On Tuesday, January 21, in Istanbul at the Rams Park stadium, as part of the seventh round of the main round of the Europa League, Turkish Galatasaray hosted Dynamo Kiev..
The hosts, with stars Osimhen and Mertens in the lineup, went ahead from the first minutes and managed to score twice - first, Sanchez accurately headed in after a corner, and later Bardakci doubled the Istanbul team's lead with a crazy long-range strike and a rebound from Tymchik.
The Turks were far from blameless in defense and allowed Shovkovsky’s team to carry out sweeping attacks, but it did not come to threats.
One of these attacks at the very end of the first half brought success - Buyalsky broke through the right flank and passed it to Vanat, who got close and shot to Muslera - 2:1.
The second half began with a controversial penalty, which was accurately converted by Osimhen.
It seemed that Galatasaray was calmly controlling the course of the game, but Dynamo veteran Andrei Yarmolenko, who came on as a substitute, had his say.
First, the 35-year-old leader of the Kiev team crossed the far post after a corner, and a few minutes later, with his header in a fight with a defender, he equalized the result.
In the end, the Galatasaray players stormed the Dynamo goal and could have snatched victory - Neshcheret saved after hitting his head on Osimhen from a lethal position.
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Goals: Sanchez, 6, Bardakchi, 21, Osimhen, 53 (penalty) - Vanat, 44, Yarmolenko, 68, 81.
Galatasaray: Muslera, Jacobs, Bardakci, Sanchez, Ayhan (Batshuayi, 86), Torreira, Kutlu (Demirbay, 73), Yilmaz (Elert, 86), Mertens (Demir, 90+1), Akgun, Osimhen.
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Warnings: Yilmaz, Jacobs, Sanchez, Osimhen – Shaparenko, Tymchik, Pikhalenok, Mikhailenko, Vivcharenko.
A video review of the match can be viewed here.
“Dynamo” scored the first points in the current LE tournament. Before this, the UPL leaders lost all six matches in the tournament.
In the final match of the main round of the League of Legends, Dynamo will play on January 30 against the Russian Football Federation.
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Earlier it was reported that Dynamo completed its training camp in Turkey with two matches per day.