Fenerbahce vs Rangers Prediction, Starting Lineups and Odds: Tonight's 7/2 first goalscorer bet
With kick-off just moments away, Rangers prepare to face Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce in the first leg of their Europa League knockout tie. The Scottish side earned this clash by finishing in the top eight of the League Phase, while Fenerbahce secured their spot with a commanding 5-2 aggregate win over Anderlecht in the playoffs.
The action gets underway shortly at 17:45 in Istanbul, with live coverage on TNT Sports 2.
Fenerbahce vs Rangers Predictions
This looks like a good time to be hosting Rangers, who are on the hunt for a new manager and have Barry Ferguson in interim charge following the sacking of Philippe Clement at the end of February.
Gers are now 16 points behind fierce rivals Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race after losing two of their last three league assignments, which includes a 2-1 defeat at home to Motherwell last time out.
With Fenerbahce on an 18-game unbeaten run and having won nine of their last ten at home, this looks like an ominous task for the confidence-starved Gers and they should be embracing themselves for a hostile atmosphere.
That said, for all their recent success, the Yellow Canaries have kept only two clean sheets in ten Europa League assignments this term and may be vulnerable to the Scottish side on the counter-attack.
So Fenerbahce can seize the initiative ahead of next Thursday’s return trip at Ibrox, but Rangers have scored in all eight Europa League matches this season, which includes against Tottenham and Manchester United, and may grab a much-needed consolation.
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Youssef En-Nesyri has thrived since joining Fenerbahce from Sevilla in the summer and the Moroccan international looks the likeliest candidate to open the scoring in Istanbul.
A move to Turkey represents a drop in class for En-Nesyri, who has racked up 23 goals in 37 appearances this season, with six of those strikes coming from just ten starts in the Europa League.
The 27-year-old has failed to score in only three of his last 15 appearances and is sure to cause plenty of problems for a Rangers backline that are now without a clean sheet in seven.
Fenerbahce vs Rangers Starting Lineups
The starting lineups for Fenerbahce vs Rangers can be viewed in the graphic below:
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | İrfan Can Eğribayat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | Yusuf Akçiçek | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Milan Škriniar | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Çağlar Söyüncü | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Filip Kostić | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Sofyan Amrabat | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | Sebastian Szymański | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Mert Müldür | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Dušan Tadić | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Edin Džeko | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Youssef En-Nesyri | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Alexander Kwabena Baidoo Djiku | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | İrfan Can Kahveci | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Dominik Livaković | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | Allan Irénée Saint-Maximin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | Anderson Souza Conceição | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | Cenk Tosun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | Şükur Toğrak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Mert Hakan Yandaş | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Osman Ertuğrul Çetin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Butland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Robin Pröpper | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | John Francis Souttar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | James Henry Tavernier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Jefté Vital da Silva Dias | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Nicolas Thierry Raskin | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Connor Clark Barron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Rıdvan Yılmaz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Mohammed Baba Diomandé | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Václav Černý | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Cyriel Kolawole Dessers | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Nedim Bajrami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Leon Aderemi Balogun | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | Findlay Curtis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Ianis Hagi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Dujon Henriques Sterling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Hamza Igamane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Liam Patrick Kelly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Thomas Morris Lawrence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Ross McCausland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Clinton Nsiala-Makengo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Danilo Pereira da Silva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Bailey Rice | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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