Fenerbahce vs Gaziantep
Turkey – Super Lig
Date: Monday, 19 August 2019
Kick-off at 18:00 UK / 19:00 CET
Venue: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium (Istanbul).
Team News
Fenerbahce
Sadik Ciftpinar and Mauricio Isla will represent the injured Serdar Aziz and Hasan Ali Kaldirim respectively.
Tolgay Arslan was also sidelined through injury but he is not expected to start again.
Summer arrival Garry Rodrigues, Max Kruse and Vedat Muriqi are ready to make their debut.
Fellow newcomers, Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, Deniz Turuc, and Altay Bayindir are expected to start on the bench.
Emre, who returned to Fenerbahce after a four-year spell with Basaksehir, is also expected to start.
Gazisehir Gaziantep FK
Sumudica's manager has a complete army to choose from.
Yuri Lodygin, Junior Morais, Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, Pawel Olkowski, Abdul-Aziz Tetteh, Souleyman Doukara, Guray Vural, and Bartlomiej Pawlowski are expected to make their debuts.
The summer arrivals with Mugdat Celik, Olarenwaju Kayode, Raman Chibsah and Alin Tosca are expected to start playing on the bench.
FENERBAHCE BETTING TIPS VS GAZIANTEP
Last season was something of a horror show for fans of Fenerbahce, who watched his team gasping for breath before finally being finished outside of Europe. This time, Ersun Yanal's troops will hope to start better. Gaztiantep, who has risen to the top after winning the second division play-offs at the
end of the last campaign, will also be looking to start a positive start to life at Super Lig.
Fenerbahce had one obvious problem last season and that was the lack of goals. They are not exceptionally defensive, but have conceded fewer than all but four of the 17 other Super Lig teams. At the other end of the field, it was a struggle, because they scored 44 rather calm goals. To put it into context, the teams that Fenerbahce hopes to better this term all score more than that, with people like Galatasaray, Trabzonspor and Besiktas all scoring 60+.
Creativity is no big deal for Fenerbahce, who ended the campaign with 53.24 goals expected for, which is only 6.86 fewer than Besiktas, who topped the expected goal for the table, but got the ball in the net of course. During the summer, Yanal's manager has acted by bringing in Vedat Muriqi, who was impressed when he scored 17 Super Lig goals for Rizespor last season, and Max Kruse, who scored 72 goals in 216 Bundesliga appearances for Freiburg, Gladbach, Wolfsburg and Werder Bremen combined. With a player like that, Fenerbahce must be far more deadly in front of goal.
Gaziantep is also busy in the transfer market during this season, although their addition is less impressive than Fenerbahce's. Visitors Monday have brought the Super Lig experience by adding Mugdat Celik from Galatasray and Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik from Kayserispor. Souleymane Diarra has also joined from France's second-level Lens, while Raman Chibsah and Junior Morais come respectively from Frosinone and FCSB. However, Gaziantep still seems to lack experience in the top flight.
In fact, this looks like a relatively easy opening task for Fenerbahce, who really had to improve last season's performance.
From a betting standpoint, this is certainly not the most exciting match, but those who want to be involved will not make a mistake with 'Fenerbahçe to Win & More than 2.5 Goals'. The hosts, who saw an average of 3.05 goals scored at this place last season, have added some much-needed weapons over the summer, weapons that should pay dividends against the visitors who don't seem to have the quality to perform well at this level. .
Players Score Correct Score ’can try a 3-0 home win. Despite their overall misery last season, creating chances and even scoring goals are not often a problem for Fenerbahce, who along with new players like Kruse and Muriqi up front can punish newly promoted visitors.
Fenerbahce vs Gaziantep Head-to-head (h2h)
The troops only met once before at the 2003 Turkish Cup which ended with a 3-0 score for the hosts.
