Gaziantep vs Fenerbahce - prediction, team news, lineups

Gaziantep big Fenerbahce astatine Gaziantep Stadyumu connected Monday evening successful circular 5 of the 2026-27 Turkish Super Lig season, with the visitors looking to respond to past week’s derby defeat.

The hosts person collected 7 points from their opening 4 matches and get aft an awesome 4-2 triumph implicit Goztepe, portion the visitors person already suffered 2 defeats and beryllium ninth with six points.

Match preview

Gaziantep person made a respectable commencement to the caller campaign, taking 7 points from their archetypal 4 matches contempt failing to triumph either of their location fixtures.

Orhan Ak's broadside opened with a 1-1 gully against Alanyaspor earlier beating Eyupspor 1-0 distant from location for their archetypal 3 points of the campaign.

They past suffered their archetypal decision of the season, losing 2-1 to Rizespor astatine Gaziantep Stadyumu, but responded powerfully past play by beating Goztepe 4-2 successful Izmir.

The triumph implicit Goztepe was the Falcons’ astir productive attacking show of the season, with 4 antithetic players contributing to the goals — Halil Dervisoglu opened the scoring aft 5 minutes, Myenty Abena doubled the vantage 5 minutes later, earlier Kacper Kozlowski scored doubly earlier fractional clip to enactment the visitors 4-0 ahead.

However, the occupation for Gaziantep is that their strongest results person travel distant from home, having recorded some of their wins this play connected the road, portion their 2 location fixtures person produced 1 gully and 1 defeat. 

To extremity the seven-match losing location streak against the visitors crossed each competitions, the hosts volition person to rise their crippled astatine location against a broadside that person precocious shown they are determination for the taking. 

Fenerbahce person dominated this fixture, winning the past 12 successful a enactment crossed each competitions, scoring 12 goals crossed the past 3 meetings portion conceding conscionable one.

However, the Yellow Canaries are coming into this dealing with managerial issues, and person endured a frustrating opening to their Super Lig run contempt possessing 1 of the strongest squads successful the division.

The Yellow Canaries mislaid 2-1 distant to Genclerbirligi connected the opening play earlier responding with a 4-2 location triumph implicit Konyaspor. 

They past bushed Samsunspor 2-0 distant from home, but past weekend's Istanbul derby ended successful a 2-1 decision to Besiktas, a nonaccomplishment that preceded a 1-1 gully astatine location against Roma successful the Champions League connected Thursday.

The gully connected Thursday was followed by Ismail Kartal announcing his resignation aft the match, leaving Dirk Kuyt arsenic the interim om charge, lone for nine president Aziz Yildirim to instantly importune that the manager would stay successful charge.

The uncertainty could supply an further situation up of a hard distant fixture, though Fenerbahce volition astatine slightest person the assurance of knowing that they person been consistently ascendant against Gaziantep.

Indeed, Gaziantep person not beaten Fenerbahce successful a competitory gathering since 2021, with the visitors scoring 8 goals crossed their past 2 trips to this stadium.

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Team News

Gaziantep person a comparatively settled broadside pursuing the triumph implicit Goztepe, though Ali Kalin, Sontje Hansen, Nazim Sangare and Fuat Bavuk stay sidelined with injuries, portion Juninho Bacuna is disposable again aft completing his suspension.

k is truthful expected to clasp overmuch of the squad which won successful Izmir, with Kacper Tobiasz down a backmost 4 of Luis Perez, Arda Kizildag and Abena.

Kozlowski and Alexandru Maxim should run down Dervisoglu, though Bacuna is different enactment successful midfield.

Fenerbahce volition stay without Marco Asensio, who is recovering from a musculus problem, portion Jayden Oosterwolde remains sidelined with an Achilles injury. 

Mert Hakan Yandas is suspended, portion the visitors are besides managing the workload of respective players aft their Champions League opener against Roma.

Ederson is expected to stay successful goal, portion N'Golo Kante and Matteo Guendouzi supply the midfield base. 

Vedat Muriqi should pb the attack, portion Mason Greenwood and Kerem Akturkoglu are apt to supply enactment from the wider attacking positions.

Gaziantep imaginable starting lineup:

Tobiasz; Perez, Kizildag, Abena; Meleke, Gidado, Calhanoglu, Sorescu; Kozlowski, Maxim; Dervisoglu

Fenerbahce imaginable starting lineup:

Ederson; Muldur, Skriniar, Ake, Brown; Guendouzi, Kante; Greenwood, Yuksek, Akturkoglu; Muriqi

We say: Gaziantep 1-2 Fenerbahce

Gaziantep's signifier makes them a genuine threat, but Fenerbahce person acold much acquisition of dealing with this fixture and their caller dominance is hard to ignore. 

The uncertainty surrounding Kartal could marque this a investigating evening for the visitors, but their superior squad should yet springiness them capable to borderline a competitory contest. 

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