Fenerbahçe will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 3-1 Europa League defeat in their last game at the hands of Dinamo Zagreb.
In that game, Fenerbahçe had 58% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Fenerbahçe was Sebastian Szymański (25'). Dinamo Zagreb had 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Dion Drena Beljo (21', 50') and Monsef Bakrar (95') scored for Dinamo Zagreb.
It has been all too rare in recent times that Fenerbahçe have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Fenerbahçe have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 7 goals in the process.
Their past results show that Fenerbahçe:
In the game prior to this, Antalyaspor drew 1-1 in the Super Lig tie with Kayserispor.
In that match, Antalyaspor had 53% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Antalyaspor was Georgi Dzhikiya (52'). On the other side, Kayserispor got 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. László Bénes (92') scored for Kayserispor.
Looking at their form, and Antalyaspor have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 6 goals in total. Defensively, Antalyaspor have been far from perfect. We will just have to find out if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.
Coming into this meeting, Antalyaspor have left without a victory over Fenerbahçe in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. Not good.
A review of past results between these clubs stretching back to 03/01/2023 shows that these fixtures have ended in disappointment for Antalyaspor. They have not managed to come away with any victories whatsoever while Fenerbahçe have simply been better than them, getting wins in 100 per cent of those matches played.
A combined total of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 14 of them from Sarı Kanaryalar and 3 belonging to Akrepler. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.
The previous league clash featuring the two was Super Lig match day 26 on 02/03/2025 when it ended Fenerbahçe 3-0 Antalyaspor.
In that match, Fenerbahçe had 49% possession and 15 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Mert Müldür (9'), Dušan Tadić (26') and Youssef En-Nesyri (30').
On the other side, Antalyaspor got 4 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.
The match was refereed by Mehmet Türkmen.
It’s our opinion that Sarı Kanaryalar will probably make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Ederson, Nélson Semedo, Milan Skriniar, Çağlar Söyüncü, Jayden Oosterwolde, İsmail Yüksek, Fred, Irfan Can Kahveci, Talisca, Kerem Aktürkoglu and Marco Asensio.
Antalyaspor boss Emre Belözoğlu has multiple availability issues to deal with. Hüseyin Türkmen (unknown injury), Veysel Sarı (unknown injury), Erdoğan Yeşilyurt (Fitness), Dario Saric (unknown injury), Bahadır Öztürk (unknown injury) and Doğukan Sinik (unknown injury) are those who can’t be considered.
It’s our belief that Akrepler seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Julián Cuesta, Bunyamin Balci, Lautaro Giannetti, Georgiy Dzhikiya, Kenneth Paal, Soner Dikmen, Hasan Yakub İlçin, Abdulkadir Omur, Ramzi Safuri, Nikola Storm and Sander Van de Streek.
Antalyaspor will be up against it to be getting goals against a Fenerbahçe team who will likely dominate proceedings.
We are anticipating a very comprehensive 3-0 victory for Fenerbahçe at full-time.