Knowing that a point will secure Champions League football for the upcoming season, Fenerbahce will take a trip to Yeni Malatya Stadyumu for a playoff with Yeni Malatyaspor in their final Super Lig game of the season on Saturday. Kickoff set for May 21, 2022 09:00 EAT.
The hosts set to end the season bottom of the Super Lig with 20 points from 37 matches. It has been seldom in recent times where Yeni Malatyaspor have shown defensive steel. Yeni Malatyaspor have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 14 goals on the way.
Yeni Malatyaspor will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Super Lig defeat last time out to Kayserispor. In that game, Yeni Malatyasporhad 41% possession,12 shots with 3 of them on target and a goal scored by Philip Gameli Awuku (45′ Own goal). Kayserispor got 11 shots with 6 of them on target and goals scored by GökhanSazdağı (10′) and HayrullahErkip (72′).
On the other hand, the visitors sit second in the table with 70 points from 37 matches. In their last five fixtures, three wins and two draws has been recorded. In their last 6 fixtures, they’ve seen goals scored against total 3 while they managed to score 14.
Fenerbahçe will hope for improved result following on a 0-0 drawn game in the Super Lig tie with Fatih Karagümrük. In that game, Fenerbahçe got 60% possession, 16 shots with 6 of them on target. FatihKaragümrük got 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target.
Yeni Malatyaspor vs Fenerbahce head-to-head
These two teams have had 10 encounters since 2011; Yeni Malatyaspor has 3 wins while Fenerbahce has 5 wins and two games ended all square.
- Fenerbahce 2-0 Malatyaspor26/12/21
- Malatyaspor 1-1 Fenerbahce08/04/21
- Fenerbahce 0-3 Malatyaspor12/12/20
- Fenerbahce 3-2 Malatyaspor27/06/20
- Malatyaspor 0-0 Fenerbahce24/11/19
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- Kayserispor 3-0 Malatyaspor
- Malatyaspor 1-3 Rizespor
- Alanyaspor 2-1 Malatyaspor
- Malatyaspor 2-3 Konyaspor
- Galatasaray 2-0 Malatyaspor
Away
- Fenerbahce 0-0 FatihKaragumruk
- Besiktas 1-1 Fenerbahce
- Fenerbahce 3-2 Gaziantep
- Rizespor 0-6 Fenerbahce
- Fenerbahce 1-0 Shakhta
Yeni Malatyaspor team news
Cihat Arslan will miss the services of Nuri Fatih Aydin and Stevie Mallan due to injuries.
Fenerbahçe team news
İsmail Kartal will have a fully fit squad ahead of this match.
Prediction and Odds
Yeni Malatyasporhaven’t won against Fenerbahçe in home games against them for the last 2 matches in the league and are without a home win in the past 4 matches in the league. Meanwhile, Fenerbahce will be hoping to end up this season by sealing a positive display to extend the unbeaten thread to 14 games.
- Fenerbahce win
- Both teams to score
- Goals over 2.5
