Turkey opened the Euro tonight (Tuesday) in the best way that the country could imagine. It was by far the best game we’ve had so far in the tournament, with spectacular goals, misses, a broken pace and a big 1-3 at the end for Vincenzo Montella’s team over Georgia, who came very close to picking up a point on their debut.
In Turkey they noted that Montella made two significant decisions in the selection of the team and they paid off hugely. The first is the placement of Mert Muldor as the right defender at the expense of Zaki Celik, who was not 100 percent fit. The Fenerbahçe player scored the first in a spectacular performance, when he unleashed a mighty volley from 16 meters for the connections.
The coach’s second decision was to place Arda Golar on the right, a position he is less used to and only recently got the opportunity there from Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid. The result? A spectacularly beautiful goal in the 65th minute, when the talent burst from the right after stealing the ball and turned with his left foot from 20 meters into the net.
“A golden boy, a perfect goal”, enthused ‘TRT Spor’. “We are so happy that you are ours.” In ‘Sporx’ they were delighted: “What did you do Arda, an extraordinary goal”. His Real teammates Thibaut Courtois and Lucas Vasquez were also enthusiastic, as were Mesut Özil and many in the world of football. Turkey came with many expectations and hopes and Golar fulfilled them.
At the age of 19 and 114 days, Golar became the youngest Turkish player to score for the national team at the Euros. He also overtook Cristiano Ronaldo, who in 2004 scored when he was 19 years and 128 days old. In addition, pay attention to the following statistic: in all seven games in which Goler started in the lineup this season for Real Madrid and the national team, he scored.
Golar said after the game: “Only a few of my dreams have come true, I have many more dreams to fulfill.” Muldor added: “We deserved to win, this was the most important game because we wanted to start well and now we will try to win the other two games as well. the gate? I had no other option, I had to kick.”
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