The Galatasaray of Dávinson Sánchez debuts as a local in the Champions League 2025-26 against Liverpool. The Turks need to get up after the win suffered in Frankfurt, while the English seek to stay undefeated and leaders in the League phase.
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This Tuesday, Istanbul will be the scene of one of the most attractive matches of the second day of the UEFA Champions League 2025-2026 League phase. Galatasaray receives Liverpool in the RAMS Parkin a duel that will mark a good part of both's destiny in the competition.
For the local set, the commitment has a particular weight. The debut in Europe was a hard blow: defeat 1-5 in his visit to the Eintracht Frankfurt, with an unfortunate autogol of the Colombian Dávinson Sánchez including. However, the team of Bad He arrives with renewed air after his solid start in the Turkish Super League, where he adds perfect score in seven days, with Mauro Icardi as a great figure.
The event in Istanbul is the first presentation of the “lions” before its audience in this Champions and represents the opportunity to start climbing positions in the table. “Our goal is to win this party. We have to show our rival our strength at home,” Buruk warned at a press conference, confident that the intensity and contribution of the entire squad will make a difference.
Liverpool that does not want to give ground
A Liverpool with the pressure of confirming your favoritism. The Anfield beat Atlético de Madrid 3-2 in their European debut, but come from stumbled in the Premier League when 1-2 fell against Crystal Palace. Maintaining the undefeated is the goal, and the clash in Türkiye is presented as an opportunity to establish itself at the tip of the League.
The Egyptian Mohamed is wrongalready with two goals and two assists in the season, it is the most reliable letter of a team that bets on the hierarchy of its figures to impose itself in a hostile environment like that of Istanbul.
A distant history
They have spent almost two decades since the last time both teams met in Champions. It was the December 5, 2006also in the group stage, with Turkish triumph 3-2 in Istanbul. That victory is still remembered in the Ottoman club as one of its great European nights, a mirror in which they will try to look to challenge the powerful Liverpool.
The previous one is marked by contrasts: a solid galatasaray in its league but beaten in Europe, in front of an irregular Liverpool in England but effective in the maximum continental tournament. For Dávinson Sánchez, Icardi and company, the shock represents much more than three points: it is the occasion to demonstrate that the initial stumbling was an accident and that the RAMS Park It can be a strength in Champions.
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