{"id":60792,"date":"2018-05-08T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T09:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60792"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:59:13","slug":"leaders-galatasaray-bag-another-crucial-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/leaders-galatasaray-bag-another-crucial-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Galatasaray bag another crucial win"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Galatasaray defeated Akhisarspor 2-1 on Sunday evening to bag three more criticial points in Turkey&#8217;s Super Lig title race.<\/h2>\n<p>Istanbul club&#8217;s goals came in the first half, Garry Rodrigues&#8217; brace in between three minutes helped Galatasaray going into locker room with a 2-0 lead after first half.<\/p>\n<p>Akhisarspor also had their chances, but could not convert a penalty kick in the 33rd minute with Soner Aydogdu.<\/p>\n<p>The second half started with a goal for Akhisarspor, when striker Yevhen Seleznyov&#8217;s shot came back from the post in the 50th minute but Galatasaray defender Serdar Aziz slid by mistake and allowed the ball to go in.<\/p>\n<p>In the 90th minute, Akhisarspor&#8217;s player Milan Lukac &#8212; who was at the bench &#8212; argued with the referee and was shown two yellow cards, meaning he was sent off with a red card.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray&#8217;s striker Bafetimbi Gomis also missed a penalty kick in the 90th minute; he missed his last three penalty kicks in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The win increased Galatasaray&#8217;s points to 69, three better than second-place Fenerbahce and third-place Medipol Basaksehir.<\/p>\n<p>For Galatasaray, 4 points in the remaining 2 matches will be enough to become champions.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, Medipol Basaksehir drew with Sivasspor at home with a 1-1 score, losing two critical points in the title race.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbahce, on the other hand, won against Bursaspor 2-1 to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>Despite going down 1-0 in the 70th minute, Fenerbahce came back in front of their fans at home with goals to win the match 2-1 at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Both Fenerbahce and Basaksehir closed the week with 66 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the last match of the 32nd match week, Besiktas will play against Kayserispor at home. The Black Eagles currently have 62 points and they are sitting at fourth place.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray defeated Akhisarspor 2-1 on Sunday evening to bag three more criticial points in Turkey&#8217;s Super Lig title race. Istanbul club&#8217;s goals came in the first half, Garry Rodrigues&#8217; brace in between three minutes helped Galatasaray going into locker room with a 2-0 lead after first half. Akhisarspor also had their chances, but could not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,118,127],"tags":[77955,1700,483,1729,77956],"class_list":["post-60792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-sport","tag-basaksehir","tag-besiktas","tag-fenerbahce","tag-galatasaray","tag-serdar-aziz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78412,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60792\/revisions\/78412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}