Galatasaray will host Barcelona at RAMS Park in the Champions League tomorrow

Galatasaray will host Barcelona at RAMS Park tomorrow in the second week of the UEFA Champions League. In the match, which will kick off at 10 p.m., head coach Okan Buruk is seeking his 150th win in charge of the team.

Galatasaray will host Spanish side Barcelona at RAMS Park tomorrow in the second week of the UEFA Champions League. The match, which will kick off at 10 p.m., will be officiated by Italian referee Marco Guida. The game will be broadcast on TRT 1 and the tabii platform.

Entering the competition directly at the 36-team league phase, Galatasaray lost 3-1 away to Portuguese side Sporting in its opening match. Barcelona, meanwhile, defeated Feyenoord 5-1 at home in its first game.

Galatasaray have six absentees

Galatasaray's Ivory Coast international Wilfried Singo will miss the match against Barcelona because of an injury. In addition to Singo, who has been away from the team for some time and continues to train individually, Kaan Ayhan, Kazımcan Karataş, Arda Ünyay, Eyüp Aydın and Can Armando Güner will also be unavailable because they were not included in the squad submitted to UEFA.

Galatasaray's home record

The yellow-and-red side have won four of their last 10 home matches in the Champions League. Since a 1-1 draw with Club Brugge on November 26, 2019, Galatasaray have recorded four wins, four draws and two defeats in these home matches. The team scored 18 goals and conceded 14 during this run.

Galatasaray'ın iç saha maçlarını oynadığı RAMS Park

Galatasaray have also recorded seven wins, three draws and one defeat in their last 11 home matches in European competitions. The only defeat in this run came against Union Saint-Gilloise, by a score of 1-0.

Okan Buruk seeks 150th win

Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk wants to claim his 150th win in charge of the team against Barcelona. Since taking over Galatasaray in the 2022-2023 season, Buruk has recorded 149 wins, 29 draws and 33 defeats in 211 matches across all competitions.

Galatasaray Teknik Direktörü Okan Buruk

İlkay Gündoğan faces his former club

Galatasaray midfielder İlkay Gündoğan will face his former club Barcelona if head coach Okan Buruk selects him. The 35-year-old played for Barcelona during the 2023-2024 season and scored five goals in 51 appearances for the Spanish side.

İlkay Gündoğan (arşiv, 2021)

Okan Buruk also played in Galatasaray's only win over Barcelona during his playing career. Buruk came on in the 58th minute of the Champions League group-stage match on November 23, 1994, after which Galatasaray came from 1-0 down to win 2-1.

Barcelona have four absentees

Raphinha, Roony Bardghji and Andreas Christensen will miss Barcelona's match against Galatasaray because of injuries. Frenkie de Jong, who has been unavailable since the start of the season because of an injury and has only recently returned to team training, is also not expected to play.

Barcelona's season record

Barcelona beat Getafe 3-0 in their latest competitive match, in the eighth week of LaLiga. With that result, the Spanish side made it eight wins from eight league matches and sit top of the table with 24 points.

Barcelona have scored 39 goals and conceded eight in their nine competitive matches this season. The team have won all eight of their LaLiga matches and their one Champions League game, keeping clean sheets in four of those matches.

Barcelona have scored at least one goal in each of their last 44 Champions League matches. Their most recent goalless game was a 0-0 draw with Benfica on November 23, 2021. In the 44 matches since then, Barcelona have recorded 25 wins, six draws and 13 defeats, failed to score in seven games and kept clean sheets in six.