Champions Legaue - Galatasaray vs. FC Schalke - a review of the upcoming match

On Wednesday evening, tomorrow, it goes for record champion Galatasaray against FC Schalke 04. In 2013 it went already extraordinarily well for the lions. I have made a small balance for you with the information I could find.

Galatasaray will remember the last duel against Schalke in Istanbul. The third matchday of the UEFA Champions League will be a groundbreaking Group D match. The Turks currently have three points on their books after they won their first home game, but recently went bankrupt. Galatasaray are one point behind Schalke (and leaders Porto). The Bundesliga side celebrated a late victory in Moscow on the final day of the match.

Previous matches

The last encounter ended with a triumph for Galatasaray. The Istanbul club made it to the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League eighth-finals thanks to a strong away performance. After a 1-1 draw in Turkey, Fatih Terim's team won 3-2 in Gelsenkirchen and moved into the final eight. Umut Bulut marked the winning goal deep in injury time. However, Galatasaray's subsequent defeat of Real Madrid was their final destination.

Selçuk İnan scored three of Galatasaray's four goals in the first and second legs. Fernando Muslera also played in both games.

Galatasaray

- The group stage began with a 3-0 home win over Lokomotiv Moskva, and Galatasaray conceded a 1-0 away win over Porto on the second day.

- The win over Moscow ended a series of three 1-1 draws in front of their own crowd. Galatasaray won only two of the last ten European Cup matches in their own stadium (5 draws).

- The 2017/18 Turkish champions were most recently in the 2013/14 season in the last 16.

- Galatasaray will be in the group stage for the 15th time. If you add up all the participations of all the other Turkish clubs, you also get 15.

- The 2017/18 European Cup season came to an early end for Galatasaray. The Istanbul club failed 3-1 in the UEFA Europa League's second qualifying round against Sweden's Östersund in the first and second legs.

- Cimbom's last home match against a team from the Bundesliga took place in October 2014. At that time they lost 0:4 against Borussia Dortmund. In the last seven home games against German clubs there was no victory for the Turks (4U, 3N). This negative series has been going on for 26 years now.

- Galatasaray is the only team from Turkey that ever made it to the semi-finals of the premier class (1989).

Schalke

- A Weston McKennie goal in the 88th minute gave Schalke a 1-0 win over Lokomotiv Moskva on the final day of the match. At the start of Group D, they had not been able to beat Porto 1-1 at home.

- Schalke won the last three UEFA Champions League away games. Among them was an impressive 4-3 win at Real Madrid in the 2014/15 second leg of the Round of 16, although that was not enough to get them through (final score 4-5).

- The Royal Blues have only lost two of the last 13 away games in the European Cup (8S, 3U).

- The German runners-up of the 2017/18 season - the best squire placement since 2009/10 - is back in the group stage of the premier class for the first time since 2014/15.

- Last season Schalke did not play internationally, in the 2016/17 season S04 lost in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League against the later finalist Ajax.

- In 2011 Schalke reached the semi-finals of the premier class, the next three attempts in the UEFA Champions League all ended in the round of 16.

Latest news

Galatasaray

- Galatasaray failed 4-5 in the Turkish Super Cup on 5 August after a penalty shoot-out against Akhisar. After the end of extra time the score was 1:1.

- Galatasaray has been unbeaten in the league for 24 home games. In this period, 21 games could be won. Up to the 1:1 against Bursaspor on Friday there were even 16 in a row. The last defeat in front of the audience was on 6 May 2017 against Kasımpaşa (1:3).

- In the draw against Bursaspor, Galatasaray left points at home for the first time since the 0:0 against Fenerbahçe on 22 October 2017.

- Of the 17 goals in the Süper Lig, Galatasaray has marked 13 in home games.

- Ryan Donk scored his first goal in the Galatasaray jersey on 6 October in a 1-0 away win over Antalyaspor.

- Selçuk İnan was substituted in both Galatasaray UEFA Champions League games in the second half. These were his only two season appearances until Friday, when he had injured his groin on 19 August. On Friday, he was substituted in the 42nd minute.

- Emre Akbaba was replaced by Erzurumspor in the 32nd minute. Due to a metatarsal fracture he had to be operated on September 30th.

- Henry Onyekuru will be missing for about four weeks due to a thigh injury.

- Serdar Aziz (groin), Sofiane Feghouli (thigh) and Fernando (thigh) all had to be replaced against Bursaspor in the first half.

- Eren Derdiyok had been missing with thigh problems since 28 September. During his comeback against Bursaspor on Friday, he was substituted in the middle of the first half and scored the equalizer.

- Of the 21 goals of the season, Galatasaray only scored five in the first half (across competitions).

- On 16 October, the club agreed with coach Fatih Terim on a new two-year contract with an option for another three years.

Schalke

- Schalke lost the first five games of the Bundesliga season and celebrated two wins afterwards. On Saturday the next setback was the 0:2 at home against Bremen.

- Goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann suffered an injury while warming up before the match against Bremen. Alexander Nübel made his first appearance in the starting eleven.

- Weston McKennie, who scored his first compulsory goal for Schalke on Matchday 2 in Russia, was successful in the Bundesliga for the first time in his 2-0 away win against Fortuna Düsseldorf on October 6.

- Mark Uth first came to Germany on 13 October in a 3-0 draw in the Netherlands in the UEFA Nations League.

- Amine Harit, who suffered a thigh injury on 29 September, played against Bremen for 69 minutes.

- Bastian Oczipca (missing since July, groin), Benjamin Stambouli (20 August, ankle) and Steven Skrzybski (14 September, muscular problems) are all back in training.

- Cedric Teuchert scored a goal on 12 October in Germany's 2-1 win over Norway in the U21 national team. However, he suffered an injury in his thigh and will be absent for about eight weeks.

- Suat Serdar missed Germany's U21 qualifiers against Norway and Republic of Ireland due to knee problems. McKennie did not travel to the USA due to an adductor injury. Salif Sané (muscular problems) and Breel Embolo (shoulder) also stayed away from their national teams. Of these four players, only Embolo was not used on Saturday.

- Sascha Riether has not played this season due to knee problems.