Match Report
45 points separated the sides: Gençlerbirliği 2nd on 70, Elazığspor 17th on 25. Gençlerbirliği ranked just 6th in the league on five-round form despite their 2nd table position. Per game in the league, Elazığspor were scoring 1.12 and conceding 1.88, Gençlerbirliği 1.47 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Elazığspor for 8 matches. Four consecutive defeats weighed on Gençlerbirliği.
4 meetings are on record — 1 won by Elazığspor, 2 by Gençlerbirliği, 1 drawn, at 3 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 25% of meetings won. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 75% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 100%.
The venue was Elaziğ Atatürk Stadyumu in Elazig, with room for 14,467 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-2.