April 18th features a match where Galatasaray and Yeni Malatyaspor will play a match in İstanbul in a clash of these two mismatched Super Lig teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 9 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. Galatasaray is fresh off their 0-2 loss against Fenerbahçe. Miha Zajc struck first for Fenerbahçe in the 26th minute on a feed from Bright Osayi-Samuel, then Serdar Dursun added another in the 68th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Galatasaray couldn’t manage to score, and Fenerbahçe took the shutout win. Galatasaray is looking for direction having 4 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while yeni Malatyaspor is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Giresunspor. Hamidou Traoré scored the first goal for Giresunspor in the 23rd minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Yeni Malatyaspor was frustrated by Giresunspor’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Giresunspor ended the match with the shutout victory. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 4 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 28th of November, Yeni Malatyaspor hosted Galatasaray at the Novi Gradski Stadion in their last match together. Yeni Malatyaspor and Galatasaray battled to a 0-0 draw. Neither Yeni Malatyaspor nor Galatasaray could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 5 and 12 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Both Muhammed Aktürkoğlu and Bafetimbi Gomis have been the hottest scorers for Galatasaray in the last five each having scored 2 goals each
Galatasaray will be without Sofiane Feghouli, Omar Elabdellaoui, Fatih Öztürk, Mostafa Mohamed and Muhammed Aktürkoğlu, while Nuri Aydin is unavailable to play for Yeni Malatyaspor.