21.10.2026 15:00
Galatasaray will face Lille away in the third week of the Champions League. In the yellow-reds, who want to get their first points, Rafael Leao will not be able to play due to injury. Before the match, which will start at 19:45 Turkish time, the probable starting XIs of both teams have been announced. Here are all the details...
Galatasaray will visit France's Lille in the UEFA Champions League. The match will be played at Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq and will be refereed by Slovenian referee Rade Obrenovic. The match will be broadcast in Turkey on TRT 1 and the tabii platform.
BOTH TEAMS ARE CHASING THEIR FIRST POINTS
Galatasaray, who started the competition with a 3-1 defeat away to Sporting, lost 4-1 at home to Barcelona in their second match. Lille, meanwhile, lost 3-2 at home to Real Betis in the first week and then 3-0 away to Arsenal. Both teams, who completed their first two matches without points, will take the field in this encounter to secure their first points.
LEAO WILL NOT PLAY
Rafael Leao will not be available for Galatasaray against Lille due to injury. The Portuguese footballer, who was injured in the 77th minute of the Gençlerbirliği match when he slipped, will miss the chance to play against his former team due to a mild-to-moderate strain in his groin muscle. Leao wore the Lille shirt in the 2018-2019 season.
The situation of Wilfried Singo, who trained with the team throughout the last training session, will become clear today. Kaan Ayhan, Kazımcan Karataş, Arda Ünyay, Eyüp Aydın and Can Armando Güner will also be unable to play in the match because they are not in the squad submitted to UEFA.
PROBABLE LINEUPS
Lille: Berke, Goffi, Ngoy, Ribeiro, Perraud, Mukau, Bentaleb, Andre, Bakwa, Haraldsson, Giroud.
Galatasaray: Uğurcan, Sallai, Sanchez, Abdülkerim, Jakobs, Torreira, Sara, Yunus, Batrakov, Barış Alper, Osimhen.
OSIMHEN AGAINST HIS FORMER TEAM
Galatasaray's Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is preparing to take the field in an official match against his former team Lille for the first time. The star center-forward, who played for the French club in the 2019-2020 season, scored 18 goals in 38 matches during his Lille career.
BERKE ÖZER'S STATUS UNCLEAR AT LILLE
At Lille, Ethan Mbappe will be unable to play due to suspension, and Tiago Santos due to a cruciate ligament injury. Mbappe, who received a straight red card in the Real Betis match, was given a three-match suspension. The situations of Berke Özer, who was injured in the Arsenal match and did not play in the Brest match, and Japanese forward Ayase Ueda will be determined today.
Berke Özer, who plays for the French club, has appeared in eight matches this season, six in Ligue 1 and two in the Champions League. Berke kept a clean sheet in four of these matches and conceded a total of 10 goals. Lille's other Turkish footballer, Başar Önal, has played in four league matches and one European match.
THE FRENCH TEAM IS FOURTH IN THE LEAGUE
Lille, who most recently drew 1-1 at home with Brest in Ligue 1, is in fourth place after seven weeks with four wins, two draws and one defeat. The French representative scored 10 goals in these matches and conceded five.
THEY CONCEDED IN THEIR LAST 10 EUROPEAN MATCHES
Lille conceded in all of their last 10 Champions League matches. The French team, who last kept a clean sheet in the competition in their 1-0 win over Real Madrid on 2 October 2024, has since recorded four wins, two draws and four defeats in their next 10 matches. Lille have also lost their last three Champions League matches.