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14 min: Ekitike is sent scampering clear down the middle. He whiffs his shot when one on one with the keeper. Or maybe a fluffed attempt to round the stopper. Either way, the ball breaks to Gakpo, who tries to slam the loose ball home. The shot’s cleared off the line by Sanchez. Wirtz tries to tee up Ekitike again, but misplaces the pass. The hosts break through Yilmaz, who enters the box down the left … then goes over when feeling Szoboszlai’s arm flap into his face. Penalty!
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Galatasaray: Cakir, Singo, Sanchez, Bardakci, Jakobs, Lemina, Torreira, Akgun, Gundogan, Yilmaz, Osimhen.
Subs: Guvenc, Baltaci, Sallai, Gabriel Sara, Icardi, Sane, Elmali, Kutlu, Kutucu, Ayhan, Demir, Unyay.
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Liverpool: Alisson, Frimpong, Konate, van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Jones, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike.
Subs: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Gomez, Endo, Isak, Mac Allister, Salah, Bradley, Robertson, Ngumoha.
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Referee: Clement Turpin (Bourgogne).
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Liverpool make four changes to the XI that started (very poorly, it has to be said) the game at Palace last Saturday. Jeremie Frimpong comes in for Conor Bradley at right-back, Curtis Jones replaces Alexis Mac Allister in midfield, and Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak make way for Cody Gakpo and Hugo Ekitike up front. All the players stepping aside are named as subs.
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For the hosts, Victor Osimhen starts for the first time since returning from injury last weekend. Mauro Icardi is on the bench, alongside former Manchester City star Leroy Sané. Another former City favourite, İlkay Gündoğan, starts, as does erstwhile Southampton, Fulham and Wolves midfielder Mario Lemina, one-time Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira, and ex-Spurs defender Davinson Sánchez.
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The last time Liverpool played Galatasaray away, in the Champions League group stage in December 2006, they sent out a team that featured Gabriel Paletta, Danny Guthrie and Lee Peltier. They lost 3-2, Robbie Fowler with both of their consolations. To be fair, it was a dead rubber, with Rafael Benitez’s team having already won their group, the Turkish side already knocked out, and Liverpool went on to reach the final. But that did happen.
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Liverpool’s only other game away at Galatasaray was also in the Champions League, in February 2002. They drew that one 1-1, Jari Litmanen setting up Emile Heskey, part of a campaign that looked highly promising until Gerard Houllier inexplicably took off Didi Hamann in the quarter-finals against Bayer Leverkusen … but that’s a topic for another day. Anyway, it all means Liverpool are still searching for their first away victory over Gala. Will that quest end tonight? We find out from 8pm UK time onwards. It’s on!
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76 min: … and nothing comes of the free kick. Play restarts, and Salah makes off down the right again. He’s grabbed by Jakobs, who goes into the book.
75 min: Jones is sent sprawling by Torreira. Liverpool want to play on, with Salah in acres down the right and preparing to feed Bradley in the middle. But the referee blows for a free kick. The visitors fuming. Before the free kick can be taken, Sara comes on for Gundogan.
73 min: Bradley is booked for catching Yilmaz late from behind. No complaints.
72 min: Galatasaray now make their change. In fact it’s a double. Osimhen is replaced by Icardi as intended; Sallai also comes on, for Akgün
71 min: Wirtz has gone out to the left to fill in for the departed Ekitike … and he immediately delivers a fine raking cross. Bradley, coming in from the other flank, is under less pressure than he thinks, and heads back across the face of goal and out for a goal kick. That was a good chance from eight yards out.
69 min: Ekitike can’t continue, and Mac Allister comes on in his place, so there goes Liverpool’s last sub. However Osimhen insists he’s fine to continue, so Galatasaray put that change on hold.
68 min: Osimhen is back up on his feet, but cutting a frustrated figure. It doesn’t look as though he’ll be risked any further. Icardi prepares to come on in his place.
67 min: Yılmaz tries to tee up Osimhen on the edge of the Liverpool D, but plays the ball too far ahead of the striker. Osimhen stretches, but can’t control to shoot. He stays down. Liverpool counter, and Ekitike also goes down having stretched for a loose pass. On come the trainers.
65 min: Bradley has slotted into his right-back position, so Szoboszlai moves into the space vacated by Gravenberch. Salah takes over the right wing from Frimpong, with Ekitike moving wide left.
63 min: Isak’s immediately into the action, zipping down the left and flicking a shot intended for the far corner straight at the keeper.
62 min: Liverpool make a triple change. Gravenberch, Frimpong and Gakpo make way for Bradley, Isak and Salah.
61 min: … so having just typed that, the referee gets his card out. To be fair, he had zero option. Bardakcı for a tug on Wirtz’s shirt.
