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Thank you so much for joining me. Here’s Nick Amis reporting from Istanbul.
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Poor Will Lankshear will look back on this game with mixed feelings, having scored his first goal for the club and then been sent off. With a full complement of players, I think Tottenham could have equalized because Galatasaray were very tired at the end.
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One hopes that Tottenham will learn some lessons after losing for the first time in the competition. Gala now tops the 36-team table.
Participate full time! Galatasaray 3-2 Tottenham
What an amazing match and a well deserved victory for Galatasaray.
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Minute 90+6: Tottenham win a free kick on the halfway line and Torreira is booked for kicking the ball away. There is no throwing it into the penalty area, as Tottenham tries to hit it, but it ends in failure.
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90+5 minutes: Gala has a very high line and Spurs will have to get over it to chase down Solanke and Kulusevski. It almost worked but Sanchez stopped Solanke.
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Minute 90+3: Tottenham had the ball in the final third but were unable to find the right pass in order to create a chance.
Muslera comes 35 yards from his goal to head the ball away but sends it straight to Kulusevski. The Swede shoots the ball from inside the party’s half, but his shot is pathetic in the end and he dribbles the ball away.
Bentancur was reserved for something or other.
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Minute 90+1: There is still time for Tottenham…
The Gala is doing its best to move forward around the clock.
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Minute 90: Add seven minutes.
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88th minute: Sarr had the chance to play through Kulusevski but sent the ball straight to Sanchez.
Boro holds his nose after being hit in the face by the ball by Bentancur.
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86 min: One last big push from Tottenham? The party looks tired and disjointed.
Sarah is out and Kutlu is on.
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84 min: Icardi is carried on a stretcher and does not look happy. Batshuayi is coming.
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Minute 82: Icardi tries to pressure Forster, but he falls to the ground in pain. There appears to be a problem with his knee, which is a bad one, as no contact is made.
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Minute 80: Demiray and Gelert come on, Osimhen and Yunus Akgün come on.
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Minute 78: Solanke tries to break away, but Sanchez stops it with a muscle challenge. Some may consider it a mistake, but the referee is not.
On the other end… Yunus Akgün shoots from inside the penalty area, but pulls his attempt out of the field and then collapses with a muscle spasm.
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Minute 77: No goal! Ziyech performs very well in the middle of the field and passes the pass to Icardi but he was offside two yards out when he received the pass, before slotting it into the net.
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Minute 75: Corner kick from the right. Ziyech cuts the ball and Bissouma cuts the resulting cross, but he faces a problem. The ball went back into the penalty area but Eckard made a mistake in his lines.
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Minute 73: Ziyech enters, Mertens exits.
“The only way tonight could get worse for Spurs is if Lancashire uses all the hot water in the visitors’ bathroom,” Peter Oh wrote via email. It is definitely closer to the bathing culture in Türkiye.
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Minute 71: Osimhen goes down holding his head. I think he’s just trying to get Dragocin, who is in custody, into trouble. Maybe I’m just a sarcastic old man… No, I saw the challenge, nothing happened.
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Boro sends the ball to the front post, which Solanke taps in beautifully. Game on?
Tottenham Hotspur player Dominic Solanke’s reaction after scoring the second goal. Photography: Umit Bektaş – Reuters
Updated at 14.23 EST
Minute 68: Bentancur passes a random pass inside his own half and goes directly to Torreira. If Tottenham lose the ball so easily in their own half again, I will write to the MP.
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Minute 66: Solanke and Sarr come on, Maddison and Bergvall come on.
Kulusevski appears to be on the rise.
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65 min: More bad news for Tottenham as Kulusevski goes down clutching his shoulder after an awkward landing.
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Updated at 14.12 EST
Minute 64: Bissouma was booked due to the referee’s complaint about the red card.
A 3-1 loss would be a good result for Tottenham now.
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62 min: I can’t see the 10 men changing this.
Speaking of… Yilmaz shoots from 18 yards and Forster blocks the ball straight into the danger area but is cleared by Spurs’ leg before Icardi can finish.
Yunus Akgün then fired a shot towards the top corner, which Forster incredibly managed to stop.
Common red card! Lancashire
60 Minutes: Lancashire is stripped of his possessions and becomes incredibly frustrated, believing himself to be the victim, and then falls in love with Sarah. He’s booked and this is his second of the match. On the upside, he makes the mistake next to the tunnel and doesn’t have a long way to go.
Referee Lawrence Visser shows a red card to Will Lancashire. Photograph: Burak Kara/UEFA/Getty Images
Updated at 14.28 EST
58 min: I’m starting to find it quite embarrassing for the Premier League when I watch Spurs attempt a pass from the back.
Lancashire gets his second chance of the game, circling inside the box but cannot produce enough force and Muslera falls to the ball.
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56 min: More horrific play at the back gives Icardi’s gift a chance but he can’t stretch long enough to connect with Osimhen’s cross.
