17.02.2025 19:01
Galatasaray will face Çaykur Rizespor in the 24th week of the Trendyol Super League. The match, which will start at 20:00, has announced its starting lineups.
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Galatasaray will visit Çaykur Rizespor in the 24th week of the Trendyol Super League. The closing match of the week will take place at Çaykur Didi Stadium and will start at 20:00. The referee for the match will be Zorbay Küçük. The VAR referee will be German referee Johann Pfeifer. The match will be broadcast live on beIN SPORTS 1.
STATUS OF THE TWO TEAMS
The yellow-red team, which has achieved 19 victories and 3 draws in 22 matches played in the league, continues its journey unbeaten. Galatasaray, which enters the week at the top with 60 points, sits in the leadership seat, 3 points ahead of its closest rival Fenerbahçe. The blue-greens, on the other hand, have experienced 8 victories, 3 draws, and 11 defeats in 22 matches. The Black Sea representative entered the week in 11th place with 27 points. In the match played in Istanbul in the 5th week of the season, the yellow-reds won 5-0.
STARTING 11s
Rizespor: Tarık Çetin, Taha Şahin, Mocsi, Alikulov, Hojer, Mithat, Papanikolaou, Abdülkadir, Olawoyin, Akintola, Sowe.
Galatasaray: Muslera, Cuesta, Sanchez, Abdülkerim, Frankowski, Torreira, Sara, Barış Alper, Mertens, Ahmed Kutucu, Osimhen.
4 ABSENCES IN GALATASARAY
4 players in the yellow-red team will not be able to play in this match due to injuries. Injured players Ismail Jakobs, Yunus Akgün, Alvaro Morata, and Mauro Icardi will not be able to wear the jersey against Çaykur Rizespor.
SUSPENDED PLAYERS RETURNING
4 players of Galatasaray, who were suspended in the match against Adana Demirspor, will regain their jerseys in the match against Çaykur Rizespor. Fernando Muslera, Lucas Torreira, Abdülkerim Bardakcı, and Barış Alper Yılmaz, who received yellow card penalties in the 23rd week of the league, will compete against Çaykur Rizespor. Additionally, Ahmed Kutucu in the yellow-red team is on the yellow card suspension threshold. If the young player receives a card, he will be suspended for the derby against Fenerbahçe in the 25th week.
NEW TRANSFERS MAY PLAY
4 players that Galatasaray added to its squad during the mid-season transfer period may play if head coach Okan Buruk gives them the opportunity. Polish right-back Przemyslaw Frankowski, who joined from France's Lens, national left-back Eren Elmalı transferred from Trabzonspor, and young center-back Arda Ünyay acquired from MKE Ankaragücü are eligible to play in the Çaykur Rizespor match. Gabonese midfielder Mario Lemina, who was part of the squad in the interrupted match against Adana Demirspor in the 23rd week, is also waiting to wear the jersey for the first time in the yellow-red team, which he joined for the second time.
UNDEFEATED IN 23 MATCHES IN THE LEAGUE
Galatasaray has not lost in its last 23 matches in the Super League. The last defeat in the league was experienced by Okan Buruk's students in the 37th week of last season in the home match against Fenerbahçe. They have not been defeated in 1 match last season and 22 matches this season. Galatasaray achieved 20 victories and 3 draws in these matches.
SCORED IN 31 CONSECUTIVE MATCHES
Galatasaray has found the net in its last 31 official matches. The last official match in which they did not score was on June 27, 2024, in the UEFA Champions League qualifying playoff round second leg against Swiss representative Young Boys. The yellow-red team scored in the subsequent 20 Super League matches, 9 UEFA Europa League matches, and 2 Ziraat Turkey Cup matches. During this period, Galatasaray scored a total of 53 goals in the league, including 2 from default victories, 20 in the UEFA Europa League, and 6 in the Turkey Cup.
NO GOALS CONCEDED IN LAST 3 MATCHES IN THE LEAGUE
Galatasaray has kept a clean sheet in its last 3 matches in the Super League. The yellow-red team, which could not show the desired performance in defense compared to previous seasons, won the match against TÜMOSAN Konyaspor in the 21st week and the match against Gaziantep FK in the 22nd week with a score of 1-0. Finally, Galatasaray, which was leading 1-0 and the match against Adana Demirspor was interrupted in the 30th minute, won the match 3-0 by default, extending its clean sheet streak to 3 matches. The yellow-reds, who have not conceded a goal in 3 consecutive league matches for the first time this season, will fight to extend their streak to 4 matches.
46TH ENCOUNTER IN THE LEAGUE
Galatasaray and Çaykur Rizespor will face each other for the 46th time in the Super League. Of the 45 league matches played between the two sides since the 1979-1980 season, the yellow-reds won 31, the blue-greens won 7, and 7 matches ended in a draw. The yellow-red team scored 111 goals, while the green-blues managed to score 46 goals. In the last match played between the two teams in the first half of the season, Galatasaray won 5-0.
MATCHES IN RIZE
Galatasaray and Çaykur Rizespor will meet for the 23rd time in Rize in the Super League. In matches played in Rize, Galatasaray has won 14 times, the home team has won 5 times, and 3 matches ended in a draw. In Rize, Galatasaray scored 47 goals, while Çaykur Rizespor responded with 26 goals.
GALATASARAY WON THE LAST 5 MATCHES
The yellow-red team won the last 5 matches played between the two teams in the Super League. Galatasaray finished its last 5 matches against the Black Sea representative with scores of 3-2, 4-2, 1-0, 6-2, and 5-0. In these matches, Galatasaray scored 19 goals and conceded 6 goals.
DIFFERENT SCORES
Galatasaray achieved its largest victory against Çaykur Rizespor in league matches with a score of 5-0 in the 1987-1988 season and in the first half of this season in Istanbul. Çaykur Rizespor, on the other hand, achieved its largest victory against Galatasaray with a score of 2-0. Meanwhile, in the 2001-2002 season, Galatasaray won the match in Rize with a score of 6-3. This match, in which the nets were shaken a total of 9 times, is recorded as the highest-scoring match among the 45 matches played between the two teams. Furthermore, Galatasaray has scored in 42 of the 45 league matches played against Çaykur Rizespor, losing 3 matches in which they did not score away.
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