Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Nişantaşıspor (6th, 51 pts) held a 17-point advantage over Yeni Ufukspor (13th, 34 pts). Yeni Ufukspor had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 6th in the league over the last five rounds against 13th overall. Per game in the league, Yeni Ufukspor were scoring 1.27 and conceding 1.63, Nişantaşıspor 1.47 and 1.3, against a competition average of 1.51 goals per team per game.
Yeni Ufukspor had gone 5 games without a win. Nişantaşıspor had won four straight, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Yeni Ufukspor had banked 2 of the last 15 points on offer; Nişantaşıspor, 12.
The venue was Yusuf Ziya Öniş Stadyumu in Istanbul, with room for 7,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Yeni Ufukspor led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.