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Fenerbahce vs Galatasaray Prediction & Betting tips
On the 26th round of the Turkish Süper Lig, two big Istanbul derbies are on the program this weekend. The first Derby deny the two teams of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray Istanbul this Saturday. Sunday sees the second derby of the Basaksehir and Besiktas Istanbul rivals. Fenerbahce will be home-defeated in the return leg against Galatasaray and will have the chance to reduce the six-point deficit to three points by beating the championship leader and perhaps even a place in the event of a defeat by Basaksehir or Besiktas Make up the table.
Anyway, Fenerhahce has the opportunity in this game to take a big step forward in the fight for the championship, which is the stated goal under Aykut Kocaman. Galatasaray, on the other hand, is challenged to defend the lead in the table. The lead over the direct pursuers Besiktas and Basaksehir is only scant three points. Although the first place could be held in the event of a defeat against Fenerbahce, at least because of the better goal ratio, the race for the championship in this case would be much more open again. In the best case, Basaksehir and Besiktas steal each other’s points with a draw and Galatasaray would thus be able to move the gap with the pursuers to a staggering nine points in the case of Fenerbahce and five points each to Basaksehir and Besiktas. In this scenario, Galatasaray’s championship in the Süper Lig would certainly be a very decisive step closer.
Fenerbahce:
The two heavy league and cup games against Besiktas Istanbul had recently cost Fenerbahce a lot of energy. This ultimately resulted in the 2: 3 defeat to Akhisarspor in the last home game. After a one-week recovery period, they finally regrouped Malatyaspor in the Süper Lig away with a clear victory away from home. Until the last two defeats against Besiktas and Akhisarpsor they had a long series of 21 consecutive games without defeat behind. With the last victory, Fenerbahce returns to this successful track. In any case, the offensive of Fererbahce was regularly successful with goals, especially the Brazilian Giuliano, who has already scored twelve goals this season for the club. Despite losing to Besiktas and Akhisarspor and the draw in the cup, Fenerbahce scored a total of five goals in these games. In the game forward, the men of Aykut Kocaman are thus regularly accurate. If the defensive is awake and well rested, Galatasaray may have a hard time. However, the two center-backs Köybasi and Güveli are still injured, which limits the options in the defense slightly.
Galatasaray:
After a 1: 2 away defeat Galatasaray could now win four Süper Lig games in a row relatively confidently, even if you had to run behind the relegation candidate Konyapsor for a long time with a backlog in the last match after a very early goal. The impending defeat was turned into a narrow victory only in the last third of the game by appropriate effort. At least the team of Fatih Terim showed nerves here more than once, but also at the decisive moment his class and the absolute will to win. After the high wins from the previous encounters against Karabükspor and also Bursaspor they were then started a bit too negligent. Anyway, it is to be assumed that Terim will not allow his team such negligence against Fenerbahce. However, Galatasaray may appear as the league leaders and offensively strongest team in the league quite with appropriate self-confidence.
Away, Galatasaray should be careful, as they lost at least two out of the last four competitive matches in opposing stadiums. In the Süper Lig you also lost the important games against Basaksehir, Besiktas and Trabzonspor very clear. As a result, Galatasaray is only seventh in the away table. Galatasaray reveals a certain degree of outward weakness, which has just come to bear in Derbys this season. Fatih Terim will have to rely on his strong offensive, which has scored the most goals in the Süper Lig by far, especially with Bafetimbi Gomis, who leads with 25 goals from 24 games the league table scorer by a wide margin.
Fenerbahce vs Galatasaray head to head matches
22.10.17 SL Galatasaray Fenerbahce 0 : 0
23.04.17 SL Galatasaray Fenerbahce 0 : 1
20.11.16 SL Fenerbahce Galatasaray 2 : 0
26.05.16 CUP Galatasaray Fenerbahce 1 : 0
13.04.16 SL Galatasaray Fenerbahce 0 : 0