He showed his class early the last 16 first leg match when he picked up a pass from Selcuk Inan with a deft flick past a defender before powering in a shot past Schalke keeper Timo Hildebrand to put Galatasaray ahead.
Equal top scorer in the competition with Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, Yilmaz has this season repeatedly repaid the support he has received from Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim.
"I'm pleased for Burak Yilmaz, with every day he is trying to improve and overcome his weaknesses and I'm pleased with that," Terim told reporters.
"There was only one player on the pitch using their imagination and challenging the opposition and that was Burak," said Ilhan Soyler, a sports writer at Hurriyet newspaper.
"He needed to be fed with long balls, but that didn't happen".
