The runner-up and Turkish Cup winner Fenerbahce will be on his way Olympiakou in the Conference League quarterfinals. The Istanbul team was founded in 1907, it has home of “Soukrou Saratsoglou” (47,000 spectators) and has yellow, black and white colors. He has won 28 championships, most recently in 2014, as well as seven Cups.
Made it to the quarterfinals starting from the second qualifying round of the competition eliminating Zibru from Moldova with two wins (5-0, 0-4) and then Maribor from Slovenia also with two wins (3-1, 0-3) and the Dutch Twenty in the playoffs (5-1, 0-1) to enter the groups. At group stage Fener was first with four wins and two draws. They lost only to Norgeland (6-1) and Ludogorets (2-0) away, while they beat the Danes and Bulgarians (3-1) at home and made two wins over Spartak Trnava (4-0, 1-2 ).
After 29 games in the Turkish league they are in second place with 76 points, at -2 from the leader Galatasaray. The coach of the team is Ismail Kartal62 years old.
Fener’s roster is very expensive, with the its stock market value is estimated at 201 million euros from the transfermarkt (while Olympiakos is at 110 million euros). The goalkeeper is Dominic Livakovic, Croatia’s main player, whom he acquired for 6.6 million euros from Dinamo Zagreb. The 37-year-old Italian dominates the defense Leonardo Bonucci and Chaglar Shoyunchu who was acquired on loan from Atlético Madrid. The Bosnian Rande Krunicon loan from Milan, along with the Pole Sebastian Szymanski and the Brazilian Fred they stand out in the midfield, while the Serbs are in the midfield Dusan Tadic and Turkish internationals Cengiz Uder and Irfan Kahvetsiwhile the forwards of the team are the 38-year-old Bosnian Edin Dzeko and the Belgian Missy Batshuayi.
Fener and Olympiacos had faced each other in the 2021/22 Europa League group stage, with the Piraeus celebrating two victories, 0-3 in Poli with Tikinio (6′) and Masoura (62′, 68′) and 1-0 in Faliro with Tikinio (89′). Conversely, Fenerbahce was eliminated in the UEFA second round by Panathinaikos in 2002 (1-1 at home, 4-1 in Athens) and by PAOK in the Europa League playoffs in 2010 (1-0 in Toumba and 1-1 in overtime in Polis), however in 2015 in the same phase they eliminated Atromitos with two wins (3-0, 0-1).
Source: Sport Fm
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