2023 Turkcell Super Cup finds its owner. Super League champion Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, which won the Turkish Cup, face each other in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Referee Abdulkadir Bitigen will blow the whistle in the match. Bitigen’s assistants will be Erdem Bayık and Mustafa Savranlar. The 4th referee of the match will be Volkan Bayarslan. Emre Malok will take part in VAR.
Second derby in five days
Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe will face each other for the second time in 5 days.
The two teams, which met at Ülker Stadium on Sunday, December 24, in the 18th week of the Trendyol Super League, will compete once again today. The winning team will take the 17th Super Cup to its museum.
The league derby ended 0-0.
Superior in the last 10 derbies
The yellow-reds have dominated the last 10 matches against Fenerbahçe.
In the competitions between the two teams, all in the Super League, Galatasaray could win 4 times and the yellow-dark blue team could win 2. Four derbies ended in draws.
Galatasaray managed to keep a clean sheet in 6 of the matches in question, conceding 6 goals against 12 goals scored.
Possible 11s
Galatasaray: Muslera, Boey, Nelsson, Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Barış Alper Yılmaz, Kerem Demirbay, Torreira, Zaha, Mertens, Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Icardi
Fenerbahce: Livakovic, Osayi-Samuel, Djiku, Oosterwolde, Ferdi, Fred, İsmail, İrfan Can Kahveci, Tadic, Szymanski, Dzeko
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4 missing in Galatasaray
4 players in the yellow-red team will not be able to play.
Injured Colombian defender Davinson Sanchez and Sergio Oliveira, who had surgery due to a torn pectoral muscle, will not be able to take their place on the field in today’s match.
Galatasaray’s Hakim Ziyech and Angelino were not included in the camp squad.
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Okan Buruk’s 4th Fenerbahçe derby
Galatasaray Coach Okan Buruk will play in the Fenerbahçe derby for the 4th time at the head of the yellow-reds.
Buruk, who moved to Galatasaray, from whose infrastructure he trained and achieved great success as a football player, at the beginning of the 2022-2023 season, prepared his team well for the Fenerbahçe derbies.
The yellow-reds, under the management of Buruk, won 3-0 victories in both derbies with Fenerbahçe last season. Buruk’s students drew 0-0 away with their opponent in the league this season.
The yellow-reds, who did not concede a goal in the 3 derbies against Fenerbahçe, scored the opponent’s net 6 times.
Stands out with its defense
Galatasaray stands out as the best defensive team in the Trendyol Super League this season.
The yellow-reds, who were the second team with the best offensive performance by scoring 32 goals in 17 matches in the league, conceded only 9 goals.
“Cimbom”, which did not give its opponents a chance to score in 10 of the 17 matches in the Super League this season, became the team that allowed the fewest goals among the 20 teams with this performance.
All eyes will be on Icardi
Mauro Icardi will be the most important goal scorer of the yellow-reds in the Turkcell Super Cup match.
The Argentine star striker has scored a total of 17 times this season, 12 in the Super League and 5 in the UEFA Champions League.
Icardi, who spent his second season in the yellow-red team, enjoyed scoring goals except for 1 match against the teams that had previously won the league championship.
Mauro Icardi had sent the ball to the net 5 times in 3 Beşiktaş matches, 3 times in 3 Başakşehir matches, 3 times in 2 Trabzonspor matches, and 2 times in 3 Fenerbahçe derbies. The 30-year-old striker could not change the score in the Fenerbahçe derby, which ended 0-0 just 5 days ago.
Kerem Aktürkoğlu, who scored 8 goals in official matches for Galatasaray, Wilfried Zaha, who scored 6 goals, and Dries Mertens and Hakim Ziyech, who scored four times each, also stand out as the names close to the goal.
Fenerbahçe has not been able to score a goal against its opponent for 3 matches
Fenerbahçe, which had 2 wins, 4 losses and 4 defeats in the last 10 derbies it played with Galatasaray, could not score a goal against its opponent in the last 3 matches.
