The 21st round of the Turkish Super League this Friday at 8:00 PM will open with a match between Samsun and Gaziantep. Very likely, this match will be followed with more attention in Africa than in Turkey. The reason? Both teams have a large number of players coming from the Mother Continent.@Samsunspor 🆚 @GaziantepFK🗓 24 Ocak Cuma⏰ 20.00🏟 19 Mayıs Stadyumu 📺 beIN Sports 1#SAMvGFK pic.twitter.com/MZWyMeZbls— Reeder Samsunspor 🇹🇷 (@Samsunspor) January 23, 2025 The star of Samsunspor is the captain and undoubtedly the best player from Chad in the 21st century, Marius Muandilmaji, who has scored six goals and provided four assists this season. His teammates include Democratic Republic of Congo forwards Gaetan Laura and Landry Dimata, Cameroon’s Olivier Ntcham, Morocco’s Youssef Ait Bennasser, Guinea-Bissau full-back Nanu, and defender Marc Bola, born in London but also of Congolese origin.On the other side, Gaziantep features Ghana’s Emmanuel Boateng, Nigerians David Okereke and Godfrey Stephen (injured), Senegal’s Badou Ndiaye, and Christophe Lungoyi from DR Congo. Interestingly, in recent days, Togolese center-back Josue Homawoo who plays for Dinamo Bucharest, has been linked with Gaziantep in the media.He’ll want to forget 2024After 19 matches, Samsun is third on the table with 37 points. This is not enough to get involved in the title race (Galatasaray is the leader with 51 points), nor for second place and qualification for the Champions League (Fenerbahçe has 45), but if Samsun remains in third place and qualifies for the Europa League, it would be a historic achievement for them. The biggest in the club’s 59-year history, as the team currently coached by German Thomas Reis has only played internationally twice, in 1997 and 1998 in the Intertoto Cup.On the other side, Gaziantep holds eighth place with 26 points, and it seems that they won’t have to worry about relegation this year. In the first encounter of the season, Samsun won 1-0 away against Gaziantep in mid-August.##NAJAVA_MECA_8657694##
