GALATASARAY   V   CHELSEA

DATE

KICK OFF

7.45 pm

Wednesday 20th October 1999

Champions League Phase 1 Match 4

FIXTURE

AT

Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul

MAN OF THE MATCH

SCORE

ATTENDENCE

Gianfranco Zola

5-0

25,500

5/10

Vitor Manuel Melo Pereira (Portugal)

REFS PERFORMANCE

REFEREE

TEAMS

CHELSEA

Ed De Goey, Celestine Babayaro, Frank Leboeuf, Marcel Desaily, Didier Deschamps, Gustavo Poyet, Graeme Le Saux, Alber Ferrer,  Tore Andre Flo, Jody Morris, Gianfranco Zola

SUBSTITUTES

Wise 66 (Deschamps) Petrescu 66 (Poyet) Ambrosetti 75 (Zola)

BOOKED

Leboeuf

Flo 32, 49, Zola 54 Wise 79 Ambrosetti 87

SCORERS

GALATASARAY

Mehmet Bolukbasi, Gheorghe Popescu, Emre Belozoglu, Arif Erdem, Okan Buruk, Hakan Sukur, Gheorghe Hagi, Fatih Akyel, Tugay Kerimoglu, Hakan Unsal, Capone

Hasan 46 (Hagi) Umit 46 (Fatih) Saffet 65 (Sukur)

SUBSTITUTES

BOOKED

Sukur, Umit

MATCH REPORT

"From Hell To Heaven"

I just cant get over the scoreline, to go to the hell hole of Istanbul and not just get out alive but to absolutely masacre the Turks.

The Gala fans never let us down with the constant drumming and flares being fired off in every direction.

Gala started off the brighter team, but once Chelsea got into their stride there was only one team in it.

Chelsea's first effort on target  from Gus Poyet was a wonderful half volley that the   goalkeeper was at full stretch to save.

You sensed that Chelsea were stepping up a gear and that a goal was on the cards.

And on 32 mins Flo shocked the home fans with a truly wonderfull individual goal from a great ball from Zola, a goal never looked on, but somehow Flo skipped round the defender and fired a angled shot into the corner of the net.

At last the drums were silenced,  and very faintly you could hear the travelling Chelsea fans giving a truly memorable "One Man Went To Mow"

If you thought Flo's first goal was great, his 2nd goal in the 2nd half was even better, Poyet heading the ball back into the box from a deepish cross to find Flo, who managed to chest the ball down, pivot and fire the ball into the corner of the net, "a absolutely brilliant goal"

The plaudits must go to my man of the match, Zola who was simply inspirational and gave the Gala defenders a torrid time.

Just when you thought Chelsea would be happy with a
2 goal advantage, into the frame comes Zola with a brilliant piece of majic, a long ball launched into his path, beating the offside  trap and running onto it, drawing the goalkeeper off his line, then have the cheek to round him and fire the ball into a empty net, in my household watching the game on the box, we all went berserk, wonder what the neighbours will think of us.

A truly wonderfull sight was seeing the Turks leave the stadium in their hundreds and hearing the Chelsea fans taking the piss with "We Can See You Sneaking Out"

I for one thought that 3-0 would be the end of the saga, how wrong I was, more goals were to follow from the 2 players brought on as subs
interstingly one goal from Dennis Wise who was apparently rested for the game .

A well taken goal with a first time shot that he really could not miss on 79 minutes, and to round off a historical night, Ambrosetti finally getting on the scoresheet with a crossfield shot that the goalkeeeper had no chance of stopping on 87 minutes.

Was this all a dream , nobody would of gave you any odds for this result happening in the bookies, and the result as cleary sent shockwaves right through Europe.

"WATCH OUT EUROPE HERE WE COME"

We extinguised the inferno, went to hell and ended up in heaven.

Bye Bye Galatasaray


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