The match offered a high tempo and full of chances. Both teams also hit the structure of the goal. One Turkish goal was disallowed by the referee due to offside. Georgia had three big chances in the end, but didn’t take them.
She conceded the third goal when the goalkeeper joined the attack. However, Aktürkoglu’s intervention can play an important role in the final determination of the ranking in the group.
Turkey had a significant advantage in the first half hour. It seemed to be weighing on Georgia that it was their first ever match at a major tournament, and the players looked around at the start.
In the 10th minute, they just watched as Ayhan leaned onto the ball from 20 meters out and his hard shot bounced off the post along the goal line but missed the target.
Immediately, Georgia also threatened, and goalkeeper Günok had to save Mekvadashvili’s spot-kick. Georgia did not succeed even from the subsequent pressure in the box. In the 14th minute, Yildiz checked the goalkeeper Mamardashvili from an angle, who tamed the ball twice.
In the 25th minute, the Turks struck. After a combination on the left side, the Georgian defense deflected the ball only on the edge of the goal. Müldür was free there, he leaned on the ball from the volley and hit the crossbar.
Shortly after the break-in, Georgia lost the ball and the Turks went on a break, at the end of which Yildiz sent the ball into an empty net, but the referee, after reviewing the video, disallowed the goal due to a narrow offside by the tip of the boot.
That was the blow for Turkey, on the contrary, Georgia added and since then leveled the picture of the game. Citašvili took the goalkeeper Günok with a hard shot from an angle. And in the 32nd minute, the equalizer came.
Kochorashvili got free on the right side of the box and his pass was used by Mikautadze, who caught goalkeeper Günok with a shot on the front post.
After changing sides, Calhanoglu threatened with a free kick, but Mamardashvili blocked his hard shot. In the 65th minute, the Turks took the lead again.
Only nineteen-year-old Güler showed why Real Madrid chose him, guiding the ball from the right to the left and hitting the crossbar from 20 meters away.
At the age of 19 years and 114 days, Güler became the fifth-youngest goalscorer in EC history as well as the youngest ever to score on debut at the Championship. He also surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo.
“I’m not interested in personal achievements. It’s about the team and I’m happy that I helped the team. I try this finish at the end of training. It was a tough game and it’s great that we managed it and won for the coach whose birthday was today, ” Güler recalled the fiftieth anniversary of Italian coach Vincenzo Montella.
“This was the best gift. It was a match worthy of such a tournament. It had great quality. We had 22 shots on goal. We just have to be more accurate. And we also have to avoid the complacency that came after the disallowed goal. But that’s part of it, Montella added.
But Georgia did not give up. Kočorashvili got into the box after a tackle, but hit the crossbar. In the 90th minute, Kočorashvili interfered with Mikutadze and neither of them managed to get the ball into the goal in a good position.
In the set-up, Georgia was close to equalizing. First, Günok sent a shot towards the post and Davitashvili’s cross was headed by Akaydin to prevent a certain goal.
Georgia also brought the goalkeeper into the attack, but they did not conjure up an equalizer due to several obstacles, on the contrary, the Turks got to the rebound and Aktürkoglu did not hesitate from the break into the empty goal.
“It’s never nice to lose, but my team has something to be proud of. We showed Georgian football in a very positive light. We had a lot of chances. We just needed a little more experience in such matches. Today’s one will push us further so that next time we will be even better,” coach Willy Sagnol said.
The match was preceded by a fan fight in the stadium
Before the start of the match, fans of both teams fought in the stadium. Riots broke out about an hour before kick-off, when a cloudburst sprinkled the stands.
In one of the corners of the arena, spectators threw objects at each other and punches were also thrown. The organizing service did not manage to separate the two camps from each other, the situation was calmed down only by the arrival of heavy-duty soldiers.
Due to a break in the clouds, the organizers were also busy at the field before the match. The enormous amount of water, which flowed down from the roof of the grandstand in huge waterfalls, had to be pushed by brooms to the drains near the lawn.
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