Galatasaray vs Tottenham: Europa League – live | Europa League

84 mins: Icardi is carried away on a stretcher and doesn't look happy. Batshuayi is coming.

82 mins: Icardi tries to put pressure on Forster but then collapses to the ground in agony. It looks like a problem with his knee, and a bad one at that, as no contact was made.

80 minutes: Demiray and Jelert on, Osimhen and Yunus Akgun out.

78 minutes: Solanke tries to break away, but Sanchez stops this with a muscular challenge. Some would call it a foul, but the referee doesn't call it a foul.

On the other hand… Yunus Akgun shoots from the penalty area, but goes wide of the goal and then goes down with a cramp.

77 mins: NO GOAL! Ziyech does very well in the middle of the park, letting a pass through to Icardi, but is two meters offside as he receives the pass before firing it into the goal.

75 minutes: Gala has a corner on the right. Ziyech takes it short and the resulting cross is blocked by Bissouma, but he runs into trouble. The ball comes back into the penalty area, but Icard distorts his lines.

73 mins: Ziyech is on, Mertens is out.

“This night could only get worse for the Spurs if Lankshear uses all the hot water in the guest shower.” Peter Oh emails. Certainly in Turkey it is more of a bathing culture.

71 mins: Osimhen falls to the ground and clutches his head. I suspect he's just trying to get Dragusin into trouble over a booking. Maybe I'm just a cynical old man… no, I saw the challenge, nothing happened.

GOAL! Galatasaray – Tottenham 3:2 (Solanke, 69)

68 minutes: Bentancur blindly hits a pass into his own half and the pass goes straight to Torreira. If Spurs give the ball away again without any problems in their own half, I will write to my MP.

66 mins: Solanke and Sarr are on, Maddison and Bergvall are out.

Kulusevski seems to be on the rise again.

65 minutes: More bad news for Spurs as Kulusevski clutches his shoulder after an awkward landing.

64 mins: Bissouma is responsible for complaining to the referee about the red card.

A 3-1 defeat would now be a decent result for Spurs.

62 mins: I can't imagine the 10 men turning this around.

Speaking of which… Yilmaz shoots from 18 meters and Forster parries the ball straight into the danger zone, but a Spurs leg turns it back before Icardi can finish.

Yunus Akgun then hits a shot into the top corner, which Forster does incredibly well to stop.

RED CARD! Lankshear

58 mins: I'm starting to find it quite embarrassing for the Premier League to watch Spurs try to distribute the ball from the back.

Lankshear gets his second chance of the game, turns in the penalty area, but can't muster enough strength and Muslera drops onto the ball.

56 mins: The more terrible play in defense gives Icardi a chance, but he can't stretch far enough to meet an Osimhen cross.

Not that he has anything to worry about because seconds later Spurs are very ready to give the ball away and Icardi gets a shot away only to see it blocked.

It's almost three seconds later when Osimhen shoots from six meters, but Forster just saves.

54 mins: Much to his chagrin, Lankshear is cautioned for punching a Gala defender in the chest. Despite his goal, he looks frustrated.

Sara is now booked for pulling Maddison back but Spurs made the most of it.

52 mins: Bentancur shows wonderful skills in the center circle, but Lankshear cannot hold on to the ensuing pass.

At the other end, Osimhen is lurking on the penalty spot and gets a free header from a cross from Mertens, but sends it over the goal.

51 mins: Yunus Akgun almost snatches a second when he hits a half-cleared corner back towards goal, but it deflects past Dragusin's head.

49 minutes: Kulusevski is booked for a foul on Osimhen. Forster is the latest to make a glorious mistake. He comes to catch a simple free kick but drops the ball without any pressure. Gala has a few bites at the cherry but Spurs somehow manage to get by.

I wasn't worried about losing work to the AI, but I suspect the bots could cover this game. “Spurs give the ball away, Gala shoots.”

47 mins: Spurs are really terrible at passing the ball from the back, which results in Icardi having a good chance but shooting his shot over from inside the box.

Second half

Alternative reading.

Respectable …

Half-time reading.

Half time: Galatasaray – Tottenham 3:1

45+1 mins: I have to watch Spurs pass the ball through my fingers around the back and I don't even support them.

45 minutes: Added three minutes.

43 mins: Spurs just love giving the ball away. Maddison has barely been involved and that needs to change.

41 mins: Osimhen is really good, isn't he? I wonder if Manchester City would like someone to challenge Haaland in January…

GOAL! It's a wonderful cross from the right from Mertens that places Osimhen between two defenders and allows the striker to cushion the ball into the corner.

GOAL! Galatasaray – Tottenham 3-1 (Osimhen, 39)

39 minutes: It was supposed to be 3-1 after further useless passes from Spurs led to Osimhen being one on one with Forster, but the goalkeeper made a good save.

38 minutes: Icardi is allowed to reach inside from the left and aim into the far corner, but his shot goes wide.

Spurs collapse at the other end, but Son's run down the wing is hampered by Sanchez's ankle injury.

36 mins: VAR checks whether Bissouma receives a possible red card for a foul on Icardi. This seems like a waste of everyone's time since it's hardly a booking.

34 mins: Dragusin was also booked for a foul leading up to the goal. A wonderful burden.

GOAL! What a stupid goal to give away. Davies passes the ball to his centre-back partner Dragusin, who opens his body as he senses no danger, but is immediately dispossessed by Icardi and Mertens then passes the ball to Osimhen to finish. Dragusin doesn't look convincing when I see him.

GOAL! Galatasaray – Tottenham 2-1 (Osimhen, 32)

30 minutes: NO GOAL! Muslera hits the ball down and Galatasaray keeps it in the final third. Mertens flicks the ball over the defense to Osimhen in space so that he can direct it into the goal. The only problem is that, much to his surprise, he is a meter offside.

29 mins: Osimhen takes the ball from a colleague and sends a dangerous cross along the five-yard line, but no one can get past the end.

27 mins: Gala has a corner on the right that leads into a second corner. Sara swings the ball in, but Porro deflects it at the front post.

25 minutes: Sara overcomes the press and pushes the ball to Osimhen, who holds the pass in the penalty area, but Forster is equal and parries to the edge of the penalty area, where Mertens is lurking. The Belgian cannot control his shot and goes wide of the goal.

23 mins: Emails from Bogdan Kotarlic: “For me, the loudest atmosphere at a football match was in November 1988, at the Champions Cup match between Red Star Belgrade and AC Milan. There were about 90,000 fans there and everyone was screaming and shouting and waving their scarves. It was really crazy, I couldn't hear my best friend who was standing next to me in the stands. Later in the game, with Red Star leading 1-0 and down a man due to the red card for AC Milan's Virdis, the game was abandoned due to heavy fog. Crazy atmosphere, I constantly had goosebumps and when the fog came in the middle of the second half we didn't know what was going on. The crowd was still loud and the fog was very thick, so we didn't know what was happening down on the field. Those were the days, real fans, real football, some great players and lots of memories.”