Trabzonspor will try to turn a four-match league winning run into five today when it hosts Gaziantep FK at Papara Park in the Süper Lig. The match starts at 16.00 and will be shown live on beIN Sports 1, with Abdullah Buğra Taşkınsoy in charge.
The timing matters because Trabzonspor has found rhythm under Thomas Reis and arrives with momentum that has changed the mood around the side. Gaziantep FK, by contrast, comes in with 8 points from 9 league matches and sits in 15th place, a position shaped by 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. The club’s last league victory came in the 4th league week, when it beat Göztepe 4-2 away, and it has not won in the five matches since.
That run has been costly. Gaziantep FK drew 0-0 with Fenerbahçe in the middle of the skid, then lost 2-0 to Kocaelispor, 3-0 to Arca Çorum FK, 2-1 to İstanbul Başakşehir and 3-1 to Erzurumspor FK. In those five matches without a win, it scored 2 goals and conceded 10, and it failed to take a point from its last four league games.
Trabzonspor also has problems of its own, even if the standings make it look more comfortable. Franculino Dju, Aral Şimşir, Okay Yokuşlu, Arseniy Batagov, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Cihan Çanak and Onuralp Çevikkan are all unavailable, yet the team still has enough momentum to press for a fifth straight league win. That is why Thomas Reis is part of the frame around this match: his side has already won four in a row, and the next result will either extend that streak or slow it down.
Gaziantep FK faces a much steeper climb. Myenty Abena is out through yellow-card suspension after the Erzurumspor FK game, while Fuat Bavuk, Nazım Sangare, Ulrich Meleke, Sontje Hansen, Kacper Tobiasz and Ogün Özçiçek are also missing through injury. The broader record offers little encouragement either: Gaziantep FK has not beaten Trabzonspor in 14 Süper Lig matches, with Trabzonspor winning 9 and 5 ending level. Away from home against this opponent, Gaziantep FK has lost 6 of 7 league games and drawn 1.
The next whistle matters because it will tell whether Trabzonspor’s form is strong enough to survive the absences or whether Gaziantep FK can finally interrupt a long series that has worked against it for years. For Gaziantep FK, that means trying to leave Papara Park with something more than another reminder of how hard this matchup has been.
