# Galatasaray v Stuttgart: Osimhen trains after Friday's knock, two goals from second on the club's European list *RAMS Park, Istanbul, Tuesday 3 November, 18:45 WAT (18:45 CET). Galatasaray are 23rd of 36 with three points, Stuttgart sixth with seven. Osimhen has eight Champions League goals for the club; Burak Yılmaz's ten is next.* Matches · Published 08:40 CET, 3 Nov 2026 · Match News (https://matchnews.news/matches/galatasaray-v-stuttgart-osimhen-fit-after-friday-knock-two-goals-from-second-on-club-list/) By Matches desk · Reviewed by Fredrik Jurek Galatasaray v VfB Stuttgart, 18:45 CET, 3 Nov 2026 (2026-11-03T17:45:00.000Z). Live odds → https://bettingbeast.com/odds/?match=2026-11-03%2C1044%2C200&utm_source=matchnews&utm_medium=referral Odds at BettingBeast, correct at 06:22 CET, 3 Nov 2026. Prices move. Percentages are the chance the price implies, before the bookmaker's margin. 18+ Home 2.21, Draw 4.33, Away 3.21. Victor Osimhen's Galatasaray host Stuttgart in Istanbul on Tuesday 3 November at 18:45 WAT (18:45 CET), the first of the night's nine Champions League games. For Nigerian readers it is the early kick-off and the one to watch: the Super Eagles striker leads Galatasaray's line in UEFA's predicted team, and he goes into the game close to a place in the club's European history books. ## Why it matters The league phase is one table of 36 clubs, each playing eight different opponents. The top eight go straight to the last 16, places nine to 24 go into a play-off round in February, and the bottom 12 are out. Galatasaray have three points from three games, one win and two defeats, and are 23rd, one place inside the play-off zone on goal difference. Stuttgart have seven points from two wins and a draw and are sixth. A home win would lift Galatasaray into the crowd of clubs on six points; a defeat, with four games left, would leave them needing results away from home. Stuttgart arrive in good heart. They won 4-2 at Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday, as we reported, and are 11th in the Bundesliga on nine points. In Europe they have scored in each of their last 11 away games in the group or league phase, according to UEFA. ## Osimhen Osimhen has eight Champions League goals for Galatasaray. Two more would draw him level with Burak Yılmaz, on ten, as the club's second-highest scorer in the competition proper, behind Hakan Şükür's 13, UEFA's preview says. He is 27, according to Legit.ng. There was a scare on Friday. Legit.ng reported that Osimhen needed treatment in the first half of Galatasaray's 4-0 league win over Konyaspor, in which he had scored a header in the 12th minute, that coach Okan Buruk took him off in the 61st minute, and that he trained fully with the squad on Monday without any reported restriction. UEFA's team-news page for the match lists no Galatasaray player as injured or doubtful, and its predicted line-up, which is a prediction and not a confirmed team, has Osimhen as the lone striker, with Barış Alper Yılmaz, Batrakov and Yunus Akgün behind him and Uğurcan Çakır in goal. The official teams are due at 17:30 WAT (17:30 CET), 75 minutes before kick-off. ## Team news Stuttgart are without Sauer (muscle), Stiller (adductor) and Vagnoman (hamstring), per UEFA, with nobody listed as doubtful. The predicted Stuttgart side has Demirović up front with Undav, Führich and El Khannouss behind him. UEFA's preview also notes that two Galatasaray players know this opponent well: İlkay Gündoğan faced Stuttgart seven times for Nürnberg and Dortmund without losing, and Leroy Sané won ten of 14 games against them for Schalke and Bayern. ## How to read the market BettingBeast's feed, which this site reads at least once an hour, had Galatasaray at 2.22 to win at 13:54 CET on Friday and 2.21 at 06:22 CET on Tuesday, which is about a 45% chance by the price and no movement. Decimal odds show what you get back for each unit staked, including the stake. Stuttgart have drifted a little, from 2.95 on Friday to 3.21 on Tuesday morning, roughly from a 34% chance to a 31% chance, most of it in the last few hours before this capture. The draw is 4.33. The goals line is 3.5, with over 3.5 goals at 2.02 and under at 2.06, which is as close to even as a line gets: the market has no strong view on how many goals there are. The chart on this page draws every capture. ## What to watch The history is against the home side. Galatasaray have not beaten a German club at home in European competition since a 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in 1992-93, nine games without a win since, five draws and four defeats, according to UEFA. The two clubs have never met before. On the other side, this is Osimhen's kind of night: a home crowd, a defence that let in two at Leverkusen on Sunday, and a club record within reach. If Galatasaray score first, the game opening up looks more likely than it closing down. That is a reading of the two sides, not a forecast. ## Sources 1. Champions League Matchday 4: Key stats and what to look out for in every game (UEFA) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/02aa-21f10edb96af-f01ebdbd9935-1000--champions-league-matchday-4-key-stats-and-what-to-look-o/ - Read 06:52 CET, 3 Nov 2026 2. Champions League predicted line-ups: Matchday 4 team news, injuries, suspensions (UEFA) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/02ab-21f9907f0a27-6a6a67e9775d-1000--champions-league-predicted-line-ups-matchday-4-team-news-/ - Read 06:50 CET, 3 Nov 2026 3. UEFA Champions League: Why Victor Osimhen May Play for Galatasaray Against Stuttgart Despite Injury (Legit.ng) https://www.legit.ng/sports/football/1739191-uefa-champions-league-victor-osimhen-play-galatasaray-stuttgart-injury/ - Read 07:20 CET, 3 Nov 2026 4. Champions League and Bundesliga standings and fixtures (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-03T05:22Z, in data/latest.json) (football-data.org via Match News) https://www.football-data.org/ - Read 06:40 CET, 3 Nov 2026 5. BettingBeast football prices, captured by this site's odds job (data/odds-series.json and data/odds-latest.json) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-series.json - Read 06:40 CET, 3 Nov 2026 --- 18+. 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