Trabzonspor thrash Galatasaray 4:0 in Turkish Super Lig — Anadolu Agency
Trabzonspor defeated Istanbul's Galatasaray 4:0 in Turkey in the sixth round of the Turkish Super Lig. As Anadolu Agency reports, Mohamed Salah scored a hat-trick and provided an assist.
Goals before the break
Salah opened the scoring in the fourth minute. He collected the ball after a clearance, got behind Galatasaray's defenders and beat goalkeeper Ugurcan Cakir with a low shot. Five minutes later, his effort from the edge of the penalty area went just wide of the post.
In the 39th minute, Saviolo doubled Trabzonspor's lead: after Salah's pass, he fired low into the bottom corner from the right side of the penalty area. In the 44th minute, Ju won the ball from Davinson Sanchez and passed to Salah, who scored the hosts' third goal.
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Hat-trick and sending-off
After the break, Galatasaray tried to respond, but in the 72nd minute the team's head coach, Okan Buruk, was sent off for protesting a decision. In the 80th minute, Salah completed his hat-trick, breaking into the penalty area from the right and converting Ozan Tufan's pass.
In the 85th minute, Trabzonspor were reduced to 10 men. Ugochukwu's yellow card for a foul on Ozan Tufan was changed to a red card after a VAR review.
