In the 4th week of the Super League, Galatasaray was away to Başakşehir. Kadir Sağlam blew the whistle in the match, which started at 20.00 at Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium.
ONE GOAL IN THE FIRST HALF
Galatasaray started the game quickly. Just in the 33rd second, goalkeeper Deniz Dilmen saved Osimhen's header after Batrakov's dangerous cross from the right wing. In the 13th minute of the match, Osimhen, who moved to the penalty area after Yunus Akgün's aerial pass, controlled the ball and shot from the spot, once again met by goalkeeper Deniz Dilmen. In the 17th minute, the ball touched by Torreira, who won the ball with the pressure of the front area, met Osimhen in the penalty arc. Osimhen's hard shot fell off the crossbar and into the goal line. Although the referee of the match, Kadir Sağlam, initially decided to continue, he showed the halfway point with the warning of VAR: 0-1.
In the 31st minute of the match, Osimhen's position by moving behind the defense resulted in offside; Victor Osimhen left the game due to an injury he suffered after the position. Istanbul Başakşehir FK player Operi, who got the ball in the midfield in the 43rd minute of the match, brought the ball to Kemen after his fight with Torreira. Kemen, who dodged Lemina and entered the penalty area, did not block Kemen's hard diagonal shot from the corner he covered. The first half ended with Galatasaray leading 1-0.
G.SARAY FOUND THE WINNING GOAL AT 90+1
In the 64th minute of the match, Istanbul Başakşehir FK won a penalty after Sallai's intervention on Fayzullayev. In the 66th minute, Shomurodov sent the ball to the right corner in the penalty kick and went into the net: 1-1. After the new transfer Leao, who joined the fight later, made a stylish move on the left and made a pass, Galatasaray found a position in the penalty area with effective wall passes. With Jacobs' last pass, Torreira hit the ball hard from the ground and hit the net in the 71st minute: 1-2. In the 76th minute, the ball bounced off the head of Davinson Sanchez, who was trying to clear the cross from the corner taken by Başakşehir, and went into the net: 2-2. Umut Bozok, who entered the game in the 74th minute, received a red card after his fight with Leao around the Galatasaray penalty area in the 79th minute. In the 83rd minute of the match, Davinson Sanchez headed Gabriel Sara's cross from a free kick and headed the ball into the net. The goal was canceled after VAR review. In the 90+1st minute, Gabriel Sara took charge of the free kick won by Galatasaray in the penalty area and sent the ball into the net with a shot to the left of the goal: 3-2. The match ended with Galatasaray leading 3-2. Istanbul Başakşehir FK Coach Nuri Şahin, who objected to the referee at the end of the match, received a red card.
THE MATCH WAS EVALUATED BY HÜRRİYET WRITERS
Hürriyet writers Uğur Meleke and Mehmet Ayan evaluated Galatasaray's away win against Başakşehir.
UĞUR MELEKE - SARA COULD GO TO THE WORLD CUP!
Galatasaray's performance in two periods in front of Göztepe last week, as different as night and day, obviously impressed Okan Buruk. In front of Başakşehir, Göztepe largely adopted its second half 11 and tactics. In Galatasaray yesterday (just like in the second half of Göztepe), Lemina started at the heart of the defense. Batrakov was in the first 11 in the number 10 role. The aim was obviously to play from the ground, increase the speed of the ball and the set attack percentage. Because in the first half in front of Göztepe, Galatasaray made 19 cross balls and 28 long balls, but could not get the goal ball down until Batrakov entered.
In the first 33 minutes yesterday, Buruk's plans seemed to be working: Galatasaray put the ball down. He caught a series of qualified passes. He scored a goal with Osimhen, and missed clear opportunities with the Nigerian center forward and Batrakov. Even though Lemina played as a centre-back, he won the ball a lot in front, and a goal was scored with Torreira's press.
RELEASE OF VICTOR OSIMHEN
With its first 33-minute performance, Galatasaray looked like it would have a comfortable day, but with Osimhen getting injured at the end of the half hour, the rhythm of the game started to change slowly. The Nigerian center forward is a player who will affect not only his team but also the league. When he left, Galatasaray's pressing intensity decreased, they started to run back more and make mistakes more often. The Abdülkerim-Lemina change in the 46th minute also increased the surprises in Galatasaray's defense. Shomurodov had a great advantage over Abdulkerim, especially between 55-65. Galatasaray's defense lost balance with each passing moment and they eventually conceded the equalizing goal.
The remaining 25 minutes were like Russian roulette. Galatasaray's defense continued to falter, and the hero of the second Başakşehir goal was Davinson... Leao, who entered the game later, offered passages of his class, and his pass and dribbles in the second goal were worth seeing. However, the real hero of the show was Sara, who made a difference every time she took charge of a set piece. "If I hadn't been injured, I would have gone to the World Cup," the Brazilian player said recently. I really wish Sara was healthy and could go to America.
MEHMET AYAN - WHEN THE CENTER HAS NO DEFENSE!
Let's hope Osimhen is on the field on Wednesday... Because the defense starts with him.
Live from the stadium: G.Saray, which was superior until the goal in the 16th minute, made the difficult situation easy with its front-field pressure, which is its greatest strength. At the center is the Torreria/Sara mind; With the energy of Yunus on the wing, it was obvious that Galatasaray would score an early goal after 35 seconds, and there was a eager Galatasaray on the field. Of course, the most important reason for this was OSİMHEN. He made Emin and Opoku (let's not ignore their friends' contributions to the front-line edition) bored with life from time to time. In addition to the goal positions he entered, the passing connections he made, the wonderful goal he scored and his other important benefits in attack, his defense was unbeatable! So how do we construct such sharp sentences? With his exit from the game...
Başakşehir's game changed between 30 and 45 minutes. They got rid of Osimhen's problem while carrying the ball forward. Naturally, Barış could not do what he did, both the defenders and the midfielders could move the center of the game forward. As a matter of fact, in the 43rd minute, we saw that Kemen got into a very important goal position and Uğurcan made a wonderful save.
NEITHER PEACE COULD BE 9, WHAT LEROY SANE LEFT FRONT
In the second half, the absence of Osimhen took its toll on Galatasaray... Kemen and Skov Olsen took the lead, and two or three positional errors by Abdülkerim Bardakcı, who replaced Lemina, were the harbingers of the goal. Neither Barış could be at 9, nor Sane at the left front... As Yunus Akgün lost his energy in the first half, the crowded Başakşehir midfield started to dominate the game.
SARA, THE HERO OF THE LAST 18 MINUTES
