Galatasaray - Barcelona

Galatasaray host Barcelona looking to recover from opening defeat

Barcelona travel to RAMS Park on Tuesday night with three points from their opening Champions League fixture and five consecutive wins in recent matches. Galatasaray lost their opening Champions League fixture and have lost two of their last five matches.

Flagside Newsroom·Published 12 Oct 2026, 15:24 · 1 hour ago·1 MIN READ

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The gap in the table

Barcelona sit third in the early standings on three points and a goal difference of plus-four. Galatasaray are twenty-ninth on zero points and minus-two. A win would take the visitors to six points from two matches; defeat would leave the home side on zero from two. The market-implied probability gives Barcelona a 71.1 per cent chance of taking all three points, with Galatasaray at 13.3 per cent and the draw at 15.6 per cent.

The recent record underlines the contrast. Barcelona have won all five of their last matches. Galatasaray have won three of their last five but lost 0-4 in their most recent match. The archive piece Gündoğan and Icardi: Man City Meets Inter at Galatasaray covers how that squad has been assembled.

Past meetings

The five head-to-head meetings on record produced ten goals and no draw. Galatasaray have not beaten Barcelona in any of them, losing four and drawing once. The most recent meeting in March 2022 finished 2-1 to Barcelona; the earliest, in March 2002, ended 1-0 the same way. Tuesday's fixture is the first between the sides in more than four years.

We are covering this one live. Follow it with us in the match centre for the line-ups when they land, the goals as they go in, and the full timeline.

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