Created Date: December 22, 2025 07:54
Galatasaray hosted Kasımpaşa at home in the 17th week of the Super League. The yellow-reds left the match with a 3-0 victory with goals from Yunus Akgün, Gabriel Sara and Mauro Icardi. Another name that came to the fore with the assist he made for Galatasaray was Barış Alper Yılmaz. Hürriyet’s master writers Mehmet Ayan and Uğur Meleke evaluated Galatasaray, which finished the first half of the Super League as the leader.
In the 17th week of the Super League, Galatasaray hosted Kasımpaşa at home. Galatasaray won the match at RAMS Park with a score of 3-0.
The goals that brought Galatasaray the victory were scored by Yunus Akgün in the 10th minute, Gabriel Sara in the 82nd minute and Mauro Icardi in the 88th minute.
Mauro Icardi, who scored the last goal in Galatasaray, reached 60 goals in total in the league and became the yellow-reds’ top scorer foreign player in the history of the league.
Lucas Torreira, who received a yellow card in the 68th minute for the yellow-reds, was suspended in the league match against Gaziantep FK.
After this result, Galatasaray got its third consecutive victory in the league, rose to 42 points and finished the first half of the league as the leader. Kasımpaşa, whose winless win in the league increased to 4 matches, remained at 15 points.
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Galatasaray will host Gaziantep FK at home in the next week of the league. The yellow-reds will face Trabzonspor in the Super Cup on January 5. Kasımpaşa will host Antalyaspor at home in the next week of the league.
HÜRRİYET WRITERS EVALUATED THE WINNER
Hürriyet’s master writers Mehmet Ayan and Uğur Meleke commented on the yellow-reds’ victory against Kasımpaşa in their columns.
UĞUR MELEKE: HE WAITED UNTIL 82 FOR THE LONG SHOT!
It was another week when we felt the power imbalance in the Super League, the income gap, and the disappearance of the middle class in our bones. Antalyaspor’s performance in Kocaeli on Friday night was disastrous. We all observed together how weak Eyüp teams were the day before and Karagümrük and Kasımpaşa teams yesterday.
Kasımpaşa has created entertaining teams to watch in the Super League several times in the last 10 seasons. Just last season, they were a threatening team with Yasin scoring long balls from the defense, the striker trio Gökhan-Aytaç-Hajradinovic in the center, and Da Costa as the forward. Hajradinovic suffered a long-term injury. Ben Ouanes is in the African Cup. Others dispersed to various clubs
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Kasımpaşa, the team we are currently watching, is a one-sided team with a colorless midfield and pinning its offensive hopes solely on the runner Gueye-Diabate-Fall trio. As far as I saw yesterday, their other plan was to wait for the ball to reach Kazımcan and put pressure on him while Galatasaray was setting up a game.
He played 75 balls, attempted 13 shots, all from inside the 18, and touched the ball 25 times in the opponent’s penalty area. On the other hand, the number of times Kasımpaşa played the ball in the opponent’s penalty area was 1 (one in words!). Their only shot was the ball that Gueye sent towards the crown in the 1st minute. There was literally only one team on the field. The only question mark in such a match is naturally this: How could Galatasaray not increase the score for so long? Although Kasımpaşa was crowded in defense with its 5-4-1, it looked distant from its rivals, whereas in Seyrantepe.
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SALLAI-YUNUS-SANE TRIANGLE
Barış was again the name that attracted attention with his dribbles on the day when leader Galatasaray concentrated the game completely in the third zone but had to make extra efforts to increase the score. While Barış was backing the left wing of Galatasaray, the trio of Sallai-Yunus-Sane on the right created asymmetry from time to time and found several such positions.
In such a tight game, Galatasaray could be expected to try more shots from distance, and they have important weapons such as İlkay and Yunus in this regard. I think this was the only thing missing from the yellow and red team until Sara solved the lock yesterday in 82.
MEHMET AYAN: LOVE, LOVE, LABOR AND PEACE: IT WAS IMPOSED!
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A fan can only fall in love with a player this much. This love has been granted to very few people.
Article from the stadium – If Emre Belözoğlu had written these lines, he would probably have started with the same judgment sentences:
“As the difference in quality between the teams in the league becomes more evident, the watchability of the matches decreases.”
This is the problem of Emre teacher, Okan teacher, İbrahim Hacıosmanoğlu, Halil Umut Meler, Tedesco, Ertuğrul Doğan. I swear that everyone is uncomfortable, I can’t prove it.
You are looking at the match to see when Galatasaray will score the first goal against Kasımpaşa, which rightfully “kept conceding a goal”, how they will break the lock, and by how many margins the match will end! After Barış Alper Yılmaz brought the ball to Yunus Akgün with a wonderful ball in the style of “MY GOAL IS MY PRESENTATION”, there was talk in the stadium about how many points the first half would end with!
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A TERRIBLE SUPERIORITY
We watched 45 minutes in which G.Saray had the ball (74-26%) except for the 3-4 goal position, the opponent had a terrible (25-1) advantage in the penalty area, two wings such as Sane and Barış were constantly trying to produce, and Yunus was getting used to the number 10 position. (On the other hand, I watched a Torerria and realized what kind of lungs this man has!)
THE SECOND GOAL ENDED THE EXCITEMENT
The expectation going into the second half was no different. The ball will be in Galatasaray again, the opponent will be imprisoned, the continuity of the attack will not end, a set will be established, the opponent will be forced to make a mistake and a goal will be scored. In the 82nd minute, the difference increased to two as a result of Szalai being forced into a mistake by Yunus. There was no “excitement” left in the stands due to Kasımpaşa’s rapid exits, which did not pose any threat anyway.
Final note to the fans… A tribune can only fall in love with a player this much. The love felt for Icardi has been granted to very few football players throughout history. The chant attributed to him until the match started became the melody of this great love. Love is mutual, but love requires effort. Icardi made an effort and reciprocated the love.
