Beşiktaş visit Celtic in Europa League week four

Beşiktaş travel to Celtic Park in Glasgow to face Celtic in the fourth week of the UEFA Europa League, according to a report by Fotomac. The match is scheduled for Thursday, 5 November at 23:00 and will be broadcast live on TRT 1.

Beşiktaş have taken seven points from their first three league-phase games, with two wins and a draw, and sit eighth in the table. They opened with a 4-1 win over Olympique Marseille, beat Hoffenheim 3-2 away and drew 2-2 at home to Crystal Palace, scoring 17 goals and conceding six across those matches. Celtic have lost all three of their games and are 35th.

Captain Orkun Kökçü, who has been out injured, is expected to return to the squad, with reports saying he is planned to start on the bench and be used depending on how the game develops; his exact role will be settled by the coaching staff and the official match squad.

The match will be Beşiktaş's 268th in European competitions. In their previous 267 they recorded 104 wins, 51 draws and 112 defeats, scoring 365 goals and conceding 401. Sascha Stegemann of the German Football Association will referee.