Beşiktaş and Corendon Alanyaspor named their starting lineups before their Süper Lig meeting in Alanya on 23 August 2026, with kickoff set for 21.30 at Alanya Oba Stadyumu. Adnan Deniz Kayatepe was appointed referee, and the match was scheduled to air on beIN Sports 1.
The immediate talking point for Beşiktaş was Vincenzo Italiano’s decision to start Hyeon Gyu Oh and leave Dusan Vlahovic on the bench. That choice mattered because the side had already opened the season with a 1-0 win over Eyüpspor, sealed by Vaclav Cerny, and had followed it with a 3-0 UEFA Avrupa Ligi play-off win over Kauno Zalgiris during the week. The lineup suggested Italiano was keeping faith with the players who had carried Beşiktaş through that run rather than reshaping a side that had just delivered results.
Corendon Alanyaspor’s selection was built around Victor, Lima, Aliti, Ümit, Hadergjonaj, Baran Ali, Makouta, Ruan, İbrahim, Hwang Ui Jo and Arda, while Beşiktaş listed Nübel, Taylan, Agbadou, Emirhan, Rıdvan, Salih Özcan, Orkun Kökçü, Ndidi, Cerny, Trossard and Hyeon Gyu Oh. The match was Beşiktaş’s second league test of the season, and the away side carried the edge of recent form into a ground where history has been far less kind.
That history is the part Beşiktaş could not ignore. Since February 2020, it had not won a league match away at Alanyaspor, a stretch that includes three draws and three defeats in its last six league visits. Alanyaspor, for its part, had not lost any of its last six Süper Lig matches against Beşiktaş, which gave the home side a record that sat awkwardly beside Beşiktaş’s current momentum.
So the lineups did more than name eleven players apiece. They framed a meeting in which Beşiktaş arrived with wins in two different competitions but still had to solve an Alanya problem that had lasted for years. Vlahovic began on the bench, Hyeon Gyu Oh got the start, and the answer to whether that decision was enough was left to the 21.30 kickoff.
