Super Lig: Basaksehir 1-1 Galatasaray – Lions struggle to roar away from home

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Galatasaray held Basaksehir to a 1-1 draw in the Super Lig at the Fatih Term stadium on Saturday.

League leaders Basaksehir took the lead after a superb shot from Irfan Can Kahveci which left goalkeeper Fernando Muslera dumbfounded.

The Lions did manage to get back into the game when Eren Derdiyok equalised from the penalty spot on the half hour mark.

Stoke City loanee Badou Ndiaye and Everton loanee Henry Onyekuru both started for the Yellow-Reds.

It was Ndiaye who ended up winning Galatasaray the penalty which resulted in the equaliser.

The reigning Super Lig champions have now failed to win any of their last 13 derby games on the road against Basaksehir, Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor and Besiktas.

The result saw no change in the eight point gap between the league leaders and Galatasaray who moved up into 2nd place following Kasimpasa losing 3-2 to Konyaspor.

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Basaksehir 1-1 Galatasaray

Stadium: İstanbul Başakşehir Fatih Terim

Referee: Ümit Öztürk, Asım Yusuf Öz, Osman Gökhan Bilir

Medipol Başakşehir: Mert Günok, Caicara, Mahmut Tekdemir, Epureanu, Clichy, Emre Belözoğlu, İrfan Can Kahveci, Visca, Mossoro (min. 90+2 Soner Aydoğdu), Napoleoni (min. 67 Elia), Bajic (min. 67 Adebayor)

Galatasaray: Muslera, Mariano, Ozan Kabak, Serdar Aziz, Nagatomo, Fernando, Ndiaye, Onyekuru, Feghouli, Rodrigues (min. 46 Selçuk İnan), Eren Derdiyok (min. 83 Linnes)

Goals: min. 18 İrfan Can Kahveci (Medipol Başakşehir), min. 30 Eren Derdiyok (Penalty) (Galatasaray)

Yellow Cards: min. 31 Serdar Aziz, min. 45 Fernando (Galatasaray), min. 45 Emre Belözoğlu, min. 46 Mahmut Tekdemir, min. 74 Epureanu, min. 85 Caicara (Medipol Başakşehir)