Fenerbahçe 2-0 Anderlecht: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 8 November 2018

Result

Fenerbahçe 2-0 Anderlecht

Europa League · Thursday 8 November 2018, 15:50 UTC · half-time 0-0

Fenerbahçe · Anderlecht · Europa League predictions

Fenerbahçe 2-0 Anderlecht: match report

Fenerbahçe beat Anderlecht 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 8 November 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.

Mathieu Valbuena opened the scoring in the 71st minute. Fenerbahçe's goals came from Mathieu Valbuena (71') and Michael Frey (74'). Anderlecht did not score.

Discipline: Fenerbahçe received 1 yellow card; Anderlecht received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Fenerbahçe were 96th on 4 points from 3 and Anderlecht 176th on 1 point from 3. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Fenerbahçe lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Anderlecht in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mathieu Valbuena of Fenerbahçe (9.2), ahead of Şener Özbayraklı (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Fenerbahçe wins, 1 draw and 0 for Anderlecht.

Going into the match Fenerbahçe's last five read D-W-L and Anderlecht's D-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 60'Yellow card · Hasan Ali KaldirimFenerbahçe
  • 71'Goal · Mathieu ValbuenaFenerbahçe · 1-0
  • 74'Goal · Michael FreyFenerbahçe · 2-0
  • 76'Yellow card · Zakaria BakkaliAnderlecht
  • 79'Second yellow · Zakaria BakkaliAnderlecht

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Fenerbahçe 2, draws 1, Anderlecht 0.

Team news

Fenerbahçe line-up (4-4-1-1)

Harun Tekin, Şener Özbayraklı, Roman Neustädter, Martin Škrtel, H. Kaldırım, André Ayew, Jailson, Eljif Elmas, Mathieu Valbuena, Michael Frey, Islam Slimani

Anderlecht line-up (4-2-3-1)

Thomas Didillon-Hödl, Alexis Saelemaekers, Ognjen Vranješ, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Antonio Milic, Evgeny Makarenko, Sven Kums, Pieter Gerkens, Adrien Trébel, Z. Bakkali, Landry Dimata