About Match
Kocaelispor go into the game 3rd in the table on 9 points; İstanbul Başakşehir sit 12th on 4 — a 5-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Kocaelispor 1.25 scored and 0.75 conceded per game, İstanbul Başakşehir 1.5 and 1.5, with the league averaging 1.46. Three points here take Kocaelispor to 12 and up to 1st, assuming other results stand.
Kocaelispor arrive on a run of three straight wins.
The sides have met 4 times in the GioScore results database: 0 wins for Kocaelispor, 1 draw and 3 for İstanbul Başakşehir, at 2.5 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 75% of the meetings went to the host. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals.
İsmetpaşa Stadyumu in İzmit, capacity 34,829, hosts the game.