Our Galatasaray faced RAMS Başakşehir in the 19th week match of the Trendyol Super League Şamil Ekinci Season. We won the match played at Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium 2-1.
Barış Alper Yılmaz scored our goals in the 42nd and 59th minutes. Başakşehir scored with Piatek in the 53rd minute. Our Lions increased their score to 50. Our unbeaten streak on the road has increased to 20. Okan Buruk’s students continued their undefeated run in the season.
After this match, we will prepare for the Hatayspor match.
RAMS Basaksehir XI: Muhammed, Kemen, Hamza, Opoku, Lima, Onur, Keny, Ömer Faruk, Deniz, Davidson, Piatek.
Galatasaray XI: Fernando Muslera, Kaan Ayhan, Ismail Jakobs, Davinson Sanchez, Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Lucas Torreira, Kerem Demirbay, Dries Mertens, Barış Alper Yılmaz, Yunus Akgün, Victor Osimhen.
Our team, which was the dominant side in the first half with front pressure and foot passes, could not turn its struggle into the desired positions in the first minutes, but got the goal chances it wanted in the last quarter.
While Hamza Güreler’s hand intervention in the penalty area was not evaluated as a penalty by the referee committee, the game became lively with Abdülkerim Bardakcı’s header after Kerem Demirbay’s cross. Goalkeeper Muhammed deflected the ball to the corner at the last moment.
In the 30th minute, Barış Alper had a clear position after Yunus’ pass, but Hamza intervened at the last moment and prevented the ball from going to the goal.
We found the goal we were looking for in the 42nd minute. With Mertens’ aggressive pressure in front, goalkeeper Muhammed’s pass remained weak. After the back and forth between Barış Alper Yılmaz and Osimhen, Barış made a hard shot between the goalkeeper’s legs: 0-1. Our player commemorated our former player by showing Ahmet Çalık’s jersey while celebrating the goal.
The home team looked dangerous for the first time in the two-minute extra time, as Osimhen’s dangerous shot from the top of the arc narrowly missed the post. Abdülkerim made a vital intervention in Ömer Faruk’s shot in the penalty area. We entered the dressing room with a 1-0 advantage.
In the first minutes of the second half, Jakobs moved Barış Alper to the line with a beautiful pass. Osimhen could not make the shot he wanted to cross the ball to the back post.
Coming with long balls, Başakşehir equalized with Piatek: 1-1.
Barış Alper came on stage again and showed off his magic left foot. Our player hit the corner on the right diagonally, which the goalkeeper unexpectedly blocked, and found the net from the corner: 1-2.
Immediately after the goal, Mertens was very close to scoring a cross from Jakobs to the front post, but the ball hit the goalkeeper and went to the corner. .
In the 68th minute, Torreira’s backhand shot hit the post. After this position, Yunus saw Osimhen running behind the defense. His shot hit the defense and went into the corner.
In the 75th minute, Roland Sallai entered the game instead of Kerem Demirbay. Mertens was replaced by Berkan Kutlu in the 83rd minute.
As the positions gave way to an intense struggle in general, Victor Nelsson and Batshuayi entered instead of Victor Osimhen and Barış Alper at the beginning of the 6-minute overtime.
Our team defended well in the remaining minutes and did not give the opponent any positions, and won the match 2-1.
