Victor Osimhen scored twice to inflict a primary Europa League defeat on 10-player Tottenham and earn a 3-2 victory for wasteful Galatasaray.
Spurs conceded 28 pictures and had simply 5 of their very own but escaped from Istanbul with a decent scoreline regardless of having Will Lankshear despatched off within the second half.
Galatasaray stormed right into a sixth-minute lead when Yunus Akgun’s beautiful volley from the sting of the field crashed into the top-right nook however Spurs responded via 19-year-old striker Lankshear, who tapped in his first objective for the membership after Brennan Johnson had squared a cross.
Nevertheless, the guests had been susceptible on the again all through with Osimhen forcing a great save from Forster after which having a objective dominated out for offside earlier than restoring his aspect’s lead with a intelligent toe-poke after Radu Dragusin gave the ball away.
Forster saved once more from Osimhen however simply 60 seconds later the striker netted his second of the primary half with a cushioned volley from Dries Mertens’ good cross.
Ange Postecoglou introduced on Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur for Brennan Johnson and Heung-Min Son at half-time – however Spurs received worse. Abdulkerim Bardakci had a goalbound shot blocked after Forster dropped a simple cross earlier than Akgun’s volley was deflected inches broad and Osimhen missed two possibilities.
Galatasaray’s Victor Osimhen celebrates after scoring his aspect’s second objective towards Tottenham Hotspur (AP Picture)
Lankshear then picked up his second yellow card, simply seven minutes after his first, for a foolish sort out on the midway line after which Forster made two extra saves.
Solanke, although, cleverly flicked Pedro Porro’s low pullback into the web towards the run of play to place Spurs inside one objective and Kulusevski might have equalised in injury-time when his long-range shot rolled broad with goalkeeper Fernando Muslera method out of his objective.
Postecoglou: Defeat was self-inflicted, Lankshear will study from pink
Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou mentioned:
“I just felt it was self-inflicted. We had really simple solutions out there to keep the ball. It wasn’t that hard. We showed it with 10 men. We just needed to be stronger on the ball and play the kind of football we play every week.
“Possibly it was somewhat bit the adjustments I made and the surroundings and ambiance, however the moments that stick out to me was giving the ball away. We had been enjoying via them fairly simply with 10 males however with 11 males we had nowhere close to that conviction and that was disappointing.”
On Will Lankshear: “Will took his objective effectively, he labored laborious for the workforce. He hasn’t had a number of expertise at senior soccer so he would have learnt rather a lot immediately. The pink card, it was a little bit of overenthusiasm in that second to offer away a foul, however he’ll study from that.”
Opta Stats: Osimhen loves facing English opposition
- Galatasaray have won three of their opening four games in a major European campaign for the first time since 2009-10, also in the Europa League.
- Tottenham faced 28 shots in their loss to Galatasaray, their most in a game under manager Ange Postecoglou; it is the most efforts faced by an English team in a Europa League group stage match since Everton faced 39 shots against Wolfsburg in November 2014.
- Victor Osimhen has scored 12 goals across his 23 starts in major European competition, netting more times against English opposition than any other nation (2 vs Tottenham, 2 vs Leicester, 1 vs Chelsea).
- Tottenham’s Will Lankshear (19y 201d) became the third youngest player to both score and be sent off in a Europa League game after Aleksandar Mitrovic for Partizan Belgrade in November 2012 (18y 67d) and Federico Chiesa for Fiorentina in December 2016 (19y 44d).
