Galatasaray hosted Trabzonspor in the 23rd week of Spor Toto Super League. Although the Yellow-Reds fell back 1-0 in the fight, they won the match 2-1 with goals from Dries Mertens and Mauro Icardi (p). With this win, Cimbom took his 12th consecutive win in the league.
In the 23rd week match of the Spor Toto Super League, the yellow-red team won the match 2-1 on the Galatasaray field.
The goals that brought Cimbom the victory were scored by Dries Mertens in the 18th minute and Mauro Icardi (p) in the 53rd. Trabzonspor’s only goal came from Maxi Lopez in the 1st minute.
After this result, Galatasaray got its 12th consecutive win in the league and rose to 54 points. Trabzonspor, on the other hand, had 38 points.
In the 24th week of the league, Galatasaray will be the guest of Gaziantep FK away. Trabzonspor, on the other hand, will host BiriKredi Ümraniyespor.
💥 A FIRST IN LEAGUE HISTORY!
Having scored 3 points, Galatasaray reached its 12th consecutive win “in a season” for the first time in the history of the Super League.
PARTICIPATED IN THE LONGEST WINNING SERIES IN THE LEAGUE ❗️
Galatasaray left the game with 3 points and became a partner in the longest winning streak in the history of the league by achieving their 12th consecutive win in the Super League. The previous series belonged to Mustafa Denizli. Denizli had 12 victories in the last 9 weeks of the 1987-1988 season and in the first 3 weeks of the 1988-1989 season.
⚽️ ICARDI WAS NOT EMPTY AGAIN!
In Galatasaray, Mauro Icardi carried the score of his team by scoring 1 goal and 1 assist. The Argentine striker scored against Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor in his first season.
👤 KAAN AYHAN WEARING THE KIT
Galatasaray’s new transfer Kaan Ayhan, 90+1. He replaced Dries Mertens at the minute and wore the yellow-red jersey for the first time.
⏱ MINUTES FROM THE MATCH
GOAL! In the 13th second of the match, Trabzonspor scored the big mistake of their opponent. Torreira wanted to send the ball back from Muslera to the experienced goalkeeper. Abdülkadir Ömür, who interrupted the short falling cake, faced Muslera. The burgundy-blue football player took his pass to the more suitable Maxi Gomez. This player met the round leather nets without difficulty: 0-1
In the 13th minute, Oliveira hit the ball to the right of the penalty area arc with Icardi’s pass, and the ball went aloft from the far post.
In the 17th minute, Barış Alper Yılmaz shot from the right diagonal out of the penalty area, and the ball was caught by the goalkeeper Uğurcan Çakır.
GOAL! In the 18th minute, the yellow-red team caught the draw. Kerem Aktürkoğlu, who met the ball on the right diagonal inside the penalty area, transferred his pass to Icardi on the penalty spot. The Argentine striker smashed the leather ball to Mertens on the front line of the penalty area, stylishly between his three opponents. The Belgian player sent the ball into the net with a smooth shot: 1-1
In the 42nd minute, Oliveira met behind the penalty area arc with Icardi’s pass and the ball returned from the goalkeeper Uğurcan. In the continuation of the position, Dubois’s shot from the right diagonal, who entered the penalty area with Mertens’ intermediate pass, remained in the leather round side nets.
The first half of the match ended 1-1.
Galatasaray won a penalty in the 51st minute. Yunus Akgün remained on the ground in the double fight with Trezeguet in the penalty area. Referee Halil Umut Meler gave a penalty decision on the grounds that the Egyptian football player stepped on Yunus’s foot.
GOAL! Using the penalty in the 53rd minute, Icardi sent the ball and goalkeeper Uğurcan to separate corners: 2-1
In the 66th minute, Mertens, who met the ball on the left diagonal inside the penalty area with Kerem’s pass, went to the corner with the intervention of the round leather goalkeeper Uğurcan.
In the 74th minute, Icardi moved to the right diagonal in the penalty area with Kerem’s intermediate pass, and when he could not make the shot he wanted in the position facing the goalkeeper, the defense removed the danger.
In the 79th minute, Bakasetas took a free kick from outside the penalty area, and goalkeeper Muslera prevented the ball from going into the net at the last moment.
In the 90th minute, in the fast developing Galatasaray attack, the ball hit by Boey, who entered the penalty area from the right with Yunus Akgün’s pass, came out from the far post.
90+2. The ball returned from the crossbar with the hard shot of Kerem, who was behind the six-pass in the middle of Boey’s right in the minute.
The match was completed with the 2-1 advantage of the yellow-red team.
