Fenerbahce vs Konyaspor - prediction, team news, lineups

Fenerbahce big Konyaspor astatine Sukru Saracoglu Stadium connected Saturday successful the 2nd circular of the 2026-27 Turkish Super Lig season, with Ismail Kartal's broadside hopeless to respond aft a daze decision connected the opening weekend.

The Yellow Canaries caput into the lucifer aft a bruising week that saw them suffer domestically earlier drafting successful the Champions League, portion the visitors get successful Istanbul having besides suffered decision connected matchday one, albeit successful considerably little melodramatic circumstances.

Match preview

Fenerbahce endured a shocking commencement to the campaign, losing 2-1 distant to Genclerbirligi contempt Anderson Talisca giving them an aboriginal lead, arsenic goals from Franco Tongya and Oguzcan Ulgun turned the crippled astir successful Ankara and near the Yellow Canaries empty-handed.

The effect instantly piled unit connected Kartal, with Turkish media questioning his methods aft conscionable 1 league game, and the caput manager had small clip to dwell connected the defeat, with the Istanbul broadside facing Lyon successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League playoff necktie conscionable days later.

Fenerbahce were incapable to find a victor against the French side, with Mason Greenwood cancelling retired Lois Openda's opener to unafraid a 1-1 gully and permission the necktie finely balanced up of adjacent week's 2nd limb successful France.

The congested docket has already stretched Kartal's squad, portion high-profile summertime signing Romelu Lukaku is inactive waiting for his archetypal large interaction aft coming connected excessively precocious to power the gully with Lyon.

With plentifulness of idiosyncratic prime astatine his disposal but cohesion inactive developing, Kartal volition beryllium hopeless for a effect from his players connected Saturday, and triumph would spell immoderate mode towards calming the aboriginal nerves astir the club.

Fenerbahce tin besides gully assurance from their caller grounds successful this fixture, having gone unbeaten successful their past 7 league meetings with Saturday’s visitors, winning six and drafting one.

Konyaspor, meanwhile, were unfortunate to permission the opening play empty-handed aft defending resolutely against an attacking Rizespor side.

Ilhan Palut's squad looked acceptable to unafraid a invaluable constituent earlier Qazim Laci converted a punishment successful the seventh infinitesimal of stoppage clip to springiness Rizespor a melodramatic 1-0 victory.

Palut has acknowledged that his broadside were disrupted during pre-season, with respective cardinal players missing betwixt 1 and 2 weeks of mentation done injury, portion the Konyaspor brag believes that deficiency of continuity could forestall his broadside from uncovering their champion bushed aboriginal successful the campaign.

Speaking up of the travel to Istanbul, helium admitted that Fenerbahce correspond an highly hard hostile but insisted his players volition vie fully, portion helium besides revealed that the nine stay keen to adhd different prime winger earlier the transportation model closes.

However, Konyaspor's distant grounds against the Super Lig's accepted powerhouses past play offers small encouragement, having mislaid each 3 distant matches against Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor and Galatasaray, highlighting the standard of the task awaiting them connected Saturday.

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Team News

Fenerbahce stay without Jayden Oosterwolde, who continues to retrieve from an Achilles tendon injury, portion Mert Gunok is sidelined with a musculus problem, portion Caglar Soyuncu is besides racing to retrieve successful clip for the fixture.

Lukaku could beryllium handed his afloat debut, perchance replacing chap summertime accomplishment Vedat Muriqi successful attack, with Kartal expected to rotate his squad pursuing the midweek Champions League exertions.

Talisca remains 1 of the fewer agleam spots successful Fenerbahce's hard start, arsenic the Brazilian had scored successful 5 consecutive appearances earlier the Lyon crippled and should clasp his relation down the cardinal striker.

Konyaspor person nary caller wounded concerns, allowing Palut to see retaining the XI that started against Rizespor, with caller signing Chidozie Awaziem expected to proceed successful cardinal defence alongside Adil Demirbag.

Emir Bars could besides instrumentality to the starting lineup connected the near broadside of the onslaught aft replacing Ebrima Colley conscionable aft the hr people past weekend, arsenic his directness could beryllium utile against a Fenerbahce defence that has shown vulnerabilities successful some of its competitory matches this season.

Fenerbahce imaginable starting lineup:

Ederson; Muldur, Skriniar, Ake, Brown; Guendouzi, Kante; Akturkoglu, Talisca, Greenwood; Lukaku

Konyaspor imaginable starting lineup:

Ertas; Yazgili, Awaziem, Demirbag, Andzouana; Jevtovic, Ibrahimoglu; Bars, Goncalves, Turuc; Muleka

We say: Fenerbahce 2-0 Konyaspor

Fenerbahce's superior idiosyncratic prime and location vantage should beryllium capable to close people aft a hard opening week, adjacent with the fatigue created by their congested European schedule.

Konyaspor showed antiaircraft resilience against Rizespor, but Fenerbahce person considerably much attacking prime and should make capable opportunities to interruption through.

We expect Kartal's broadside to respond successful beforehand of their ain supporters, with Talisca oregon 1 of the club's attacking recruits uncovering the nett arsenic Fenerbahce assertion their archetypal Super Lig triumph of the season.
 

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