A NIGHTMARE PICTURE IN GALATASARAY: A 60-YEAR RECORD

Galatasaray, which entered the two thousand twenty-six and two thousand twenty-seven season in the Trendyol Super League with the password of championship, drew all attention with the incredible weaknesses it experienced in the defensive line. The yellow-red team saw exactly ten goals in its net in the first six-week period of the league and experienced a historical frustration. This great collapse in the defensive structure of the team reflected on the statistic sheets in a very bitter way. Cimbom, which signed one of the worst defensive performances in its history, revealed the darkest picture of the last sixty years with this bad statistic. When the depths of the club's history were examined, Galatasaray, which saw ten goals in its net as of the first six weeks, officially signed the second worst season start by far in this field. The only period when the yellow-reds exhibited such a bad defensive performance was the nineteen sixty-six and nineteen sixty-seven season when they saw eleven goals in their nets. Okan Buruk's students clearly left behind many bad seasons in the recent history of the club with these ten goals they conceded. Galatasaray previously saw nine goals each in its net in the first six-week parts of the nineteen seventy-nine to eighty, nineteen eighty to eighty-one, two thousand eighteen to nineteen, and two thousand twenty-one to twenty-two seasons. The team, which experienced serious harmony problems in the defensive line and gave the opponents very easy goal chances with simple individual mistakes, also drove the technical committee into deep thought. Sports authorities clearly stated that this great problem in defense despite the team's potential in attack would open very serious wounds in the championship race. Fans, who experienced a great disappointment, voiced their criticisms loudly towards both the defenders and the technical team. How Galatasaray would recover this historically bad record became the biggest subject of curiosity in the football public.

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