The Turkish club will start the final with its youth team, and plans to boycott the game by starting it with nine players and removing three due to ‘injury’.
The eternal rivals in Turkey, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe are set to meet in the 2023 Super Cup with the game originally organized by Saudi Arabia on December 30 in Riyadh and subsequently postponed after the Turkish sides planned to wear Atatürk (founder of the nation) t-shirts ahead of the game. The match was rescheduled and is now set to go ahead today, Sunday (7 April) in Sanliurfa, a city in the southeast of Turkey, affected by the 2023 earthquake.
The Galatasaray expedition has made the journey from Istanbul to the host city and will field a strong XI with Fenerbahçe planning to field their U-19 team as a manner of protest. The ‘Canaries’ will only field nine players and upon the referee’s whistle, three of these will be forced to leave the field through ‘injury’. As a consequence, the match official will be forced to abandon the match with only six players Fener players on the field of play. The game will inevitably be awarded to Galatasaray, but due to the nature of the ‘win’, Cim-Bom will not be able to hold a winner’s ceremony.
Fenerbahçe are angered with the Turkish Football Federation with their response to the recent on-field violence their players suffered away to Trabzonspor last month and aware that if they fail to field a team in the Super Cup final, a two year ban from the Turkish Cup will be the outcome.
Speaking to the media ahead of today’s game, Galatasaray coach, Okan Buruk, was asked at the press conference about the Super Cup: “We are very happy to be in Sanliurfa. We saw how excited people were but it would be much better if both teams were
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