The yellow-dark blue team, who lost both league matches 3-0 last season, left the league match played at home this season with a 0-0 draw.
The yellow-dark blue team scored 6 goals and conceded 12 goals in the last 10 matches against its arch-rival.
Fred can play for Fenerbahçe
In the yellow-dark blue team, Becao and Zajc, who are injured, will not be able to play in the Turkcell Super Cup final.
Serdar Aziz, who left his team alone in the Galatasaray derby played in the league due to the flu, will be on the field if İsmail Kartal gives the chance.
Fenerbahçe’s Brazilian star Fred will be in the starting 11 against Galatasaray.
The Brazilian player, who was suspended for 3 matches after receiving a red card in the Mondihome Kayserispor match, will be able to take his place in the team in Riyadh as he will serve his suspension in the league.
İrfan Can to the right wing, Crespo and Cengiz Ünder to the bench.
Before the Super Cup final, İsmail Kartal is considering making a revision in the squad according to the last match played.
Kartal, aiming to control this region with the Fred-İsmail Yüksek duo due to Fred’s return, plans to assign İrfan Can Kahveci to the right wing.
Crespo and Cengiz Ünder, who are in the first 11 of the league, will also be returning to the bench.
Eyes on the Dzeko-Szymanski-Tadic trio
Fenerbahçe, which scored 44 goals in 17 matches in the Super League, became the league’s top scorer team, while three stars of the team stood out with the goals they scored.
Edin Dzeko, who shares the top scorer race with Mauro Icardi with 12 goals, will be İsmail Kartal’s most important trump card in attack.
Kartal also trusts Szymanski, who scored 8 goals in the league, and Tadic, who scored 7 goals, against Galatasaray.
Three football players scored 27 of the 44 goals in the league this season.
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7th appointment in the Super Cup
The organization, which has been held under the names of the President’s Cup and Super Cup since the 1965-1966 season, brought Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe face to face for the 6th time.
In the matches, three of which were held in the President’s Cup, Fenerbahçe experienced the joy of championship twice and Galatasaray once. In the three Super Cup matches between the two teams, the yellow-red team lifted the cup twice and the yellow-dark blue team lifted the cup once.
Galatasaray won the most
Galatasaray is the team that has won the Super Cup the most times so far.
Although the yellow-red team surrendered to Beşiktaş in the first organization, they reached a happy ending 6 times in the following period. Galatasaray took the Super Cup to its museum in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2019.
Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor won the cup three times each, Beşiktaş twice, Konyaspor and Akhisarspor once each.
The first matches were played in Germany
The first 3 organizations of the Super Cup were held in Germany.
While the first cup match between Beşiktaş and Galatasaray was played in Frankfurt, matches were later played in Cologne and Duisburg, respectively. Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray enjoyed the cup once each in the matches in Germany.
The Super Cup match of the 2020-2021 season was held in Qatar. In the match played at the Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Doha, Beşiktaş became the champion by outdoing Fraport TAV Antalyaspor 4-2 in penalties, in the match whose normal time and overtime ended 1-1.
Tomorrow’s match will be the 5th Super Cup match held abroad.
Fenerbahçe won the first cup in Turkey
After the cup matches in Germany, the match moved to Turkey, and Fenerbahçe lifted the first cup in the country.
In the competition played in Istanbul in 2009, Fenerbahçe won the cup by outdoing Beşiktaş.
Galatasaray took the cup to its museum 5 times in 11 matches held in Istanbul (3), Konya (2), Ankara (2), Erzurum, Kayseri, Manisa and Samsun in Turkey. In the matches played domestically, Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor enjoyed two cups each, and Atiker Konyaspor and Akhisarspor once each.
GALATASARAY-FENERBAHÇE SUPER CUP MATCH WHEN, AT WHAT TIME, ON WHICH CHANNEL?
Galatasaray will face Fenerbahçe in the Turkcell Super Cup match today in Saudi Arabia. The match, which will be held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, will be played at Al-Awwal Park (King Saud University Stadium). The match will start at 20.45 and will be broadcast live on ATV.
2023-12-28 21:05:00
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