Gençlerbirliği 1-2 Galatasaray: result and report

Super Lig · Saturday 18 April 2026

Result

Gençlerbirliği 1-2 Galatasaray

Super Lig · Saturday 18 April 2026, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Gençlerbirliği · Galatasaray · Super Lig predictions

Gençlerbirliği 1-2 Galatasaray: match report

Gençlerbirliği were beaten by Galatasaray 1-2 in the Super Lig on Saturday 18 April 2026. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Mauro Icardi opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Gençlerbirliği's goal came from M'Baye Niang (66'). Galatasaray scored through Mauro Icardi (2') and Yunus Akgün (35').

Discipline: Gençlerbirliği received 2 yellow cards; Galatasaray received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Gençlerbirliği were 15th on 25 points from 29 and Galatasaray 1st on 68 points from 29. Gençlerbirliği went on to finish that season 14th with 34 points, and Galatasaray 1st with 77.

Gençlerbirliği lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Galatasaray in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Yunus Akgün of Galatasaray (8.4), ahead of M'Baye Niang (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Gençlerbirliği win, 2 draws and 7 for Galatasaray.

Going into the match Gençlerbirliği's last five read L-L-L-L-D and Galatasaray's D-W-L-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Mauro IcardiGalatasaray · 0-1
  • 35'Goal · Yunus AkgünGalatasaray · 0-2
  • 48'Yellow card · Roland SallaiGalatasaray
  • 50'Yellow card · Franco TongyaGençlerbirliği
  • 66'Goal · M'Baye NiangGençlerbirliği · 1-2
  • 81'Yellow card · Zan ZuzekGençlerbirliği
  • 89'Yellow card · Uğurcan ÇakırGalatasaray

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Gençlerbirliği 1, draws 2, Galatasaray 7.

Team news

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Gençlerbirliği line-up (4-1-4-1)

Ricardo Velho, Thalisson, Dimitrios Goutas, Zan Zuzek, Matej Hanousek, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Göktan Gürpüz, Oğulcan Ülgün, Sékou Koïta, Franco Tongya, M'Baye Niang

Galatasaray line-up (4-2-3-1)

Uğurcan Çakır, Roland Sallai, Davinson Sánchez, Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Ismail Jakobs, Lucas Torreira, Gabriel Sara, Leroy Sané, Yunus Akgün, Barış Alper Yılmaz, Mauro Icardi