Thinking about their Champions League campaign, the Black Eagles looked unfocused in the early going and fell behind 1-0 just after 15 minutes with a goal from Muriqi. In the remainder of the first half, they had some serious chances to even up the scores but without success. Beşiktaş brought on their key stars with the start of the second half but lost one of them to the red card. The home side Gençlerbirliği took advantage of short-handed Beşiktaş through Scekic on 73 minutes to double their lead. Cenk Tosun cut the deficit to one from a penalty-kick 3 minutes from full-time, however, it was too little, too late.
Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium
13 OCTOBER 2017 20.00
Zeki
Cenk
Khalili - Mehmet
Muriqi - Skuletic
Oğuzhan - Tolgay
Scekic
Serdar - Rantie
Babel
Lens - Babel
Negredo - Quaresma
Muriqi
Politevich
Muriqi
Johannes Hopf
Ahmet Oğuz
Uğur Çiftçi
Sergey Politevich
Ousmane N'Diaye
Zeki Yavru
Ahmet İlhan Özek
Aleksandar Scekic
Serdar Özkan
Abdul Khalili
Vedat Muriqi
YEDEKLER
Taha Demirtaş
Mert Çetin
Alper Uludağ
Orhan Şam
Marko Milinkovic
Diallo Guidileye
Mehmet Taş
Tokelo Rantie
Petar Skuletic
Jailton Paraiba
Fabricio Ramirez
Gökhan Gönül
Pepe
Dusko Tosic
Caner Erkin
Atiba Hutchinson
Oğuzhan Özyakup
Anderson Talisca
Jeremain Lens
Cenk Tosun
Alvaro Negredo
YEDEKLER
Tolga Zengin
Utku Yuvakuran
Matej Mitrovic
Fatih Aksoy
Adriano Correia
Necip Uysal
Tolgay Arslan
Ryan Babel
Ricardo Quaresma
Mustafa Pektemek