As part of the second qualifying round of the Champions League, Dynamo Kyiv will travel to Istanbul to face Fenerbahce. We will remind you that the first match in Łódź ended with a score of 0:0.
Photo: isport.uaISPORT has studied the composition of the opponents and presents a number of their outstanding features.
There have never been direct transfers between Dynamo and Fenerbahce, but three footballers played for both clubs: Serhiy Rebrov, Jermaine Lance and Oleksandr Karavaev, who still plays for Kyiv.
In the current transfer window, the "yellow canaries" are active in the transfer market, which is due to the arrival of a new coach in the person of Georges Jesus, who is rebuilding the team for his style of football.
Diego Rossi (€5.5 million), Joao Pedro (€4.6 million), Lincoln (€3.5 million), Willian Arao (€3 million), Emre More (€2 million), Joshua King (free agent) and Thiago Cucur (€250,000).
There were no transfers to the exit either. The Istanbulites got rid of Ozan Tufan (€3 million in Galle City) and Arda Kurtulan (€200,000 in Adana Demirspor). Mesut Ozil (contract termination), Luiz Gustavo (free agent), and well-known Ukrainian fans Jose Sosa (free agent) and Allahyar Sayyadmanes (for 4 million euros in Gull City) also left the club.
The authoritative German portal Transfermarkt values Fenerbahce at a rather modest 181 million euros by today's standards. The most expensive footballers are Altai Bayindir (€16 million), Diego Rossi (€14.5 million), Kim Min-ja (€14 million), Joao Pedro (€12 million) and Attila Shalay (€12 million).
In turn, Viktor Tsygankov, who is valued at 25 million euros, is the most expensive football player in Dynamo. The top 5 also include: Ilya Zabarnyi (15 million euros), Mykola Shaparenko (10 million euros), Georgy Bushchan (9 million euros) and Vitaly Buyalskyi (7 million euros), but the total cost of the Kyiv team is only 119.05 million euros, which is less than their Turkish opponents.
Other interesting facts about the teams:
— The average cost of one football player in Dynamo is 3.3 million euros compared to 5.1 million in Fenerbahce.
— Dynamo players are somewhat younger: the average age of the Kyiv roster is 25.6. In Fenerbahce, the average age is 26.2
— Fenerbahce was slightly ahead of Dynamo in terms of the number of performers who play in the national team. In Mircea Lucescu's wards, 20 players of various ages are called up to the national team, compared to 21 in Georges Jezus's team.
— The "yellow canaries" have a total advantage in terms of the number of legionnaires. There are 20 members of the Turkish team (Korean, Congolese, Hungarian, Sierra Leonean, Slovenian, Greek, Italian, Tanzanian, Ecuadorian, Nigerian, Czech, Norwegian, 2 Portuguese, 2 Germans, 2 Uruguayans, 2 Brazilians). In turn, the "white and blue" have only eight footballers whose main citizenship is not Ukrainian citizenship (Brazilians Vitinho and Sidklay, Pole Kendzor, Slovenian Verbych, Nigerian Benito, Dane Duelund, Belgian Kargbo, Ghanaian Kadiri), but even among them only two are currently in the main team.
