Henry Onyekuru is Galatasaray’s poster boy for today’s famous Istanbul Derby at Fenerbache with fans bullish the Nigeria star could conjure the magic to beat their fierce city rivals, like he did a year ago.
Onyekuru endeared himself to the ‘Gala’ fans when he scored a goal and provided an assist in a 3-1 win at their rivals on February 23, 2020.
Playing in front of over 45,000 fans, ‘Gala’ fell behind after just 21 minutes, before they fought back with Onyekuru supplying an assist for them to lead 2-1 and he then scored the third goal deep into stoppage time.
Onyekuru boasts of a good personal record against Fenerbache – two goals in three matches.
He has also not finished on the losing side in the derby – a win and two draws.
In addition, the AS Monaco loanee has scored three goals in two matches since his third coming and Galatasaray have also won their last four league games.
Against Istanbul Basaksehir on Tuesday, Onyekuru posted the highest shots at goal – 9. He touched the ball 71 times, achieved 89.7 percent pass rate, won 11 duels and touched the ball 9 times in the opponent’s penalty area.
Today, he will be up against Nigeria-born winger Bright Osayi-Samuel, who marked his Fenerbache debut with a brilliant assist in a 2-1 win at Hatayspor.
Fenerbache lead the table with 48 points from 22 matches, three points ahead of closest rivals Galatasaray.
They have won their last three league games.
