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Galata won five consecutive matches and it occupies the second place in the Super Lig table, while Konyaspor is next-to-last and has even 25 points fewer. Besides, Galata won their last three head-to-head.

Konyaspor

However, unlike very weak results made in the Turkish championship Konyaspor plays very good this year in the TurkishCup where is still in race to defend the title, which it won last year after defeating Basaksehir in the great final. After that Konyaspor won at the very beginning of new season reigning champion Besiktas in the Turkish Cup, but in its debut season in the Europa League it won just six points and consequently failed to reach the knockout phase.

Playing on several fronts had created them a fair deal of problems which is why Akcay had to leave the head coach position near the end of October and instead of him has arrived Ozdilek, but nothing significantly changed and Konyaspor still occupy the penultimate position in the table. Right because of that the club management has brought near the end of winter transfer window even three forwards, Sena, Jahovic and Eto’oa, but they will probably not be in the team that will face Galata, just like injured forwards Traore and Yatabare, and suspended stopper Turan.

Probable lineups Konyaspor: Kirintili – Skubic, Filipovic, Moke, Albayrak – Hadziahmetovic, Jonsson – Sahiner, Araz, Fofana – Milosevic

Galatasaray

We have said in the introduction that the guests from Istanbul won before the 1st leg of Turkish Cup five consecutive victories, including two won right in this competition. Galata had defeated third-division Bucaspor, while in the league it won at home Goztepe and Osmanlispor, and Kayserispor away. In that way coach Terim players haven’t dropped from the race for the title of Turkish champions as they occupy the second place in the Super Lig table, and have just one point fewer than leading Basaksehir.

On the other hand, first two teams positioned behind them, bitter city rivals Besiktas and Fenerbahce have four and five points fewer, respectively, than Galatasaray at the moment, which also harbours great expectations from the Turkish Cup. However, experienced coach Terim has stated that will send a combined team to play the 1st leg with Konyaspor. Out of action is only from before injured midfielder Fernando.

Probable lineups Galatasaray: Iscan – Linnes, Aziz, Calik, Balta – Donk, Ndiaye – Gumus, Belhanda, Oztekin – Derdiyok

Verdict:

Regardless of fact that Galatasaray is in much better shape at the moment we should bear in mind that Konyaspor is the reigning winner of Turkish Cup and will surely give its maximum in the 1st leg in order to make a positive result before the second match, which will be played in Istanbul.

Pick:  both teams to score 1.78 - 78/100 @1XBet