Galatasaray – Dynamo. Forecast and announcement for the Europa League match

On Tuesday, January 21, the match of the 7th round of the main round of the Europa League will take place, in which the Turkish “Galatasaray” and the Kyiv “Dynamo” will play. The game will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) on the field of the “Aly Sami Yen” stadium, starting at 17:30 Kyiv time.

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Galatasaray Traditionally, Europa League matches are held on Thursdays, but this one will take place on Tuesday. The reason is that four Istanbul clubs are playing in the main round of European competitions this season, and three of them are in the Europa League (except for Galatasaray, these are Fenerbahce and Beşiktaş). Therefore, UEFA, in order to avoid holding more than one match in one day in Istanbul (due to security issues), made the calendar so that the matches of the seventh round of the main round of the Europa League for Istanbul clubs were held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (since the matches of the last eighth round will be held at the same time, all the Istanbul clubs will go away, so the games of the penultimate round will become home games for all of them).

Galatasaray is sixth in the standings and has good enough chances to get into the top 8 at the end of the main round and go straight to the 1/8 finals of the Europa League. The Istanbul team won three times (PAOK, “Elsfborg” and “Tottenham” suffered) and drew three times (with “RFSH”, “AZ Alkmaar” and “Malmo”) The goal difference is 15:11.

In the national championship, the “yellow-reds” are in the lead, after 19 rounds ahead of “Fenerbahce” by six points (and not having a single defeat and only three draws).

There are a lot of big names in the team, but most of all this season former Napoli players – Viktor Osymkhen (14 goals and five assists) and Dries Mertens (14 assists and five goals on the account of the unfading Belgian) . Wingers Akgyun and Yilmaz are also very effective, so the Dynamo defense needs to be very careful.

Dynamo And the people of Kyiv have a problem with protection, especially with its center. Denys Popov will miss the game due to injury. Taras Mykhavko and Kristian Bilovar are very unstable, especially the former, who regularly scores in his own goal during the season. Alexander Shovkovsky practiced a scheme with three center backs in the European Cup matches, but due to the absence of Popov, this option is no longer available. It would be possible to lower Vladimir Brazhko back from the support zone, but the midfielder will not play either because he is injured. And the option with Dyachuk is, in principle, possible, but for some reason it is not believed, given that Maksym missed a lot of the season due to injury.

Due to the above-mentioned problems at the winter training camp, Dynamo had two central defenders on display. But Bohdan Slyubik will return to Lviv “Rukh” and there will be talk of his transfer, at best, only in the summer. And the South African center back Ime Okon seems to be still in the team for observation for a week, but, most likely, the coaching staff was not impressed either. At least, there were not even any hints of a contract.

Central linebackers Alexander Andrievsky and Vladimir Shepelev, whom Alexander Shovkovsky did not count on, left the team. The first of them has already found a new team, signed an agreement with Zhytomyr “Polesie”.

At the training camp, Dynamo started with a defeat against the German Magdeburg, but they did not lose again – only Vydzev failed to beat, but Shovkovsky’s wards proved stronger against FCSB, Maribor and CSKA 1948.

In the championship, the people of Kiev are the first, and everything indicates that they will not give the coveted championship to anyone this season.

And now about the sad, which I would not like to write about and which will be specifically discussed at the end of the information block about “Dynamo”, since there is clearly nothing to brag about here. In the European Cup arena, the Kyiv team frankly failed, lost all six matches in the Europa League and de facto missed the chance for the European Cup spring long ago. Moreover, only one goal was scored in these matches. Therefore, in the report game, Dynamo’s tournament motivation will be to try not to take the last place in the overall table. And attempts to save the prestige of the club a little can be remembered, and the prizes for the victory will not be superfluous.

Taking into account that “Dynamo” traditionally plays well with Turkish teams, it can be assumed that there will be chances to win, in addition, it is believed that they will finally break through and manage to score, and more than a goal per game. We’ll see how much Kievans will miss on Tuesday evening.

Statistics of meetings The teams did not meet each other in official matches, but on April 15, 2022, they held a friendly charity match. Then Dynamo turned out to be stronger, winning with a score of 3:1 (Besedin, Buyalsky and Tsygankov distinguished themselves for the Kyivans).

Orientation compositions Galatasaray: Muslera – Ayhan, Sanchez, Bardacci, Jacobs – Torreira – Akgun, Demirbay, Mertens, Yilmaz – Osymhen

“Dynamo”: Bushchan – Tymchyk, Mykhavko, Bilovar, Vyvcharenko – Mykhaylenko, Shaparenko – Yarmolenko, Buyalsky, Kabaev – Vanat

Forecast for the confrontation It is not a fact that “Dynamo” will be able to win, but we expect at least two scored goals from the Kyiv team. And how many will be missed is unknown, but we predict that the teams will play a game with many scored goals.