Only a win will satisfy the Galatasaray supporters in this Türk Telekom Stadyumu clash with İstanbul Başakşehir, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Super Lig table.
- Galatasaray has the fewest conceded goals (18) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray have scored at least twice as many goals at home as İstanbul Başakşehir have scored away.
It's no vacation for neither Galatasaray nor İstanbul Başakşehir as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
These teams are located so close to each other that their supporters eat in the same restaurants, hang out at the same night clubs and give birth at the same hospitals. This means added importance to the game and a vibrant atmosphere.
Galatasaray form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Türk Telekom Stadyumu as Galatasaray, who have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Super Lig, have scored 24 goals to get 21 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Super Lig are 6-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Türk Telekom Stadyumu.
Galatasaray enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Gazisehir Gaziantep's place. The match ended 2-1 with Henry Onyekuru (2) scoring. In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Yeni Malatyaspor.
The victory against Gazisehir Gaziantep came after Henry Onyekuru's winning goal. The Galatasaray manager F. Terim was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 46th minute.
The manager F. Terim will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Fenerbahçe in only four days.
The Galatasaray manager F. Terim has got the team scoring with 24 from 10 home games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 12 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Galatasaray are not conceding a lot of goals here at Türk Telekom Stadyumu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 10 matches.
İstanbul Başakşehir form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for İstanbul Başakşehir so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-6 (win-draw-lose).
Home advantage was not enough for İstanbul Başakşehir in their previous game, as they lost their Super Lig-match, hosting Hatayspor, 1-5. A 1-2 loss hosting Trabzonspor before that.
Başakşehir lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
After this away game İstanbul Başakşehir return home for a Super Lig game against Fatih Karagumruk. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Başakşehir are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 10 games (in the league). İstanbul Başakşehir struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the İstanbul Başakşehir - Galatasaray 0-2 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Galatasaray three wins, two draws and İstanbul Başakşehir five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Diagne 9 goals |  Y. Belhanda 6 goals |   F. Gulbrandsen 6 goals |
Galatasaray missing players
İstanbul Başakşehir missing players
| Galatasaray | İstanbul Başakşehir | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| 43 | 24 | 14 | Scored | S | 5 | 10 | 27 |
| 18 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 12 | 19 | 37 |
| 90% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 76% | 70% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 57% | 60% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 50% | 52% |
| 29% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 20% | 29% |
| 14% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 20% | 24% |
| 48% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 50% | 62% |
| 43% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 10% | 14% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 40% | 29% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 2.3 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 12.7 | 14.4 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.6 | 12.8 | 14.3 |
| 5.7 | 7 | 7.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
| 36% | 34% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 24% | 28% |
- All of İstanbul Başakşehir's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Galatasaray has the fewest conceded goals (18) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray has the most clean sheets (9) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray has the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray has the the best goal difference (+25) in Super Lig
- Galatasaray have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Galatasaray have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Galatasaray have scored at least twice as many goals at home as İstanbul Başakşehir have scored away.
- İstanbul Başakşehir haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Fenerbahçe | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 20 | 45 |
| 2 | Besiktas | 20 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 47 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 24 | 44 |
| 3 | Galatasaray | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 43 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 25 | 42 |
| 4 | Gazisehir Gaziantep | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 35 |
| 5 | Hatayspor | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 35 |
| 6 | Alanyaspor | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 34 |
| 7 | Trabzonspor | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 33 |
| 8 | Fatih Karagumruk | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 29 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 31 |
| 9 | Yeni Malatyaspor | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 27 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 28 |
| 10 | Antalyaspor | 20 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -6 | 26 |
| 11 | Goztepe | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 29 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 25 |
| 12 | Kasımpaşa | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 17 | -8 | 25 |
| 13 | Rizespor | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 36 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -9 | 25 |
| 14 | Sivasspor | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | -4 | 24 |
| 15 | İstanbul Başakşehir | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 27 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -10 | 24 |
| 16 | Konyaspor | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 23 |
| 17 | Kayserispor | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 22 |
| 18 | Genclerbirligi | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 40 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 22 | -20 | 19 |
| 19 | Ankaragucu | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 25 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -9 | 18 |
| 20 | BB Erzurumspor | 20 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 35 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -16 | 17 |
| 21 | Denizlispor | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 25 | -19 | 14 |