Galatasary 2-4 Gaziantepspor
Galatasary: Muslera, Sarioglu, Zan (Cetin, 34), Ujfalusi, Balta, Inan, Melo, Kazim-Richards (Eboue, 15), Baytar (Guleslam, 78), Riera, Elmander.
Gaziantepspor: Karcemarskas, Güngör, Kurtulus , Nounkeu, Saraiva, Adin, Has (Gulle, 50), Binya, Popov, Demir (Tosun, 73), Wagner (Sosa, 86).
Gaziantepspor stun nine men Galatasary at the Türk Telekom Arena.
Having spent big during the summer the expectation at the Telekom Arena would have been nothing other than league success. Coming in to the game Galatasary would have been odds on favourites for this one and they expectedly dominated for the first half hour, Selcuk Inan scoring early on after Nounkeu failed to carry out a routine clearance from former Sheffield United man Colin Kazim-Richards cross allowing him to find Inan at the second time of asking.
Despite this dominance Gaziantepspor somehow managed to turn the game on its head before half time, the lively Muhammet Demir finishing cleverly before Popov's cracking half volley from the edge of the area gave them an unexpected lead. Servet Cetin was then sent off for pulling back Demir denying him a clear goal scoring opportunity after he beat the offside trap on the stroke of half time.
Although the ten men equalised through the impressive Johan Elmander after 65 minutes, a mistake from Muslera gave Orhan a simple tap in to put the visitors back ahead before Sarioglu was sent off for a second bookable offense bringing the ill disciplined Galatasary side down to 9 men as Tosun completed the misery a minute before time.
The victory will provide Gaziantepspor with an unexpected and timely boost after a slow start to the season whilst Galatasary will be left to rue what could have been after dominating for large parts of the first period whilst ill discipline undoubtedly cost them any chance of taking something from the game in the second half.
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