Thirteen scored, ten conceded, nothing quiet
Second in the Super Lig, thirteen points from six games, thirteen scored and ten conceded. Those last two numbers are the whole season in miniature: no afternoon is ending early, no lead is being nursed, and the wins and the defeats both arrive with noise attached. The last entry is the one to stare at. On the nineteenth of September the match was played at Papara Park against Trabzonspor, and the score reads four-nil to the home side. Galatasaray were the away team, so that is a four-nil defeat — the heaviest scoreline against them anywhere in this record. Trabzonspor keep being the thorn. On the first of November 2025 they held Galatasaray nil-nil at home — Galatasaray's home, that one. On the fourth of April 2026 the match was at their ground and finished two-one to them, a one-two defeat in the away column. Now four-nil at Papara Park. Three meetings in the record and one goal scored across all of them, and it is not the defence that keeps going quiet. Before that afternoon the season had been lurching upward. The fourteenth of August: two-two at home with Çorum FK, the first entry of the season and two points left somewhere. The twenty-ninth: three-two over Göztepe at home, a win earned the hard way. The fourth of September: three-two at İstanbul Başakşehir — two-three in the file, the away way round. The thirteenth: one-nil over Kocaelispor at RAMS Park, the match played there, and the only quiet scoreline of the lot. Then Papara Park. Every home afternoon in front of us has brought goals — two with Çorum FK, three with Göztepe, one with Kocaelispor — and the away days have supplied the extremes at both ends. The back end of last season swings the same way, from the sublime to the strange inside a month. Three-one at Göztepe on the eighth of April. A one-one at home with Kocaelispor on the twelfth. Two-one at Gençlerbirliği on the eighteenth — one-two in the file. Then the twenty-sixth of April, three-nil over Fenerbahçe at home, the best result in this record and a derby won properly. And then the second of May: four-one to Samsunspor away, which is a one-four defeat, six days after the Fenerbahçe game. Even last November had the same flavour: nil-nil with Trabzonspor at home on the first, then a one-nil defeat at Kocaelispor eight days later — that one reads one-nil the home way. And there is a quieter thread in there too: Kocaelispor. The ninth of November 2025, one-nil to them at their ground. The twelfth of April 2026, one-one at home. The thirteenth of September 2026, one-nil at RAMS Park. Three meetings, two goals scored and two conceded across the whole lot, and the only one of this season's rows that finished without an argument. What kind of season is this turning into? The high-scoring, high-variance kind. Thirteen in the for column after six games is the weather. So is ten in the against — a lot for a side in second, and thirteen scored is the reason it has not cost more. Second in the table with a draw and a defeat against their name and goals in almost every column. The four-nil at Papara Park will sit at the front of the memory for a while, and the three-nil over Fenerbahçe is the counterweight — but the truth of this team so far is in the totals: thirteen and ten, and almost never a dull afternoon. By the numbers — Super Lig (league only): 2nd · 6 played · 4-1-1 · 13-10 · 13 pts · form WWWWL (most recent last). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.