Besiktas vs Fatih Karagumruk Prediction: Business end for Europe-chasing Besiktas

Besiktas look to strengthen their claim on a top-four spot in the Turkish Super Lig as they welcome basement club Fatih Karagumruk to the Tupras Stadium on Monday (18:00 BST). Two very different end goals as European hopefuls face relegation battlers.

Read further for my Besiktas vs Fatih Karagumruk predictions with the latest team news and match odds.

Team News

Midfielder Kartal Yilmaz is sidelined for Besiktas. The 25-year-old is unlikely to return before the end of the season, with mid-to-late May cited for his recovery.

Football Odds

Fatih Karagumruk are without Moussa Kone, who has missed the last three matches with a muscle injury. Joining him on the fringes is Ahmet Sivri, who is carrying a muscle problem of his own.

Besiktas vs Fatih Karagumruk Odds

Besiktas are 3/10 favourites to triumph. Bottom-placed Karagumruk are priced at 15/2 to pull off the upset while the draw is marketed at 4/1.

Besiktas to win to nil @ 23/20

For all the flux of this season, including Sergen Yalcin’s early replacement of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, there is every chance Besiktas will finish in the same fourth-place they managed last season. When it comes to the upper reaches of Turkish football, the big clubs only ever fail on a relative scale.

Which is why I think they will have no problem holding off floundering Fatih and keeping a clean sheet in the process. A confidence boosting 3-0 win in the Turkish Cup over Alanyaspor should give the home side momentum to produce a similar result.

Besiktas to win both halves @ 13/8

Efficiency has not always been in abundance at Besiktas Park this term. But as the season approaches its end, I feel like the 16-time league champions will look at the visit of the Super Lig basement club as easy meat at this stage.

Things don’t always pan out that way for this mercurial giant. However, I reckon Besiktas will leave little doubt and prove victorious in both halves of a straightforward encounter.

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