Altay vs Galatasaray: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Turkey Super Lig
Competition: Sun 24.April
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)

Altay - Galatasaray in Super Lig: Data, line-ups, fixtures, tendencies and reports. Get our comprehensive guide!

Insights:
  • Galatasaray have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This could be an engrossing game with lots of action and bustle as both squads are well renewed since they last played a game. Get ready!

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Altay form and stats

Altay have played 16 Super Lig games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-3-8 (wins-draws-losses).

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Altay, who played 1-1 against Istanbul Basaksehir. That match was also played at this venue Midfielder Gülselam was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.54 (out of ten) in that game. Gülselam scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 32 successful passes (of 38 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Adana Demirspor (1-3).

Altay are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 16 games. On the other hand, Altay have conceded 21 goals.

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Galatasaray form and stats

There's been little loot from Galatasaray's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 16 away games in the Super Lig. Galatasaray only have 3 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 5 draws. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Font, the Galatasaray manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

Galatasaray had fun at their own home last time out, beating Yeni Malatyaspor 2-0. Dervişoğlu and Babel scored. Galatasaray goalie Muslera was high and low in the Yeni Malatyaspor game, contributing seven saves towards the victory. Goalkeeper Muslera got the top player rating of the team with 8.64/10. Muslera topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Galatasaray secured a home win against Fatih Karagumruk with the score 2-0.

The visiting Galatasaray have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 16 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Galatasaray have conceded 29 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have played earlier this season: Galatasaray - Altay 2-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Altay zero wins, one draw and Galatasaray two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

GalatasarayM. Aktürkoğlu
M. Aktürkoğlu
8 goals
AltayD. Bamba
D. Bamba
7 goals
GalatasarayM. Abdallah
M. Abdallah
6 goals

Altay missing players

Galatasaray missing players

Altay Galatasaray
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
33 16 5 Played P 6 16 33
8 5 1 Won W 3 3 12
6 3 1 Drew D 1 5 8
19 8 3 Lost L 2 8 13
34 17 5 Scored S 9 18 44
49 21 7 Conceded C 10 29 47
91% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 94% 97%
73% 75% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 88% 85%
55% 50% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 48%
24% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 27%
9% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 19% 12%
58% 56% 80% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 58%
18% 19% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 12% 21%
33% 31% 20% Failed to Score F T 33% 38% 24%
 
4.3 4.7 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.3 6.3
5.3 4.3 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.1 4.6
2.4 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.4 2.4
4 1 0 Red cards R C 2 3 3
 
9.6 11.1 10.8 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 12.1 13.5
3.7 4.5 3.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.4 5
28% 24% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 32% 26% 27%
 
12.4 10.8 10.2 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 10.5 9.8
5.6 4.9 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.6 4.3
Key stats in Super Lig this season:
  • Galatasaray have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Trabzonspor 33 21 10 2 60 28 17 11 6 0 31 14 16 10 4 2 29 14 32 73
2 Fenerbahce 33 18 8 7 58 35 17 10 4 3 30 15 16 8 4 4 28 20 23 62
3 Konyaspor 33 18 7 8 56 36 17 12 4 1 32 12 16 6 3 7 24 24 20 61
4 Istanbul Basaksehir 33 16 6 11 46 32 16 10 1 5 24 14 17 6 5 6 22 18 14 54
5 Adana Demirspor 33 14 10 9 49 37 16 8 5 3 26 12 17 6 5 6 23 25 12 52
6 Alanyaspor 33 15 7 11 59 55 17 7 4 6 34 30 16 8 3 5 25 25 4 52
7 Besiktas 33 13 12 8 49 41 16 10 4 2 30 18 17 3 8 6 19 23 8 51
8 Antalyaspor 33 14 8 11 43 39 16 9 4 3 29 15 17 5 4 8 14 24 4 50
9 Hatayspor 33 14 7 12 50 51 16 9 4 3 31 18 17 5 3 9 19 33 -1 49
10 Fatih Karagumruk 33 13 8 12 40 48 16 8 5 3 24 15 17 5 3 9 16 33 -8 47
11 Kasimpasa 33 12 8 13 53 47 17 8 4 5 32 22 16 4 4 8 21 25 6 44
12 Galatasaray 33 12 8 13 44 47 17 9 3 5 26 18 16 3 5 8 18 29 -3 44
13 Sivasspor 33 10 12 11 43 43 16 5 8 3 24 17 17 5 4 8 19 26 0 42
14 Kayserispor 33 11 9 13 46 54 17 9 4 4 27 19 16 2 5 9 19 35 -8 42
15 Gazisehir Gaziantep 33 11 8 14 42 48 16 10 5 1 31 15 17 1 3 13 11 33 -6 41
16 Giresunspor 33 11 7 15 35 39 17 6 4 7 20 20 16 5 3 8 15 19 -4 40
17 Altay 33 8 6 19 34 49 16 5 3 8 17 21 17 3 3 11 17 28 -15 30
18 Rizespor 33 8 6 19 33 59 17 8 2 7 23 23 16 0 4 12 10 36 -26 30
19 Goztepe 33 7 6 20 37 57 17 4 2 11 17 25 16 3 4 9 20 32 -20 27
20 Yeni Malatyaspor 33 5 5 23 23 55 16 3 3 10 17 32 17 2 2 13 6 23 -32 20

Read more about Super Lig

The Süper Lig is the top league in Turkish football. It has 18 teams who play a season from August to May, meeting each other home and away. After all fixtures have been played the final league table is ready and the champion of Turkey celebrated. The three bottom teams are relegated.