Fenerbahce beat Gazieshir Gaziantep 5-0 at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in their opening Super Lig game of the season on Monday 19 August.
The Yellow Canaries got off to a great start winning a penalty on seven minutes which Victor Moses converted.
The home side won another penalty minutes later which Moses ended up missing but summer signing Vedat Muriqi ended up scoring a cracking goal minutes later on his official debut.
Fenerbahce were awarded their third penalty on 24 minutes which Emre Belozoglu converted.
Nabil Dirar extended the Yellow-Navy Blues lead on 74 minutes and 19-year-old attacking midfielder Ferdi Kadioglu scored the fifth and final goal to wrap up a convincing victory.
Fenerbahce were the only team among the big five teams – Basaksehir, Besiktas, Galatasaray and Trabzonspor – to win their opening game of the season – although they were the only team out of the five to play at home.
The Yellow Canaries take on last seasons runners-up Basaksehir away next weekend.
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Fenerbahçe 5-0 Gazişehir Gaziantep
Stadium: Ülker
Referee: Arda Kardeşler, Kemal Yılmaz, Hakan Yemişken
Fenerbahçe: Altay Bayındır, Isla, Jailson, Zanka, Dirar, Ozan Tufan, Emre Belözoğlu (min. 74 Tolga Ciğerci), Moses (min. 77 Ferdi Kadıoğlu), Kruse, Rodrigues (min. 70 Deniz Türüç), Muric
Gazişehir Gaziantep: Günay Güvenç, Djilobodji, Kana Bıyık, Toşca, Olkowski, Chibsah (min. 57 Diarra), Jefferson, Morais, Tetteh, Kayode (min. 80 Kenan Özer), Pawlowski (min. 65 Muğdat Çelik)
Goals: min. 7 Moses (Penalty), min. 17 Muric, Dk. 24 Emre Belözoğlu (Penalty), min. 74 Dirar, min. 88 Ferdi Kadıoğlu (Fenerbahçe)
Yellow Cards: min. 12 Chibsah, min. 50 Tetteh, min. 80 Jefferson, min. 90+1 Diarra (Gazişehir Gaziantep), min. 90+2 Muric (Fenerbahçe)
