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Steffen Schmidt - September 22, 2021
Altay vs Besiktas
Turkey Super Lig,
Date: Friday, 24 September 2021
Kick-off 18:00 UK/ 19:00 CET
Venue: Bornova Aziz Kocaoglu Stadyumu.
Third-placed Altay play host to defending champions Besiktas in the first game of the Matchday No 7 in the Super Lig.
Altay have well confounded the pre-season expectations with a marvelous start to their top-flight campaign.
They returned to the elite class of Turkish football after 19 years only after winning the promotional playoffs.
However, Mustafa Denizli’s men showed no fear against the elite class rivals, winning four of the opening six games of the season.
Altay have had a fantastic spell of seven days, starting with a 2-1 home win over Goztepe last Friday and going across to Tuesday’s 1-2 victory at Rizespor.
Their top scorer Daouda Bamba continued his excellent spell of form netting his third goal of the season on Tuesday at Rize.
Altay have generally been pretty impressive in the final third, scoring as many as 12 goals in the opening 6 games.
The hosts will fancy their chances of maintaining such a tremendous attacking form here against Besiktas whose defense did not exist in the last couple of weeks.
The reigning champions have just dropped a three-goal advantage to take only a single point from the home clash against Adana Demirspor on Tuesday.
Sergen Yalcin’s men conceded seven goals in the last three outings across competitions.
We could be in for a true goal fest here. Both teams’ form suggests an open game packed with goal-scoring chances at both ends. We can hardly imagine either of the two outfits keeping a clean sheet here.
The quality is on Besiktas’ side, though, and we will also back the visitors to claim the spoils at the 1.70 odds.
