Trabzonspor vs Antalyaspor Prediction & Betting Tips - Super Lig

Prediction published on 09/08/2023, 16:01  by Kennedy Kechula in Super Lig Predictions

Trabzonspor will be at home on Friday to face Antalyaspor ion Match Day 1 of the 2023/24 Turkish Super Lig season. Both teams arrive for this match after contrasting experiences in pre-season. Trabzonspor have won three of their last four matches and will be confident of carrying on with this form here. They closed out pre-season with an emphatic 5-0 win over 1461 Trabzon FK, bouncing back after losing 3-1 to AEK Athens. Nenad Bjelica’s charges finished last season in sixth place. This was their worst finish to a league campaign since finishing sixth again in the 2016/17 season. Karadeniz Fırtınası won their seventh league crown two seasons ago, to end an almost 40-year wait for a league title. They will hope to return to the summit this season. Trabzonspor are unbeaten in the last seven matches they have been hosts against Antalyaspor and have won five times.

Antalyaspor have won twice in this fixture in the last five matches with their last win coming in the reverse fixture last season. As they arrive for this match struggling for form, they will hope for a similar fate. Nuri Sahin’s charges haven’t won in their last five fixtures, all pre-season friendlies. They lost twice with their latest defeat coming in their final match against Hatayspor. The Scorpions were defeated 2-1 to end a run of two similar 1-1 draws. Antalyaspor struggled last season and finished in 13th place after losing 17 of 36 matches. They ended the season without a win in their last five games and lost three times.