The countdown match of the 15th stage of the Turkish championship between Gaziantep and Beşiktaş will take place on Sunday, December 25 at 15:00 at Kalion Arena, live on Prima Sport 1.

One of the most interesting games of the 15th stage of the Super League, the first after the competitive break caused by the World Cup in Qatar, is the game between Gaziantep and Besiktas, two teams aiming to reach the European cups.

10th-placed Gaziantep have 16 points from 13 matches and have won just one league match in their last five (two losses, two draws).

In the last match of the 1/8 finals of the Turkish Cup, Erol Bulut’s team defeated second league team “Boluspor” at home with a score of 3:1, and the goal was scored by the Romanian player Alexandru Maxim. penalty and assist.

The Romanian midfielder is actually the star of Gaziantep, for whom he scored 36 goals in 84 league appearances (38 goals in 90 appearances in all competitions) and was even wanted by today’s rivals in the summer.

Also in Gaziantep is Alin Toshka, a former FCSB, Betis Sevilla and PAOK Thessaloniki defender.

Beşiktaş are in 8th place with 22 points from 13 games and have won just once in their last five league matches, during which they also lost the derby against one of their big rivals in Istanbul, Galatasaray ( 1-2 against the opponent). field).

In the last match, the “Eagles” defeated the second division “Sanliurfaspor” with a score of 4:2 and went to the 1/8 finals of the Turkish Cup, the last goal was scored by the Dutch striker Wout Verghorst, who was involved in the high-profile scandal with Lionel Messi at the World Cup in Qatar.

After finishing 6th in the previous season, Beşiktaş decided to go for “hardened” Premier League players this season, thus transferring important names such as Wout Weghorst, Cenk Tosun, Dele Alli, Hedson Fernandez and Artur Masuaku, but results expected disappointment.

Since October 28, after the dismissal of Frenchman Valerien Ismael, the team was trained by Senol Gunes, the coach with whom Turkey took 3rd place at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, and the coach with whom the Eagles won. two titles, in 2016 and 2017.

In their last head-to-head match, Besiktas beat Gaziantep 1-0 in Istanbul in January with a goal from Michy Batshuayi, the Belgian striker who has since reached another cross-town rival, Fenerbahce.

Superbet offers odds of 1.90 on prediction 2: victory of the guests in the match Gaziantep – Besiktas.

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