Our prediction for this Champions League match:
Galatasaray
Match Time & Date:
20/09/2023
12:45 PM
Prediction: 1-0
Copenhagen
Rams Park will host Wednesday’s Champions League game between Galatasaray and Copenhagen, who meet for the first time since November 2013 in the elite competition. Okan Buruk’s men are on a six-game winning run in all competitions, meaning that they are brimming with confidence ahead of their Champions League opener, but they will have to prove their worth on the field. A man to watch in the home team will be former Inter forward Mauro Icardi, who has been scoring goals for fun of late, while head coach Okan Buruk has no fresh injury worries.
Jacob Neestrup’s troops, on the other hand, played out a 2-2 draw with Nordsjaelland in the Superliga derby at the weekend and, no doubt, they would be happy with one point from the Champions League clash as well. Galatasaray, though, are a real force to be reckoned with at home and we predict that the Turks are going to pick up all three points from the match. All Babacar, Boilesen, and Khocholava are out of contention with injuries for the away team.
Highlighted Player (Dries Mertens):
Dries Mertens is a Belgian football player born on the 6th of May 1987 in Leuven. Mertens started his football career in the youth of RSC Anderlecht and AA Gent. In season 2005/2006 he made his debut for the first team of AA Gent.
After playing for AGOVV, FC Utrecht and PSV Mertens got transferred to Napoli for approximately 9.5 million euro. Mertens made his debut for the Belgian national team in October 2010 and played over 40 games for the national team already. Mertens played during World Cup 2014 and EURO 2016 for Belgium.
Mertens is a right attacking midfielder, which can play as a forward as well. Mertens is known for being a very small fast player, which has the ability to get past several defenders and deliver a cross to his team mates. In his career Mertens didn’t win any big prizes yet. The biggest achievements of Mertens are winning the Dutch national cup with PSV in 2011/2012, the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa in 2014 with Napoli.
Highlighted Team (Copenhagen):
The most successful club in the history of Danish football FC Kopenhagen was founded in 1992, through the merger of 15-time Danish champions Kjobenhavns Boldklub and seven-time champions of Denmark Boldklubben 1903. Football Club Copenhagen play their matches at the Telia Parken, a venue that can host 38,000 spectators.
The Team of the City as Copenhagen is called in Denmark has won the Danish football championship eleven times, while it has also won the Danish Cup on seven occasions. The club forms great rivalry with Copenhagen’s suburban club Brondby IF with games between the two club attracting some of the biggest crowds in Danish football history in this so called New Firm derby.
Through its history F.C. Copenhagen have participated in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League, while their major European accomplishments have been achieved in the Royal League, with the Danish powerhouse winning two titles and coming as runners-up on one occasion.
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