Not that he needs to worry as Spurs are quite willing to give the ball away seconds later, and Icardi shoots the ball wide, only to see it blocked.
About three seconds later, Osimhen shot from six yards out but Forster almost made the save.
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54th minute: Lancashire were booked for striking a Gala defender on the chest. He seems a frustrated character despite his goal.
Sarah has now been warned for withdrawing Maddison but Spurs made the most of it.
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52 min: Bentancur shows some great skill in the center circle but Lancashire can’t hold on to the subsequent pass.
At the other end, Osimhen lurks at the penalty spot and gets a free header from Mertens’ cross, but sends it over the crossbar.
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51st minute: Yunus Akgün almost got the second goal when he fired a half-empty corner kick towards goal, but it bounced off Dragosin’s head.
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Minute 49: Kulusevski fouls Osimhen. Forster is the latest to make a huge mistake. He came to have a simple shot from a free-kick but dropped the ball without any pressure, Gala made some bites at the cherry but somehow Spurs managed to keep it away.
I wasn’t afraid of losing my job to AI, but I think robots can cover that match. Tottenham give the ball away, and Gala shoots.
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Minute 47: Tottenham are good at passing from the back, which led to Icardi having a good opportunity, but he shot the ball over the crossbar from inside the penalty area.
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peep! peep! peep! here we go again!
Bentancur and Kulusevski come on for Tottenham – Johnson and his son out.
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Alternative reading.
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acceptable …
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Read half the time.
End of the first half: Galatasaray 3-1 Tottenham
What a relentless 45 minutes. Spurs were the architects of their own downfall with some woeful attempts to swoon from the back and gift Osimhen goals in the process after working hard to get back into the game.
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45+1 minutes: I watch Tottenham pass the ball from behind with my fingers and I don’t even support them.
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45 minutes: Three additional minutes.
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Minute 43: Tottenham like to give the ball away. Madison has barely been involved so far and that needs to change.
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41 min: Osimhen is really good, isn’t he? I wonder if Manchester City would like to challenge Haaland in January…
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goal! A brilliant cross from the right from Mertens found Osimhen between two defenders, allowing the striker to clear the ball into the corner.
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It didn’t take long to get third place.
Victor Osimhen makes it 3-1. Photography: Erdem Sahin/EPAOsimhen celebrate scoring their third goal. Photography: Dilara Sinkaya – Reuters
Updated at 14.28 EST
39 min: It should be 3-1 after more pointless passes around the back from Spurs result in Osimhen one-on-one with Forster but the goalkeeper does well to make the save.
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Minute 38: Icardi cuts the ball from the left side and shoots into the far corner, but his shot is wide of the goal.
Spurs broke down the other end but Son’s run down the wing was curtailed by a clip of Sanchez’s ankles.
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Minute 36: Video Assistant Referee checks for a possible red card for Bissouma due to a challenge with Icardi. This seems like a waste of everyone’s time because it’s barely a reservation.
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Minute 34: Just to add, Dragosin was booked for a foul while making the goal. A glorious responsibility.
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goal! What a stupid goal to give up. Davies passes the ball to his partner in central defense, Dragosin, who opens his body because he does not feel any danger, but Icardi immediately takes the ball away from him and then Mertens passes the ball to Osimhen to score. Dragusin looks unconvincing when I see him.
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Glorious incompetence from Tottenham.
Galatasaray’s Victor Osimhen scores his team’s second goal against Tottenham’s Fraser Forster. Photograph: Burak Kara/UEFA/Getty Images Share
Updated at 13.50 EST
30 minutes: No goal! Muslera shoots the ball into the middle of the field and Galatasaray holds it in the final third. Mertens cuts the ball over the defense to Osimhen in space, allowing him to turn it into the net. The only problem was that he was offside by one yard, much to his surprise.
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Minute 29: Osimhen takes the ball from his teammate and sends a dangerous cross on the six-yard line, but no one can reach the end of it.
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Minute 27: A corner kick from the right by Gala leads to a second corner kick. Sarah swings it in but it is cleared off the front post by Burrow.
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25 minutes: Sara overcomes the pressure and passes the ball to Osimhen, who catches the pass inside the box, but Forster is level with her and makes a save on the edge of the box, where Mertens lurks. The Belgian cannot control his shot and sends the ball wide.
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23 minutes: Emails from Bogdan Kotarlik: “The loud atmosphere at a football match for me was November 1988, Champions Cup, Red Star Belgrade – AC Milan. There were about 90,000 fans and they all screamed and screamed and waved their scarves. It was Really crazy, I couldn’t hear my best friend who was in the stands next to me. Later in the match, with Red Star leading 1-0 and more than one player due to the red card for Milan’s Verdes, the match was canceled due to the thick fog, it felt crazy Chills all the time and when the fog came in midway through the second half we didn’t know what was going on, the crowd was still noisy and the fog was very thick so we didn’t know what was happening on the pitch. Those were the days, real fans, proper football Some great players and a lot of memories.
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