Yasmine Green
Dailysports's expert
Translated by the editors
On March 30, Kâzım Karabekir Stadyumu (Erzurum) will host the match of the 29th round of the Turkish 1. Lig, in which BB Erzurumspor will compete with Altay. The battle will start at 16:00 CET.
BB Erzurumspor
The team is still young – it started its way in the early years of the current century. However, it has already made two attempts to gain a foothold in the Super Lig, but both in 2019 and in 2021 the promotions were followed by immediate relegations. And, having returned to the 1. Lig, “the White and Blues” spent a rather modest previous season, finishing in the 5th place. Nowadays, one can only dream of the higher mentioned result. In fact, Erzurumspor (note that Olanare, who played in CSKA and Amkar, performs in the team) can simply finish the season, realizing that it will not be relegated, but, at the same time, there no chances for promotion or even appearance higher in the middle of the table. Although in the spring, after a long unsuccessful series, the team gave out several victories in a row – those were the victories in the battles with Denizlispor and Yeni Malatyaspor. Still, the performance was not enough for Bodrumspor – that match ended in a goalless draw.
Altay
The club played in the Super Lig in the previous season. To be honest, “the Büyük” showed very weak results there – the 18th position. And, worst of all, even the statistics of the matches in lower division are still extremely modest. Despite the experienced Portuguese striker Marco Paixao, who has already scored a dozen and half goals (a considerable part of which belongs to successful penalties), the representative of Izmir conceded too many and too often. Recently, the team has “broken” the higher mentioned tradition – it beat Yeni Malatyaspor and Eyupspor, but those victories were followed by a 1-3 defeat made by Rizespor. The same score was in the match against Bandirmaspor.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
Until the current season, the head-to-head matches were played in the 2019/2020 draw, and they were also in the 1. Lig – the opponents exchanged the away wins there. Speaking about this season, there was a draw in Izmir in October.
Predictions
Bookmakers consider BB Erzurumspor to be the favourite of the following battle. Moreover, it will play at home arena. Still, it is not much more stable than the guests from Izmir. Thus, it’s better to focus on “total: under 2.5” (odd: 1.74).
