Galatasaray 3-2 Tottenham: Victor Osimhen scores twice as sloppy Spurs are beaten in Istanbul thriller, with teenager scoring before being sent off for Ange Postecoglou’s side

This chaotic defeat won’t stop Tottenham from progressing in the Europa League, but there’s a good chance it will stick around. The tinnitus of Ange Postecoglou and his players will ensure that when they wake up in London.

Remind them that it wasn’t just a fever dream. In the first hour, Spurs were torn apart by Galatasaray. Their goal was cut open with astonishing regularity and peppered with 27 attempts from the Turks, who scored three before half-time.

Victor Osimhen provided a lesson in the art of centre-forward play and only Fraser Forster’s heroics kept the humiliation at bay before, after being reduced to ten men an hour, they sparked something of a backlash as Galatasaray ran out of energy and ultimately stayed hang. .

The boisterous home crowd, which had caused a deafening noise for most of the evening, finally whistled for referee Lawrence Visser to put an end to it.

It was breathless, brilliant and crazy. And Will Lankshear certainly won’t forget his second start for the club. The teenage striker scored his first goal and was sent off for receiving two yellow cards within seven minutes of the second half.

Galatasaray’s summer signing scored twice in eight minutes, putting his side in complete control

It was a first half to forget for Ange Postecoglou’s side, who continued to throw away possession

Galatasaray took off at 160 kilometers per hour and scored early. It was also a spectacular goal, scored by Yunus Akgun, who was on loan at Leicester in the Championship last season.

Gabriel Sara curled a free-kick into the Spurs penalty area and it was headed towards Akgun, who quickly adjusted his feet as the ball bounced in his direction and bounced back, past Fraser Forster’s dive.

The volume went up and off the scale, which must have been an experience for this Spurs team, exhausted and with three teenagers, including 19-year-old striker Lankshear making only his second start.

Lankshear turned his back on Akgun’s opener, although all criticism washed away when he equalized from close range after Brennan Johnson got an Archie Gray pass squarely across the face of goal. It was a simple enough result, but a special moment for a young striker who started out in Arsenal’s youth academy and moved through north London via Sheffield United.

However, most of Tottenham’s problems were at the back, where Pedro Porro was the only one from the first-choice defensive unit to start, with centre-backs Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven injured and Destiny Udogie and Guglielmo Vicario on the bench. .

They looked vulnerable in the face of Galatasaray’s mighty spearhead, easily unzipped and often lost in possession by the energy and intensity of the Turkish champions, roared by a feverish home crowd.

Radu Dragusin was guilty more often than most and missed a chance to stop the move that led to Galatasaray’s second, which was clinically converted by Osimhen, who was poked low past Forster with his toe-tip having gone clear from Ben Davies into space.

His second was another superb piece of finishing. This time a volley was guided just inside a post as he leapt to reach a teasing cross that was flicked in from the right by Dries Mertens. He was electric, with pace and movement to create space and deadly in front of goal.

Yunus Akgun opened the scoring for the Turkish team with a sublime volley in the sixth minute

Teenager Will Lankshear tapped the ball in from close range to level the score for Tottenham

But his evening ended in heartbreak after referee Lawrence Visser gave him marching orders after brandishing a second yellow card following his late tackle on Galatasaray’s Gabriel Sara.

During this purple patch at the end of the first half, Osimhen also had a goal disallowed for offside and was disallowed twice due to excellent saves from Forster. Galatasaray led 3-1 at the break and received a standing ovation, but it could easily have been five or six.

Spurs barely came out of their own half. Postecoglou brought on Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur to replace wingers Johnson and Heung-min Son, while James Maddison moved to the left wing as the Spurs boss looked for control, but there was no reprieve.

Forster crossed early in the second half and another Agkun volley went wide. Osimhen headed a good chance wide and was then frustrated again by the Tottenham keeper who blocked another with his feet.

Then, on the hour mark, Lankshear was sent off for a second yellow card and somehow Spurs pulled one back, with substitute Solanke crossing in front of his marker and turning Pedro Porro’s low cross over the line with a neat tap behind his standing leg.

Mauro Icardi had a goal ruled out for offside, but Postecoglou threw in more senior players and his 10 men finished the match on top.