Liverpool suffer shock Champions League defeat at Galatasaray

Liverpool slumped to a daze 1-0 Champions League decision to Galatasaray connected Tuesday arsenic Victor Osimhen’s 16th-minute punishment handed the Turkish giants victory.

The English champions were punished for the latest successful a bid of mediocre performances successful Istanbul arsenic they suffered back-to-back defeats for lone the 2nd clip nether Arne Slot.

Liverpool were beaten for the archetypal clip this play astatine Crystal Palace connected Saturday, but a bid of precocious winners person masked an unconvincing commencement since a summertime translation of the squad that strolled to the Premier League rubric past season.

Slot responded by leaving Mohamed Salah and £125 cardinal ($168 million) signing Alexander Isak connected the seat among 4 changes.

The Dutchman was scathing successful his appraisal of Liverpool’s first-half show astatine Palace arsenic lone Alisson Becker prevented an embarrassing half-time score.

However, Slot got small successful the mode of a effect successful different disjointed show from his array of prima names.

Galatasaray had been thrashed 5-1 astatine Eintracht Frankfurt to commencement their Champions League campaign.

The Turkish champions are a acold much formidable unit connected location soil, though, and made the astir of Liverpool’s antiaircraft deficiencies.

Slot’s determination to play midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai astatine right-back backfired.

Baris Alper Yilmaz gave the visitors a informing of the menace down Galatasaray’s near erstwhile helium failed to bushed Alisson erstwhile one-on-one with the Brazilian.

Liverpool should person led conscionable seconds earlier they fell behind.

Hugo Ekitike was denied by Ugurcan Cakir arsenic helium tried to circular the goalkeeper and Ismail Jakobs cleared Cody Gakpo’s follow-up effort disconnected the line.

Galatasaray swiftly broke upfield and Yilmaz was awarded a brushed punishment for a stray Szoboszlai limb into the Turkish international’s face.

Osimhen had antecedently seen a Champions League punishment saved by Alisson, but this clip converted the resulting spot-kick.

Florian Wirtz has struggled severely to present connected his £100 cardinal terms tag and is inactive waiting for his archetypal Liverpool extremity aft his effort was turned down by Cakir, portion Ibrahima Konate headed conscionable disconnected people from a country earlier half-time.

Konate’s mediocre signifier has been a large origin successful the Reds’ antiaircraft issues astatine the commencement of the play and the Frenchman astir outgo his broadside a 2nd extremity aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Alisson saved his teammate’s blushes with different prevention from Osimhen but astatine a outgo arsenic the Liverpool fig 1 suffered an wounded sprinting disconnected his enactment and had to beryllium replaced by Giorgi Mamardashvili.

Slot introduced Salah and Isak connected the hr mark, but Liverpool were inactive an impotent attacking force.

Isak fired tamely into the arms of Cakir with his archetypal touch.

The closest the visitors came to a effect was erstwhile French referee Clement Turpin intially pointed to the spot by a foul connected Konate, but overturned his determination aft a VAR review.

Instead it was Galatasaray who were inches distant from the 2nd extremity of the nighttime successful stoppage clip erstwhile Lucas Torreira drilled a changeable conscionable wide.

AFP

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