Trabzonspor beat Çaykur Rizespor 2-0 in the Black Sea derby to close the gap with fourth placed Başakşehir to just one point.
Salih Dursun opened the scoring on 28 minutes giving the away side a slender lead going into the half time break.
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Çaykur Rizespor 0 – 2 Trabzonspor
Stadium: Rize Yenişehir
Referee: Mustafa Kamil Abitoğlu, Bülent Gökçü, Adil Sinem
Çaykur Rizespor: Serkan Kırıntılı, Koray Altınay, Viera, Giray Kaçar, Eren Albayrak, Kıvanç Karakaş (min. 82 Ümit Korkmaz), Sylvestre, Sercan Kaya (min. 37 Lafferty), Holosko (min. 59 Obraniak), Deniz Kadah, Kweuke
Trabzonspor: Hakan Arıkan, Salih Dursun, Bosingwa, Uğur Demirok, Yusuf Erdoğan (min. 58 Fatih Atik), Medjani, Özer Hurmacı, Mehmet Ekici, Erkan Zengin (min. 82 Waris), Deniz Yılmaz, Cardozo (min. 53 Mustafa Akbaş)
Goals: min. 28 Salih Dursun, min. 85 Deniz Yılmaz (Trabzonspor)
Yellow Cards: min. 55 Kıvaç Karakaş, min. 83 Giray Kaçar (Çaykur Rizespor) min. 57 Mustafa Akbaş (Trabzonspor)