İSTANBUL. Galatasaray was in the end too much to handle for Konyaspor with the goal of Abdülkerim Bardakcı (63′), Wilfried Zaha (90′) and Abdülkerim Bardakcı (90′). Galatasaray was much superior in terms of ball possession (66%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Rams Global Stadium stadium in İstanbul on Sunday and it started at 7:00 pm local time. The referee was Ali Şansalan who was helped by Serkan Olguncan and Serkan Ok. The 4th official was Muhammet Ali Metoğlu. The weather was overcast clouds. The temperature was cold at 13.01 degrees Celsius or 55.42 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 79%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Galatasaray had a strong ball possession 66% while Konyaspor was struggling with a 34% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Galatasaray was more pushing with 64 dangerous attacks and 30 shots of which 10 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Galatasaray won the match​.

Galatasaray shot 30 times, 10 on target, 14 off target. On the other side, Konyaspor shot 7 times, 5 on target, 2 off target.

Cards

Galatasaray received 3 yellow cards (Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Kaan Ayhan and Barış Alper Yılmaz). On the opposite side, Konyaspor received 3 yellow cards (Francisco Calvo, Adil Demirbağ and Nélson Oliveira).

Standings

After playing this match, Galatasaray has 47 points like Fenerbahçe to hold in the 2nd place. Regarding the opposition, Konyaspor will stays with 18 points like Samsunspor to hold in the 16th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Super Lig, Galatasaray will play away against Sivasspor on the 11th of January with a 21-7 head to head in favor of Galatasaray (6 draws).

Konyaspor will play away against Fenerbahçe on the 10th of January with a 20-7 head to head statistic in favor of Fenerbahçe (3 draws).

Galatasaray – Formation

Galatasaray adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

The manager Okan Buruk decided to play with the following team: Fernando Muslera (8.1), Kaan Ayhan (8.1), Victor Nelsson (8.4), Abdülkerim Bardakcı (9.7), Barış Alper Yılmaz (7.1), Kerem Demirbay (8.4), Tanguy Ndombélé (7.5), Wilfried Zaha (8.2), Dries Mertens (7.0), Kerem Aktürkoğlu (7.9) and Halil Dervişoğlu (7.5).

The home team had on the bench: Eyüp Aydin, Günay Güvenc, Tetê (6.8), Gökdeniz Gürpüz, Baran Demiroğlu, Ali Yeşilyurt, Ali Turap Bülbül, Hamza Akman, Efe Akman and Kâzımcan Karataş (6.4).

Substitutions

Galatasaray made 5 changes: Dries Mertens for Tetê (71′), Kerem Aktürkoğlu for Kâzımcan Karataş (85′), Kerem Demirbay for Ali Turap Bülbül (90′), Halil Dervişoğlu for Efe Akman (90′) and Tanguy Ndombélé for Eyüp Aydin (90′).

Player of the match: Abdülkerim Bardakcı​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Galatasaray was Abdülkerim Bardakcı.

His rating is 9.7 with 2 goals, 68 passes (85% accurate) and 2 key passes. He won 8 duels out of 13. He performed 2 crosses.

Konyaspor – Formation

Also Konyaspor adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Hakan Keleş played with: Deniz Ertas (7.7), Uğurcan Yazğılı (6.7), Adil Demirbağ (6.4), Francisco Calvo (7.1), Guilherme Haubert Sityá (7.3), Oğulcan Ülgün (6.6), Soner Dikmen (6.8), Louka Prip (7.0), Alexandru Cicâldău (7.0), Marlos Moreno (7.1) and Nélson Oliveira (6.0).

These were the players on the bench: Yasir Subaşı, Robert Murić (6.4), Yunus Malli, Mehmet Erdogan, Cebrail Karayel, Kahraman Demirtaş, Niko Rak, Ahmet Oğuz (6.3), Mehmet Ali Buyuksayar and Emrehan Gedikli (6.4).

Substitutions

Konyaspor made 5 changes: Louka Prip for Robert Murić (74′), Oğulcan Ülgün for Ahmet Oğuz (74′), Alexandru Cicâldău for Emrehan Gedikli (83′), Soner Dikmen for Yunus Malli (90′) and Francisco Calvo for Niko Rak (90′).

Player of the match: Deniz Ertas​

The most impressive player for Konyaspor was the goalkeeper: Deniz Ertas. His rating is 7.65. He performed 7 saves.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Super Lig.​

• İstanbulspor – Fenerbahçe – 1-5
• Galatasaray – Konyaspor – 3-0
• Kayserispor – Sivasspor – 1-3