Eyüpspor return home on Monday evening needing a response, and they need it fast. Samsunspor are the visitors for this Trendyol Süper Lig meeting on 13 April 2026, with the two clubs arriving from very different spots in the table. Eyüpspor sit 17th on 22 points and are staring at the wrong end of the season, while Samsunspor are 7th on 36 and still have something tangible to chase as the campaign runs down.
That gap matters. Eyüpspor are in survival mode, but their recent run has dragged them deeper into trouble, and a home game against a top-half side isn’t the sort of fixture that usually hands out mercy. Samsunspor, under Thorsten Fink, have shown enough quality to stay in the mix for a strong finish, even if their form has been a bit jagged. They also come in with the edge in this matchup, having won three of the last four meetings and taken the last two.
There’s another layer here too. Samsunspor’s season has been shaped by a European run, including that Conference League knockout tie with Rayo Vallecano, so they’ve had to balance domestic and continental demands. Eyüpspor have had no such distraction. They’ve simply been trying to stop the slide. That’s not been easy. Far from it.
Eyüpspor Form & Analysis
Eyüpspor’s last month has been bleak, and there’s no point dressing it up. They were beaten 3-0 away at Antalyaspor on 5 April, and the margin could have been even worse. Earlier came a 1-0 home loss to Trabzonspor, a 1-0 defeat at Kasımpaşa, another 1-0 reverse at home to Kocaelispor, and a 1-0 cup loss to Konyaspor in Group B before that. Their only point in the run came from a goalless draw at Göztepe on 28 February. Since then, it’s been six games without a win and, more starkly, six games without scoring a league goal.
That last detail is the killer. Eyüpspor aren’t just losing, they’re running out of ways to hurt opponents. Their season total of 19 goals is the league’s sort of number that gets teams dragged into a scrap, and their home record explains why. At their own ground they’ve managed only three wins, four draws and seven defeats, with 11 goals scored and 19 conceded. That’s a poor return. You don’t need a microscope to see the problem.
The recent numbers from the Antalyaspor defeat were ugly as well. Eyüpspor managed only 0.32 xG, didn’t register a single shot on target, and ended up facing six efforts on target at the other end. They’ve also gone five league games without a clean sheet, and in five straight matches they’ve been the side conceding first. That tells you everything about the mood: they’re chasing games before they’ve even settled into them. A team in that state doesn’t usually respond with fluency. It usually looks tight, frustrated, and a bit short on conviction.
Samsunspor Form & Analysis
Samsunspor arrive with a very different shape to their season, even if the last week wasn’t kind. They were thrashed 4-1 away at Çaykur Rizespor on 9 April, a game that spiralled badly and included an early red card for Thorsten Fink. Before that they drew 2-2 at home with Konyaspor, which felt like points dropped after leading twice in the contest. The club’s better results are still close enough to memory, though. They beat Kayserispor 2-1 at home on 15 March, then went to Madrid and beat Rayo Vallecano 1-0 in the Conference League knockout phase. That was a proper away win. Strong, disciplined, grown-up. Then came the 1-3 home loss to Rayo in the return leg, and the trend has been a touch uneven ever since.
Even with that wobble, Samsunspor’s overall profile is healthier than Eyüpspor’s by a long way. They’ve scored 32 league goals and sit inside the top eight for a reason. Their away record is respectable too: four wins, five draws and five losses, with 19 goals scored and 22 conceded on the road. That’s not dominant, but it’s competitive, and it’s the kind of away record that keeps them in the upper half of the table. They don’t have to be brilliant to get something. They just need to be organised and sharper than the hosts.
The broader attacking pattern also leans their way. Samsunspor have been involved in plenty of open games, and they’ve scored in most of them. Their recent away performance at Rizespor was messy, but they still generated 1.65 xG and produced 15 shots, which shows they weren’t starved of chances. The issue was the defensive collapse. On a more normal night, against a side as blunt as Eyüpspor, that sort of attacking output is often enough. The flip side? If Fink’s men are careless again, they can give an already shaky home side a route back in. That won’t be easy for Eyüpspor to exploit, but it’s there.
Head-to-Head
Samsunspor have owned this fixture lately. They beat Eyüpspor 2-1 in the cup on 24 December 2025, won 1-0 in the league at home on 9 November 2025, and had already thumped them 3-0 in Samsun back on 4 May 2025. Eyüpspor’s one bright spot in the recent set came at home in December 2024, when they won 3-0. Since then, though, Samsunspor have taken control.
That matters because this hasn’t been a cagey, low-scoring series. Four of the last five meetings have gone over 2.5 goals, and Samsunspor have scored first in four of the last five. Eyüpspor haven’t kept a clean sheet in three straight head-to-heads. So while the two clubs know each other well, the recent pattern is clear enough. Samsunspor have tended to find the openings, and Eyüpspor have struggled to hold the line.
We Predict: Away Win
We’re backing Samsunspor to win at 4/5 here. It’s the cleanest call on the card. Eyüpspor are in rotten form, they haven’t scored in six league matches, and they’ve lost five of their last six overall. Samsunspor aren’t perfect, but they’ve got the better squad balance, the better league position, and the better away numbers. That’s enough. It usually is.
The 1-2 correct score looks the likeliest outcome. Eyüpspor should make some sort of fight of it at home, especially because they’re at the point where anything less than a reaction feels dangerous. Still, their attacking output has been far too thin to trust, and Samsunspor have already shown in this fixture that they know how to pick them apart. If you wanted a slightly safer angle, Samsunspor on the draw no bet line would be worth a look, but the away win is the stronger play.
