📊 Form Guide

Çaykur Rizespor

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Çaykur Rizespor will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Super Lig defeat last time out to Fatih Karagümrük.

In that game, Çaykur Rizespor managed 63% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Çaykur Rizespor was Ali Sowe (70'). Fatih Karagumruk got 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Serginho (39') and Shavy Babicka (87') scored for Fatih Karagümrük.

Over their last six fixtures, Recep Uçar's Çaykur Rizespor have hit the back of the net a total of 9 times, with that being an average number of goals per match equal to 1.5.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Çaykur Rizespor:

• are unbeaten in the league by Samsunspor in their previous 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Samsunspor

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Previously, Samsunspor drew 2-2 in the Super Lig match with Konyaspor.

In that match, Samsunspor had 63% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Samsunspor was Carlo Holse (42', 72'). On the other side, Konyaspor had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Enis Bardhi (23') and Blaž Kramer (78') scored for Konyaspor.

Thorsten Fink's Samsunspor have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 8 times in the course of their latest six matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that same period equals 9.

Coming into this meeting, Samsunspor haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 04/03/2023 shows that Çaykur Rizespor have won 2 of these games & Samsunspor 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A total of 14 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Atmacalar and 9 for Kırmızı Şimşekler. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The last league clash featuring these sides was Super Lig match day 10 on 27/10/2025 when it ended Samsunspor 1-1 Çaykur Rizespor.

That time, Samsunspor had 55% possession and 25 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer was Carlo Holse (7').

At the other end, Çaykur Rizespor had 8 shots at goal with 1 on target. Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (43') was the scorer.

The referee was Cihan Aydin.

📰 Team News: Çaykur Rizespor

It’s our opinion that Atmacalar may well make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation this time, utilising Yahia Fofana, Mithat Pala, Attila Mocsi, Modibo Sagnan, C. Højer Nielsen, Taylan Antalyali, Qazim Laci, Loide Augusto, Ibrahim Olawoyin, Valentin Mihaila and Halil Dervisoglu.

📋 Team News: Samsunspor

Samsunspor manager Thorsten Fink has some current player fitness concerns. Lubomir Satka (Hand injury), Tahsin Bülbül (unknown injury), Celil Yüksel (unknown injury), İrfan Can Eğribayat (unknown injury), Bedirhan Çetin (Cruciate ligament tear) and Jaurès Assoumou (Knee medial ligament tear) are not ready for selection. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Emre Kılınç, Alper Efe Pazar, Franck Atoen and Muhammet Özbaskıcı.

It’s our belief that Kırmızı Şimşekler will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Okan Kocuk, Zeki Yavru, Toni Borevkovic, Rick Van Drongelen, Soner Gonul, Antoine Makoumbou, Yalcin Kayan, Tanguy Coulibaly, Carlo Holse, Elayis Tavsan and Marius Mouandilmadji.

✨ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Samsunspor could find themselves struggling to hit the back of the net against this Çaykur Rizespor outfit who we think might well win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a 1-0 winning margin for Çaykur Rizespor at full-time.

Should be a close one.

Peter Guest, 16:03 09/04/2026