In the first match of the UEFA Champions League 2nd qualifying round, our representative Galatasaray shared their trump card with Lithuanian team Zalgiris on the road.
Yellow and Reds drew 2-2 with their opponent.
Mathias Oyewusi scored the home team’s goals in the 48th minute and Donatas Kazlauskas in the 90th minute.
Galatasaray’s goals came from Abdülkerim Bardakcı in the 75th minute and Halil Dervişoğlu in the 78th.
The return match between the two teams will be played on Wednesday, August 2 at 21:30 at Rams Park.
The ball returned from Zalgiris’s defense in the 6th minute, when Barış Alper from the left wing hit Abdülkerim Bardakcı’s in the middle of the penalty area.
Oyewusi, who moved to the back of the defense in the 17th minute, faced the goalkeeper Muslera. Oyewusi’s right foot kicked the ball away from the side.
In the 21st minute, Yunus Akgün’s hard shot to the corner from the left diagonal of the penalty area, goalkeeper Gertmonas with difficulty took the ball out.
The cake that Kerem Aktürkoğlu threw behind the defense in the 28th minute, after the Zalgiris defense’s mistake, Barış Alper met with the ball. When the player shot from the ground, the ball went out from the side.
Oyewusi, who was activated by the pass thrown behind the defense in the 31st minute, took his shot without waiting. Muslera prevented the round leather from meeting the nets with his feet.
In the 34th minute, Zaniolo met with the ball at the point that saw the opponent’s goal from the front, and the round leather ball came out from the side.
In the 35th minute, after Zaniolo got rid of his opponent, he sent a shot to the goal with his right foot. Goalkeeper Gertmonas controlled the ball in two moves.
Golubickas, who went down to the last line of the penalty area from the left wing in the 45th minute, in the middle of the hard middle, goalkeeper Muslera touched the ball before Oyewusi.
In the 45+1th minute, Yunus Akgün met the ball on the front line of the penalty area with Boey’s pass, and the ball went out from the side.
The first half of the match was completed goalless.
Zalgiris took the lead in the 47th minute. Oyewusi, who was activated by the long ball thrown in the counterattack, won the double fight with Nelsson and entered the penalty area from the left wing. In the shot taken by the player from the left diagonal inside the penalty area, the leather round went into the nets from Muslera’s left: 1-0.
In the 67th minute, Oliveira’s shot, which controlled the middle from the right wing by Mertens on the arc of the penalty area, went out of the top.
Galatasaray equalized in the 75th minute. Abdülkerim Bardakcı, who made a smooth head-on from the left wing to Oliveira’s far post, sent the ball into the net: 1-1.
Galatasaray took the lead in the 78th minute. Kerem Aktürkoğlu took the ball from the midfield for meters and left it to Mertens on the right wing. When Mertens hit the far corner, the ball saved by goalkeeper Gertmonas remained in front of Halil Dervişoğlu. Halil slid into the back post and met with round leather nets: 1-2.
Zalgiris caught the draw in the 90+1 minute. Kazlauskas’s shot from the left wing to the right diagonal of the penalty area went to the net from the far corner: 2-2.
The match ended 2-2.
HALIL DERVISOGLU RETURNS WITH A GOAL
Halil Dervişoğlu, the new transfer of Galatasaray, joined the game in the 74th minute of the Zalgiris fight. The 23-year-old striker put his team forward by sending the ball into the net 4 minutes after entering the game. Halil Dervişoğlu, who previously played in Galatasaray for 1.5 seasons on loan, returned to the yellow-red team with a goal.