8 August Galatasaray-Bursaspor  Turkey Super Cup(neutral ground)

Bursaspor lost some key players from last seasons squad but also made important signings especially to defence as their main problem last season was conceding a lot .They have talented players at all positions in defence and many alternatives at central midfield but have lack of alternative at forward position after they sold Enes Unal,Batuhan Altintas and Fernandao at transfer season.Last years left winger Bakambu (originally a forward)played as a lone-striker during friendlies.His performance was good but have no back-up at same quality.After they left right winger Volkan Sen out of squad they dont have an offensive rightwinger and if/when Ozan ipek is out of form they dont have a real offensive -left winger.Offensive wing positions being covered by left and right backs ,or central midfielders at the moment such as Emre Tasdemir,Ozan Tufan etc.There will be 2 or 3 new addition to squad to this positions next week.Above comments shouldnt mean that Bursaspor is much weaker compared to last season as i watched their last friendly and seemed like a quiet solid and well balanced team under management of Ertugrul Saglam.I have some question marks about new goalkeeper Mert Gunok since he couldnt show the expected improvement from himself until now.

Galatasaray made an important addition to left wing position Podolski and also a good addition to left central midfield position with Bilal Kisa. His name doesnt seem impressive but im sure will show much better performance than out-of form players Selcuk and Hamit.Central midfielder Melos career was in the beginning of a downtrend so addition of Spanish midfielder Rodriguez is also good for them.I expect Bilal and Rodriguez to cover central midfield position during season and Selcuk will probably need to sit at bench unexpectedly.
Galatasarays main problem is at offensive right-wing position.Yasin will cover there for today.Yasin and Selcuk will be Galatasarays weakest lines for tonights Super Cup game

Galatasaray is favourite but cant see a great value in odds.Galatasaray -0.25 can be tried with small stakes but i will be waiting starting hour to see confirmed line-ups.Fair line for AH -0.25 should be between 1.70-1.80 range

Score prediction 2-1