Victor Osimhen got two assists as Galatasaray will take a three-goal lead to Turin after coming from behind to beat Juventus 5-2, in Tuesday’s first leg of their Champions League knockout phase play-off clash.
Galatasaray trailed 2-1 at half-time but produced a superb fightback to lead 3-2 by the hour mark through goals from Noa Lang and Davinson Sanchez.
That came after Juventus had launched an excellent response of their own to complete a 17-minute first-half turnaround, through Teun Koopmeiners’ double, after going behind to Gabriel Sara’s opener on 15 minutes.
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However, the second half went from bad to worse for the Serie A side.
Half-time substitute Juan Cabal received a second yellow card just 21 minutes after his introduction to leave Juventus a goal and a man down.
The Turkish champions were relentless in attempting to make their man advantage count.
Lang punished lax Juventus defending for his second on the night off an Osimhen assist.
Then in the 86th minute Osimhen set up Sacha Boey who added a late fifth to put Okan Buruk’s side in firm control of the tie.
Meanwhile, the return leg takes place in Turin on Wednesday.
By James Agberebi
5 Comments
10 goals in two games yet zero goal! It’s bothering not like Osimhen!
However his work rate can’t be questioned..His high press manufactured 4 of the 10 goals.
Juventus and Spaletti knows him having spent a few of his football history in Italy,so it wasn’t a surprise he was a marked man,the focus on Osimhen gave others the opportunity to shine!
The battle is just halfway though.Galatasaray made the most of the less man disadvantage of the opposition to destroy Juventus who may need plenty of such luck to get back in contention in the 2nd leg.
They are just lucky that this is not the juventus squad when we had iconic talents like Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli, Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal, Claudio Marchisio, Paul Pogba, Carlos Tevez, Alvaro Morata etc…
This current juve squad is washed up with all due respect to spalleti….
……you forgot to add Michelle Platinii, Paulo Rossi, Marco Tardelli, Stefan Tacconi and hard-as-nail defender Antonio Cabrini……..??? LMAOoooo
Hahaahah, I laughed in Swahili, pls Sir, you can call those guys back. What a funny guy .
Hehehehe even Esther okorokwo of the super falcons will get a very good rating against this current juventus squad that lacks the famous bbc wall of those days…thats bonucci, chiellini and barzagli
Hahahaha…I am not sure of a 8.0 but I am sure of a 7.0 rating from her…hahaha