In the first match of the UEFA Champions League play-off tour, Galatasaray hosted Molde on the road. The yellow-red team won the match, which was the scene of a goal duel, 3-2 and the Giants League opened the door. | Galatasaray news (GS sports news)
Molde and Galatasaray faced each other in the UEFA Champions League play-off round. The fight ended with a 3-2 advantage of our representative.
Sergio Oliveira in the 25th minute, Mauro Icardi in the 29th and Fredrik Midtsjö in the 90+3 scored the goals that brought the victory to Galatasaray. The home team’s goals came from Martin Ellingsen at 8 and Kristoffer Haugen at 56.
In addition, Galatasaray’s goal against Yunus Akgün in 43 was canceled due to a foul as a result of the VAR review.
The return match between the two teams will be played on Tuesday, August 29 at 22:00 at RAMS Park.
The side that passes the round will take part in the groups in the Champions League.
TETE IS IN THE SQUAD FOR THE FIRST TIME
Galatasaray’s new transfer Tete entered the squad for the first time in the Molde match.
The Brazilian winger, who signed the yellow-red team after terminating his contract with the Ukrainian representative Shakhtar Donetsk, was added to the UEFA list yesterday after the licensing procedures were completed.
Tete, who was in the squad of the match, started the fight in the reserves.
INTENSIVE INTEREST FROM TURKS TO THE MATCH
Turkish citizens showed great interest in the Molde-Galatasaray match.
Approximately 250 fans took part in the section reserved for the guest team at the Molde Stadium with a capacity of approximately 11 thousand people, where the competition was held. Apart from this section, Turkish fans with Norwegian passports entered the stands of the host team.
The fans, who were warned not to wear the Galatasaray jersey before the match, nevertheless came to the match with a yellow-red jersey. This group of around 500 supporters was taken to a section behind the castle. In the group, besides the Galatasaray jerseys, the ones wearing the jerseys of Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor and other Turkish teams also drew attention.
APPROXIMATELY 1/3 OF THE CITY CAME TO THE MATCH
About a third of the population of Molde city watched the match in the stadium.
Molde Stadium with a capacity of 11 thousand hosted the competition, which was held in the city of Molde with a population of approximately 30 thousand in the north of Norway.
The stands were completely filled except for the places left empty for security purposes.
LINNES FAILS TO PLAY AGAINST GALATASARAY
Molde’s national football player Martin Linnes could not play against his former team Galatasaray.
Linnes, who ran the ball in the yellow-red team between 2016-2021 and returned to his old team Molde, leaving good marks on the fans, was hit in the training held yesterday. The experienced defender could not take the field in the first match of the play-off round.
Norway representative, striker Veton Berisha also left his team alone in the match due to his injury.
MINUTES FROM THE MATCH
In the 2nd minute, Eikrem’s shot from behind the penalty area arc, the ball went wide.
The home team took the lead in the 8th minute. In the corner used by Breivik from the right, the ball hit by Ellingsen, who rose in front of the sixpast, met with the nets from the far corner: 1-0.
In the 13th minute, Knudtzon’s pass, which joined the attack from the right wing, met Eikrem in the right diagonal inside the penalty area, and the goalkeeper Muslera reached out and took the leather ball into the corner.
GOAL! In the 25th minute, the yellow-red team found a draw. Oliveira took the ball in the free kick, which was won after Yunus was dropped behind the arc of the penalty area. The round leather goalkeeper, who hit the dam with the Portuguese player’s kick, misled Karlstrom and went into the net: 1-1.
GOAL! Galatasaray took the lead in the 29th minute. Icardi, who was excited by Yunus’s long pass, hit the ball with his right foot without waiting for the ball that came to the right diagonal of the six pass. Despite the narrow angle, the round leather goalkeeper met the nets between Karlstrom’s hands: 1-2.
In the 40th minute, Angelino’s deep-sent cake Icardi left in front of Mertens in an elegant way with a leather ball heel he took in the left diagonal inside the penalty area. The ball, which the Belgian football player passed over the goalkeeper, came out from the side with a small margin.
In the 43rd minute, Galatasaray’s goal was caught by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR). Yunus Akgün, who entered the penalty area from the right with Sergio Oliveira’s pass, corrected his angle and made his shot and ventilated the nets. However, British referee Anthony Taylor, who watched the position again with the warning of VAR, canceled the goal on the grounds that Mertens had fouled while catching the ball.
45+3. The goalkeeper Muslera went into the corner with the hard shot of Breivik, who entered the penalty area diagonally with the ball lost on the left wing in the minute.
The yellow-red team finished the first half of the fight 2-1 superior.
In the 46th minute, Haugen, who entered into a double fight with Yunus in the right diagonal of the penalty area, removed the leather ball. Yunus stated that his opponent played with his hand in the position and waited for a penalty. British referee Taylor, who re-examined the position with the warning of VAR, did not change his decision.
GOAL! In the 56th minute, Molde caught the draw. In the middle of Knudtzon, who joined the attack from the right wing, Haugen hit the ball that opened to the back post. Even though Abdülkerim intervened on the bouncing ball on the line, he could not prevent the goal: 2-2.
In the 73rd minute, Haugen’s left diagonal shot from the inside of the penalty area, when Boey intervened, the ball narrowly went to the corner.
In the same minute, Eikrem took the corner from the right and the ball was in front of Ellingsen in a six-pass. Goalkeeper Muslera, who had a good place in the close range shot of this player, became the owner of the leather circle in two moves.
90+3. Galatasaray took the lead once again at the minute. Icardi, who got the ball in front of him and passed an opponent, was faced with the goalkeeper after entering the penalty area. The Argentine star passed the pass to the eligible Midtsjö, while the Norwegian football player rolled the ball into the empty goal: 2-3.
The match ended with the superiority of the yellow-red team.
2023-08-24 09:00:00
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