60 min: Szoboszlai catches Yılmaz on the inside of the boot and then moans about the free kick that’s awarded. He should be grateful that the referee is in a lenient mood, because that combo is often enough to warrant a yellow card. Just a wag of the finger.
58 min: Liverpool are currently playing like they’ve drunk far too much coffee. The passing skittish, too quick, shaky, nervous. The ball a hot potato. Can they calm themselves down? Will Galatasaray – specifically Osimhen – rue missing those two big chances?
56 min: … but Alisson has hurt himself, going down to smother that shot, and he can’t continue. Mamardashvili comes on in his place.
54 min: Liverpool offer Osimhen another gift, Konate and Gravenberch combining to miscontrol and lose the ball. Osimhen strides clear and enters the box. He opens his body and aims a sidefoot towards the bottom right, but Alisson gets down well to smother. Another huge chance for the hosts!
53 min: Szoboszlai whips into the crowded mixer from the left … straight into the nearest man, Gundogan. The ball cannons out for a corner. Gakpo hoicks that in, and Cakir palms it away.
52 min: Jones tries to turn Torreira down the left and is brought down just outside the box. A free kick in a dangerous position. Effectively a Turbo Corner. Szoboszlai to take.
50 min: Osimhen nicks the ball off Jones and advances on the Liverpool box. He’s got Akgün free to his right, but decides to shoot himself. However, in checking his stride for optimum shooting power, he allows Jones to brilliantly recover and toe-poke away from behind. Osimhen wants a free kick, but it was a perfectly timed challenge. What a waste for Cimbom.
48 min: Frimpong drops a shoulder and bursts past Jakobs on the right. He crosses for Gakpo, who is gently eased out of the road mid-leap. Then Frimpong comes again, reaching the byline down his right flank and cutting back for Ekitike, who performs a slick backflick that’s heading into the bottom corner. Cakir kicks clear.
46 min: Konate launches long down the right. Jakobs gets his header back to Cakir all wrong, and nearly loops the ball over the keeper with Frimpong lurking. The keeper stretches every sinew to claw away. So nearly a big gift for Liverpool.
Galatasaray get the second half started. No changes, though Alexander Isak and Joe Gomez have been warming up during the break.
Half-time postbag. “As much as I’m baffled that no big club made a serious play for Victor Osimhen, it feels pleasingly retro that a team from outside the big five leagues has one of the best strikers in the world on its books. It evokes a time when teams from the Balkans or Belgium were serious contenders for winning the European Cup” – Kári Tulinius
“Liverpool miss Szoboszlai badly when he’s not in midfield” – Dean Kinsella
“The referee looks like Leandro Trossard’s dad” – Gary Naylor
HALF TIME: Galatasaray 1-0 Liverpool
Galatasaray’s impressive home record against Liverpool continues apace. Can the English champions respond in the second half?
45 min +6: … but though Bardakcı’s shot pinged up and onto Szoboszlai’s arm, neither referee nor VAR shows any interest in awarding one. To be fair, that was from close range in a crowded box, and Szoboszlai knew nothing about it. But that would have put the tin lid on a difficult first half for Liverpool’s makeshift right-back.
45 min +5: Bardakcı drives the ball into the box. Ekitike hoicks it away. Galatasaray want a penalty, though …
45 min +4: … but then Osimhen barrels down the left and cuts back for Singo, whose shot squirts out for a goal kick. Liverpool try to play out from the back, and Gravenberch gifts the ball to Osimhen, who advances towards the box. Gravenberch trips him from behind, and that’s a free kick inside the D. Gravenberch is booked. No chance of a red card, as Osimhen was surrounded. But this is a big moment now for Liverpool. They have to survive this last act of the half.
45 min +2: All a bit scrappy as the half fizzles out.
45 min: There will be three additional first-half minutes.
44 min: Singo buys a soft free kick off Kerkez down the Galatasaray right. Everyone lines up on the edge of the Liverpool box. Gundogan swings the ball in, but that’s easy pickings for Alisson.
42 min: Akgün has a chance to release Yilmaz down the middle, but seriously overcooks the pass. As Alisson claims it, Yilmaz offers Akgün some beneficial advice.
40 min: Torreira high-kicks Jones and this is getting a bit spiky now. Another free kick for Kerkez out on the left. This time he sends it straight into the box … and the flag immediately goes up for some overly aggressive Liverpool pushing. Free kick. Pressure off.
38 min: A break in play so Jones can get the bloody nose Lemina’s just given him patched up. Konate needs some treatment as well, having been hit upside the head earlier in the move. Both are fixed and will be OK to continue.
36 min: Jones tries to burst into space down the middle and is crudely checked by Lemina, who goes into the book. The Gala midfielder very fortunate he only copped for a ticking-off upon bringing down Gravenberch earlier. But he’s on the disciplinary tightrope now.
