Galatasaray returns from France with 3 points

The yellow-red team started the game quickly with Yunus Akgün's goal in the 2nd minute. Afterwards, the home team equalized with Soriba Diaoune in the 7th minute. Continuing their superior play after the 1-1 draw, Lille took the lead by scoring again with Diaoune in the 39th minute.

Galatasaray recovered after falling behind and drew the draw with Aleksey Batrakov's headed goal in the 44th minute and went to the locker room with a score of 2-2.

Starting the second half effectively, Galatasaray took the lead again with Nabil Bentaleb's own goal in the 52nd minute. Continuing their superior play, the yellow-red team made it 4-2 with the goal scored by Victor Osimhen in the 61st minute.

There were no other goals in the rest of the match and Galatasaray won the match 4-2.

Having lost to Sporting and Barcelona in the first two matches of the Champions League, Galatasaray thus received its first points in this organization against Lille.

With this result, Galatasaray managed to become the first Turkish team to beat the French team Lille.

Lille, which had met Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor 6 times in Europe until this match, got 2 wins and 4 draws in these matches. The French representative shook the net 7 times in the matches in question and conceded 5 goals.

Galatasaray became the first Turkish team to defeat Lille with its 4-2 victory.

Source: TRT Haber Açık RSS (Gündem) (Open Press / Translated Full Text)