Çorum FK vs Eyüpspor Prediction: Defensive Discipline Points to a 0-0 Stalemate

Çorum FK host Eyüpspor on 6 September 2026 in Süper Lig Matchweek 4. Çorum, in their first ever top flight season after coming through the 2025/26 TFF 1. Lig play offs, sit 16th with one point from a draw and two defeats, whereas Eyüpspor are 14th with three points from one win and two losses. Both sides are one bad run from a relegation conversation before October.

Uğur Uçar and Özhan Pulat have no managerial record against each other yet. Uçar spent time as an assistant at Eyüpspor before taking charge at Çorum on 17 February 2026, replacing Hüseyin Eroğlu, so he may have some feel for how Pulat's side operates, though Pulat only took over on 29 June 2026, replacing Atila Gerin and his influence on the squad's shape is still fairly new.

Çorum's last three games show a team still finding their level. They drew 2-2 with Galatasaray on 14 August, equalising twice and creating chances through transitions but conceded eight goals across the following two fixtures: a 0-1 defeat to Kasımpaşa on 22 August and a 2-6 battering by Beşiktaş on 31 August. Eyüpspor, meanwhile, lost their first two before a 2-1 win over Alanyaspor on 30 August gave them their first three points, with Zak Jules scoring late against more accommodating opposition.

Çorum are without Alexandros Kyziridis, suspended after his red card against Galatasaray. He was their primary outlet on the right flank and his absence leaves them with less variety in how they attack wide areas. Cengiz Ünder is fit, with Ylber Ramadani anchoring midfield and Alexandre Penetra alongside Hrvoje Smolčić at centre back. Eyüpspor have Ahmed Abdullahi listed as a doubt through injury, leaving them with no one to hold the ball with their back to goal. Konrad Michalak, David Costa and Bilal Boutobba are the three expected to create from second positions rather than lead the line, while Jules, who won the game with a late header against Alanyaspor, is the danger at dead balls.

Both sides use a 4-2-3-1 and the absences push them both toward caution. Without Kyziridis, Çorum's width is reduced, so Ramadani will likely sit deeper to recycle possession while Ünder looks for pockets between the lines. Eyüpspor's double pivot can sit in front of the back four and invite Çorum on, waiting for the right moment to thread balls through to Michalak or Costa on the break.

If Ramadani wins the physical contests and Çorum can get the ball into Ünder's feet quickly, they can stretch Eyüpspor horizontally, though without Kyziridis they will have to do it largely through Ünder finding space centrally. If Eyüpspor's double pivot screens that well, Boutobba is the likeliest runner behind the defensive line. Penetra and Smolčić will need to track Michalak drifting inside, while Jules is a problem Çorum's defence needs to manage from every dead ball. Abdullahi's absence leaves Eyüpspor without anyone to hold the ball and bring others into play, so their most realistic path to a goal is absorbing Çorum's possession phases and hitting them before they reset.

Çorum have won two of the last three meetings between these sides, scoring six goals to Eyüpspor's three. The most recent was an Eyüpspor 2-3 win away in October 2023, before that, Çorum won 1-0 in March 2024 and neither game was open or free-scoring.

Jules getting a late winner against Alanyaspor already shows what Eyüpspor can produce from dead balls and Penetra and Smolčić will need to be disciplined in the air to contain him. Çorum can threaten deliveries into the box through Ünder but without Kyziridis there is less variety in how they attack those situations. Çorum are also chasing their first home win in the top flight, a chase that tends to produce cautious football rather than open, aggressive play and they have conceded first in both of their defeats this season, which suggests they may be susceptible to the same pattern at home.

This one finishes 0-0. The absences of Kyziridis and Abdullahi strip both attacks of the two players most capable of making something from nothing in the final third and without them Çorum will largely depend on Ünder finding space centrally against a side the head to head record suggests will not open up.