The match, which will be held at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, will start at 23.00 GMT. Spanish referee Alejandro Hernandez will referee the match. Jose Naranjo and Diego Sanchez Rojo will be assistants to Hernandez. The fourth referee of the match will be Jose Luis Munuera. Carlos del Cerro Grande from Spain will be the VAR in the match, and Robert Schröder from Germany will be the AVAR.
The yellow-red team, which had 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats in the remaining 7 competitions in the UEFA Champions League, collected 10 points. Galatasaray ranked 17th, passing the Azerbaijani representative Karabakh, which ranked 18th on average.
Manchester City, on the other hand, gained 13 points with 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. The Blues entered the week in 11th place in terms of goal difference.
Galatasaray will try to get into the top 16
The yellow-red team will try to finish the 36-team league stage in the top 16 by winning against Manchester City.
Unless there is a big surprise, the yellow-red team, which will be in the top 24 in the UEFA Champions League, will fight for the top seed in the play-offs. Galatasaray will be in the top 16 if they win tomorrow’s match.
If Galatasaray completes the league stage in the top 16, it will have a significant advantage in the play-offs as the seed.
Yellow-red team full squad
Galatasaray will have a full squad for a match after a long break.
Wilfried Singo, who last played for the yellow-red team in the Trendyol Super League match against Gençlerbirliği on November 22, 2025, is expected to return to the squad with the match tomorrow. The Ivory Coast defender, who has been away from the fields for more than two months, missed 13 official matches during this period. Arda Ünyay, who missed the last 3 official matches of Galatasaray due to his injury, is also expected to be included in the squad.
In the yellow-red team, Ismail Jakobs, Davinson Sanchez and Mario Lemina are on the yellow card penalty limit. If these players are penalized with a yellow card in tomorrow’s match, they will not be able to play in the next match.
Noa Lang and Yaser Asprilla, whom Galatasaray added to its squad in the interim transfer, will not be able to play in tomorrow’s match due to the status.
Osimhen has his eyes on the record
If Nigerian star Victor Osimhen scores a goal in tomorrow’s match, he will be the player who scores the most goals in European cups in the yellow-red jersey.
The 26-year-old star striker, who spent his second season in the Yellow-Reds, scored 12 goals in 12 European Cup competitions.
Leaving behind Mario Jardel and Gheorghe Hagi, who scored 11 goals each, Osimhen is at the top with Milan Baros and Shabani Nonda, who scored 12 goals each, in the list of foreigners who scored the most goals in Europe in Galatasaray’s history.
If Victor Osimhen scores one more goal in the European cups with Galatasaray, he will break the record and become the sole owner of the top.
Special match for İlkay and Sane
Galatasaray’s star players İlkay Gündoğan and Leroy Sane will play against their former teams.
İlkay, who joined the yellow-red team at the beginning of this season, played for 8 seasons in Manchester City, to which he was transferred in 2016, in 2 different periods (2016-2023 and 2024-2025). Sane, on the other hand, played in the English team for 4 seasons between 2016-2020. Both players will play against their former teams, where they had great success under coach Pep Guardiola.
İlkay won 1 UEFA Champions League, 5 Premier League titles, two English Cups and English Super Cups, and 4 English League Cups with Manchester City. The experienced football player succeeded in scoring 65 goals in 358 official matches with the blue jersey.
Sane, on the other hand, won two Premier League, English League Cup and English Super Cup each. The German football player played in 135 official competitions for Manchester City and scored 39 times.
There are very important shortcomings in the home team
8 important players in Manchester City will not be able to play against Galatasaray.
Spanish midfielder Rodri, who received a red card in the Bodo/Glimt match in the 7th week of the UEFA Champions League, will not be able to take the field in tomorrow’s match.
In the “Blues”, Josko Gvardiol, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Nico Gonzalez, Mateo Kovacic, Oscar Bobb and Savinho are not expected to play against Galatasaray tomorrow due to their injuries. Marc Guehi and Antoine Semenyo, who were acquired in the interim transfer, will not be able to enter the squad due to the status.
In the English team, Nico O’Reilly will be suspended for the next UEFA Champions League match if he receives a yellow card in tomorrow’s match.
Top 8 chances for Manchester City
The British representative must win the Galatasaray match in order to finish the regular season in the top 8 in the “Giants League”.
Pep Guardiola’s students, who collected 13 points in the remaining 7 competitions in the UEFA Champions League, are in 11th place. Even if Manchester City wins the match tomorrow, there is a possibility that they will remain outside the top 8 on goal difference.
The teams that will finish the league stage in the top 8 will pass the play-offs without playing a match and advance directly to the round of 16.
Won once in 6 matches in Premier League and Champions League
Manchester City won only once in 6 matches in the English Premier League and UEFA Champions League.
The “Blues”, who have been out of form lately, had 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat in the last 5 matches in the Premier League. The English team was defeated by Norwegian representative Bodo/Glimt in the only match in the UEFA Champions League.
Haaland did not start 2026 well
Manchester City’s Norwegian star Erling Haaland’s recent out-of-form appearance draws attention.
Haaland, who played in 32 official competitions this season, showed an impressive performance by scoring the net 26 times in total. Although the 25-year-old center forward has had a good season, he has been having trouble scoring lately.
Haaland, who played in 8 official competitions in 2026, was able to celebrate a goal only once. The star football player, who could score 1 goal in 5 matches in the English Premier League, could not contribute to the score in one match each in the UEFA Champions League, English Cup and English League Cup.
Phil Foden, who changed the score 10 times in Manchester City’s 31 official matches this season and became the team’s second top scorer, could not find the net in 10 official matches in the last 1.5 months.
