Match Report
The table gap was wide: 26 points between Kayserispor (14th, 42 pts) and İstanbulspor (20th, 16 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: Kayserispor 1.16 scored and 1.5 conceded per game, İstanbulspor 0.71 and 2.11, with the league averaging 1.4.
Kayserispor entered with six losses in a row. İstanbulspor were winless in 6.
4 meetings are on record — 2 won by Kayserispor, 1 by İstanbulspor, 1 drawn, at 3 goals per meeting. Clean sheets are rare between these two — both scored in 75% of the meetings.
With 82 matches recorded and 1.8 yellow cards per game, C. Aydın was the man in the middle. The match was played at Kadir Has Şehir Stadı in Kayseri (capacity 32,864). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.