The match, which will be held at MEDAŞ Konya Metropolitan Stadium, will start at 20.00.
The yellow-red team, which had 17 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat in the remaining 22 weeks of the league, collected 55 points. Galatasaray entered the week as the leader, 3 points ahead of its closest follower, Fenerbahçe.
Konyaspor, which did not have a good season, collected 20 points with 4 wins, 8 draws and 10 defeats. The green-white team ranked 14th before the 23rd week.
Galatasaray won the match between the two teams in Istanbul in the 6th week of the season, 3-1.
Abdülkerim Bardakcı is on the yellow card penalty limit
Galatasaray’s Abdülkerim Bardakcı is on the yellow card penalty limit.
The experienced defender will not be able to play in the match against Corendon Alanyaspor in the 24th week if he receives a yellow card in tomorrow’s match.
Unbeaten in 10 league matches
Galatasaray is undefeated in the last 10 matches in the Super League.
The yellow-reds, who suffered their only defeat this season by losing 1-0 to Kocaelispor, which they hosted in the 12th week, won 8 times in the next 10 competitions. “Cimbom” also had 2 draws in this period.
In the said period, Galatasaray defeated Gençlerbirliği, Samsunspor, Nakit.com Antalyaspor, Kasımpaşa, Mısırlı.com.tr Fatih Karagümrük, Zecorner Kayserispor, Çaykur Rizespor and ikas Eyüpspor, and drew with Fenerbahçe and Gaziantep FK.
The yellow-red team scored 9 goals while scoring the opponent’s net 30 times in these matches.
Scored 20 goals in the last 5 official matches
Galatasaray, which has recently come to the fore with its goalscoring identity, has scored 20 times in its last 5 official matches.
In the said period, the yellow-reds first defeated Zecorner Kayserispor 4-0 in the league match on February 1, and then beat Trendyol 1st League team İstanbulspor 3-1 in the Ziraat Turkish Cup, Çaykur Rizespor 3-0 in the league and Ikas Eyüpspor 5-1, respectively.
Finally, Galatasaray, which beat Juventus 5-2 in the first match of the UEFA Champions League last 16 play-off round, scored 20 goals in total and conceded only 4 goals.
Super League’s top scorer team
Galatasaray stands out as the top scorer team among the 18 teams in the Trendyol Super League.
The yellow-red team, which scored 55 times in 22 competitions in the league, was at the top with a 4-goal difference over its closest follower, Fenerbahçe. In terms of defense, “Cimbom” is the team that has conceded the fewest goals, with 15 goals conceded, after Göztepe (12).
Galatasaray is having the season with the highest goal average in league history, as of the 22nd match, with +40 average.
Icardi will try to get closer to the top in the top scorer race
Argentinian star Mauro Icardi, who scored a “hat-trick” in the last league match for the yellow-red team, will fight to get close to the top in the top scorer race.
Icardi, who recovered from a long injury and has just returned to form, scored 3 goals in the match against Ikas Eyüpspor in the 22nd week of the league. The 33-year-old center forward, who has reached a total of 13 goals in the league, will try to catch up with Trabzonspor’s Paul onuachu, who is at the top with 16 goals, and RAMS Başakşehir’s Eldor Shomurodov, who is at the top with 15 goals.
Osimhen is pursuing a new series
Galatasaray’s Nigerian star Victor Osimhen aims to achieve a new goal-scoring streak in the Super League.
This season, Osimhen played in 23 official matches with the yellow-red jersey, 16 in the Super League and 7 in the UEFA Champions League. The 27-year-old center forward, who scored 9 times in the league, changed the score 6 times in the “Giants League”.
The star striker shook the net once each in the matches of Nakit.com Antalyaspor, Mısırlı.com.tr Fatih Karagümrük, Zecorner Kayserispor and Çaykur Rizespor, in the process that started with the match against Samsunspor in the Trendyol Super League in the 15th week, in which he scored 2 goals. Osimhen, whose 5-game goal scoring streak in the league ended with the ikas Eyüpspor match in the 22nd week, will try to start a new streak in the Konyaspor match.
Buruk has never lost to his colleague Palut
Galatasaray Coach Okan Buruk did not lose against his colleague İlhan Palut, who coaches Konyaspor.
Buruk competed against Göztepe, Konyaspor and Çaykur Rizespor, coached by İlhan Palut, 2 times under Başakşehir and 6 times under Galatasaray. The experienced coach got a win and a draw in 2 matches against Başakşehir and Palut’s Göztepe.
As the head of the yellow-red team, Okan Buruk competed against Konyaspor, coached by İlhan Palut, once and against Çaykur Rizespor, five times. Okan Buruk’s students won all of the matches in question.
While Buruk’s teams scored 22 times in the matches in question, Palut’s students were able to celebrate goals 5 times.
The star of the attacking players shines in Galatasaray
The high performance of the attacking players in the yellow-red team attracts attention.
Galatasaray, which strengthened its squad with 5 players during the interim transfer during the good season, reached a deep and wide squad structure. In the attack, “Cimbom” received serious scoring contributions from Barış Alper Yılmaz, Yunus Akgün, Leroy Sane, Noa Lang and Gabriel Sara, in addition to Mauro Icardi and Victor Osimhen.
Considering the official matches this season, Galatasaray received 15 goal contributions from Icardi and Osimhen, Barış Alper and Yunus scored eight goals each, Sara and Sane scored six times, Eren Elmalı scored 4 times, Davinson Sanchez, Ahmed Kutucu, Lucas Torreira, İlkay Gündoğan and Noa Lang scored twice each, and Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Roland Sallai and Sacha Boey scored once each.
Afterwards, he will go to Juventus away.
Galatasaray will face Juventus away in the UEFA Champions League after the TÜMOSAN Konyaspor match.
Continuing their leadership in Trendyol Super League and Ziraat Turkish Cup, the yellow-reds continue their way at full speed in the UEFA Champions League. After the match against Konyaspor, Galatasaray will be the guest of Italy’s representative Juventus on Wednesday, February 25th.
“Cimbom” will try to get its name into the last 16 rounds by getting a good result against the Torino team, which it beat 5-2 on its field.
Konyaspor has not won in the league for 12 matches
Konya representative could not experience the joy of victory in the last 12 matches in the Super League.
The green-whites, who got their last 3 points in the league by beating Gençlerbirliği 2-1 away in the 10th week, experienced six draws and defeats in the following 12 matches.
The last 5 matches of Konya representative at home ended in a draw.
TÜMOSAN Konyaspor left with 1 point from its last 5 home matches.
The green-whites, who had their last victory in front of their fans by beating RAMS Başakşehir with a score of 2-1 in the 7th week, could not win the next 8 matches. The Konya representative, who was defeated by Kocaelispor, Beşiktaş and Samsunspor respectively on the field, drew the matches against Account.com Antalyaspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Zecorner Kayserispor, ikas Eyüpspor and Göztepe.
Berkan will play against his former team
Berkan Kutlu, who Konyaspor added to its squad during the interim transfer, will play against his former team Galatasaray.
