Altay, who will face Galatasaray at home on Sunday in the Spor Toto Super League, is making plans to bring the yellow-red team to his knees after 22 years and renew hope, the last time he defeated in 2000. Black-and-whites defeated Galatasaray 1-0 with a goal from Telat Özden on 12 May 2000, at İzmir Atatürk Stadium in the 1999-2000 season, when they were relegated in the Super League. He couldn’t get a tooth. While the İzmir representative was defeated by the yellow-red team 2-1 at home and 5-0 away in the 2002-03 season, when the representative of İzmir was relegated again, Galatasaray became the smiling side with a score of 2-1 in the Turkish Cup match played in İzmir in 2009. The appointment played in Istanbul in the first half of this season ended in a 2-2 draw.
Tuna Üzümcü, the sporting director of Altay, said that they were preparing for the Galatasaray match with the password of 3 points if they were in the 17th place, 10 points behind the relegation threshold, 5 weeks before the end of the league, and if they were defeated this week, their opponents may be relegated according to the results. Tuna Üzümcü, who stated that they want to leave the match between Galatasaray and Atakaş Hatayspor (D) with at least 4 points and will host their closest rival Giresunspor by melting the points difference, said, “We will continue to hope for the last 2 weeks with 7 or 9 points we will collect in these 3 games. We want to enter,” he said.
It was stated that it was difficult for left-back Naderi, who had pain in his groin, to play in Altay, where the treatment of Deniz and Özgür continued. Paixao and Murat were also excluded from the Izmir team.