Galatasaray rally from deficit to beat Lille 4-2

Galatasaray recovered from a 2-1 deficit to beat Lille 4-2 in the Champions League on Wednesday, earning their first victory of the campaign. Victor Osimhen scored the final goal, completing a comeback in a six-goal match in France. Yunus Akgün opened the scoring for Galatasaray in the second minute. Lille replied through Soriba Diaoune, who scored twice to put the hosts ahead 2-1. Accounts differ on whether Diaoune’s first goal came in the seventh or eighth minute; his second came in the 39th. Galatasaray equalized in the 44th minute when Aleksei Batrakov headed in Roland Sallai’s delivery. The teams went into halftime level at 2-2, and Galatasaray took the lead in the 52nd minute after a Lille player turned the ball into his own net. Reports identify different players as responsible for that own goal: Nabil Bentaleb in some accounts and Lille goalkeeper Berke Özer in another. The reports do not resolve who was officially credited, so the scorer could not be established from the match accounts. Osimhen made it 4-2 in the 61st minute. One match account described the goal as the finish to a counterattack set up by Baris Yilmaz. The goal capped Galatasaray’s recovery after Lille...