#FT: Galatasaray 1-3 Bayern München
Galatasaray scorers: Mauro Icardi (Pen 30’)
Bayern scorers: Kingsley Coman (8’), Harry Kane (73’), Jamal Musiala (79’)
Venue: Rams Global Stadium, Istanbul
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Galatasaray
Muslera - Karatas, Bardakci, Sanchez, Boey - Torreira, Ayhan, Zaha, Aktürkoglu, Tete - Icardi
Subs: Güvenc, Angeliño, Nelsson, Demirbay, Mertens, Oliveira, Ndombélé, Ziyech, Yilmaz, Bakambu
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Bayern München
Ulreich - Davies, De Ligt, Kim, Mazraoui - Kimmich, Laimer, Sané, Musiala, Coman - Kane
Subs: Peretz, Sarr, Müller, Krätzig, Pavlovic, Choupo-Moting, Tel
#LIVE STANDINGS
Position | Club | Pl | W | D | L | GD | Points |
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1 | Bayern München | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | +4 | 9 |
2 | Galatasaray | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
3 | København | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
4 | Manchester United | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
First half: holy shit Gala could actually do this!
Second half: Snap back to realityGala played so well, they couldve/shouldve scored a second goal. Bayern won 3-1 but never saw them getting dominated by a weak team like this
Really just fell apart in the second half, but you can see the potential is there. Disappointing, but still optimistic.
What an absolute night and day performance. That first half will be with me forever, locking down Bayern like that, pushing your defensive line 15-20m onto their half, I’d never have imagined. Sad that we wasted so many chances but the team showed that we are ready to go head to head with the big boys, just need to build a comfortable lead when we’re putting our immense pressure early for when we inevitably drop in energy levels.
Congrats to Galatasaray. xG for Gala is 2,41 while Bayern is 1,75. Better team was Gala but Bayern won with their experience. I’m pretty confident, Gala will be 2nd in this group.
Both can’t defend and the Gala can’t finish in front of goals.
Really can’t believe Sane didn’t draw a pen
Also, incredible play from Galatasaray
Galatasaray had 3.08xG while Bayern had 1.77xG. They missed 4 big chances and ran out of gas after ~65 minutes.
Only if we could score some of our chances…. Well played to the Gala players
I can’t deal with the Thamas anymore, man. We are doing reasonably well in the Bundesliga, but in the CL, Tuchelball has been a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and worst thing is, it worked once again, so nothing will change. 75 dismal minutes, followed by Bouna Sarr as the first sub, it’s like he’s trying to making a mockery out of the concept of substitutions. Gala got tired in the end, but they should have finished us in the first half.
Tff should’ve postponed the Beşiktaş derby match
Just no.
The only UCL match from the group stage onwards that I can think of where a football federation decided to postpone a domestic match was the second leg semi-final between Ajax-Spurs, where the former was given a week off.
Furthermore, the league counts a whopping 38 matchdays this season, so there isn’t much room for postponements.
We gave them hell for 70 minutes and I feel proud of my team. If we were even slightly more clinical in front of the goal we could’ve got away with it.
BTW great performance by the ref.
Same game as Mainz we played horrible football but scored 3 goals and won the game. I don’t know how we got away with it, but just like against Mainz, I’ll take it.
First of all I want to say thank you to the Galatasaray fans who gave us a wonderful Champions League evening.
Regarding the game I want to commend Gala for what they invested into the game and how much they ran. Their pressing was really impressive and put Bayern into a chokehold that they didn’t know how to get themselves out of. At times it was a bit harakiri with no one in counter prevention as we saw with the 0-1. The deciding factor in the end was Gala not being able to score from one of the many chances they had. Around the 70th minute, Gala ran out of gas and Bayern completely picked them apart when the space was there.
Bayern needs to be better than this if they want to go far in this tournament especially since the passing was horrendous and the midfield non-existent. They also have to learn how to minimize easy loss of the balls.
Galatasaray should make it through the groups if they are able to convert there chances. They need to learn how to control there energy better and that LB is a liability