Fenerbahçe vs Eyüpspor: Ahmed Abdullahi keen on rare win — Preview, team news, tips & H2H

Fenerbahce host Eyüpspor in Süper Lig round six on Sunday, September 20, 2026, and for one visiting player this fixture carries more weight than the fight for three points alone, Afrik-Foot reports.

Ahmed Abdullahi, the Super Eagles striker, arrives at Kadıköy as Eyüpspor’s joint-top scorer this season, level with defender Zak Jules on a single goal apiece, and he is the one attacking outlet Özhan Pulat can point to from a side that has managed only two goals in five league matches.

The hosts, by contrast, come into the weekend on the back of a run that has yielded six goals across their last five matches in all competitions, including a battling 1-1 draw away at Roma in the Champions League.

İsmail Kartal’s side sit in mid-table after five rounds, while Eyüpspor are second-bottom in 17th, with just one win from their last five league matches and no away goals all season.

Fenerbahçe vs Eyüpspor match preview

Fenerbahçe sit on seven points from five Süper Lig matches: two wins, one draw, two defeats, and eight goals scored.

That places them in mid-table, joint with Çorum Belediyespor on points and goal difference.

At home specifically, Fenerbahce have won one and lost one of their two Süper Lig matches at Kadıköy this season, scoring five and conceding four in the process, and they have not kept a clean sheet in either.

Both of those home matches produced both teams to score, and both went over two and a half goals, a pattern Eyüpspor’s visiting supporters will hope repeats itself, given how badly their side needs goals from somewhere.

Eyüpspor’s numbers tell a much grimmer story. They have taken one win from five league matches, sit on three points with a goal difference of minus six, and their away record is the division’s worst: zero goals scored and four conceded from two matches on the road.

Abdullahi’s one league goal this season, alongside a single strike from Jules, represents the entirety of Eyüpspor’s attacking output, and neither has found the net away from home.

Head-to-head record: Fenerbahçe vs Eyüpspor

Their most recent meeting, played on May 17, 2026, finished 3-3 at Kadıköy in a game that swung wildly across ninety minutes.

Eyüpspor led 2-0 inside 36 minutes through goals from Mateusz Legowski and Metehan Altunbaş, before three Fenerbahce goals in the second half, two of them from Kerem Aktürkoğlu on either side of one from Fred, turned the score to 3-2, only for Talha Ülvan to equalise for Eyüpspor in the 87th minute.

Across the last four meetings between the clubs, Fenerbahce have won two and drawn two, and they have never lost to Eyüpspor in that spell.

Fenerbahce have scored nine goals and conceded five across those four matches, an average of just over two goals a game for the hosts, and Eyüpspor have scored in three of the four, the exception being the 3-0 defeat in December 2025.

Team News: Fenerbahçe vs Eyüpspor

Fenerbahçe

Fenerbahçe have a lengthy absentee list heading into the weekend. Mert Hakan Yandaş is suspended, while Amara Diouf, Marco Asensio and Jayden Oosterwolde are all out through injury, with Asensio understood to be back in training but not yet ready to start.

Nathan Aké, Milan Škriniar, Archie Brown and N’Golo Kanté all played in the side’s last Süper Lig outing and should retain their places, with Mason Greenwood, the club’s four-goal top scorer in all competitions this season, leading the line alongside Romelu Lukaku and Kerem Aktürkoğlu.

Eyüpspor

For Eyüpspor, Abdelhamid Sabiri and Taşkın İlter are both sidelined with muscle injuries and expected to remain out into late September.

Beyond that, Pulat is expected to name a settled side built around the same eleven that lost 0-2 at Rizespor last time out, with Abdullahi again leading the line as Eyüpspor’s most reliable attacking outlet.

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The Managers: Ismail Kartal vs Özhan Pulat

Ismail Kartal is in his fourth spell in charge of Fenerbahce, having returned to the Kadıköy bench this summer.

His task now is to turn a squad missing several first-team regulars into a unit that can grind out home wins against sides below them, something that has not always come easily this season.

Özhan Pulat, by contrast, is fighting fires at the opposite end of the table. Eyüpspor have lost four of their last five matches in all competitions and have not scored on the road all season, and Sunday’s trip to Kadıköy offers little room for tactical experimentation when the priority is simply avoiding another heavy defeat.

Pulat’s task is less about outthinking Kartal and more about keeping his side compact enough to survive the spells of pressure that a rampant Fenerbahce attack is likely to bring.

Tactical Preview: Fenerbahçe vs Eyüpspor

Kartal is likely to stick with the 4-3-3 shape that has served Fenerbahce in recent weeks, with Greenwood cutting inside from the right to link with Lukaku while Kerem Aktürkoğlu looks to stretch the play on the left.

Kanté and Matteo Guendouzi give the hosts control in midfield, and with Eyüpspor having conceded eight goals in five league matches, the visitors are unlikely to press high and will instead look to sit in a compact 4-1-4-1 block behind the ball.

That approach nearly worked for Eyüpspor in their last meeting with these opponents, when Fenerbahce were caught cold early and trailed 2-0 inside 36 minutes before recovering.

With Abdullahi as the lone striker this time, Eyüpspor’s best route back into the game will again be quick transitions the moment they win the ball back, since sustained possession against Fenerbahce’s midfield trio is unlikely to be an option for long stretches.

If Fenerbahce’s full-backs push on too aggressively in search of an early goal, the space in behind is exactly where Abdullahi’s pace could be turned into an outlet, though Eyüpspor’s barren away form this season suggests they have rarely had the composure in the final third to punish that kind of opening.

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