50

8 Shots from outside the box 5

9 Shots inside the box 3

7/1547% Tackles 5/1050%

469 Total passes 461

Line-ups

Starting XI
#	Player	number
16	Muhammed Şengezer	16
3	Jerome Osei Opoku	3
21	Christopher Téa Operi	21
23	Emin Bayram	23
42	Ömer Ali Şahiner	42
8	Olivier Michel Kemen	8
11	Abbosbek Fayzullaev	11
14	Eldor Azamat Shomurodov	14
18	Jakub Kałuziński	18
70	Andreas Skov Olsen	70
91	Bertuğ Özgür Yıldırım	91

Substitutes
#	Player	number
98	Deniz Dilmen	98
15	Hamza Gureler	15
33	Michał Karbownik	33
4	Onur Ergün	4
19	Berkay Özcan	19
20	Umut Güneş	20
7	Yusuf Sarı	7
9	Davie Selke	9
17	Umut Dilan Bozok	17
77	Ivan Brnić	77

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Kocaelispor FK

Starting XI
#	Player	number
83	Serhat Öztaşdelen	83
2	Anfernee Jamal Dijksteel	2
4	Tanguy Zoukrou	4
21	Massadio Haïdara	21
22	Uğur Kaan Yıldız	22
7	Daniel Ebenezer Kwasi Agyei	7
10	Berkan İsmail Kutlu	10
14	Manuel Luís da Silva Cafumana	14
32	Makana Nsimba Baku	32
75	Tayfur Bingöl	75
99	Rigoberto Manuel Rivas Vindel	99

Substitutes
#	Player	number
23	Onurcan Piri	23
3	Muharrem Cinan	3
5	Emir Ortakaya	5
41	Onur Öztonga	41
19	Haydar Karadas	19
20	Mahamadou Susoho Sissoho	20
27	Ege Bilim	27
17	Arda Özyar	17
26	Metehan Altunbaş	26
89	Bedirhan Yıldız	89

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