Egyptian star Mohamed Salah led the Trabzonspor team to achieve a crushing victory over its guest, Galatasaray, by three clean goals, on Saturday evening, in the top matches of the sixth round of the Turkish Football League, thus recording a historic “hat-trick”.
Salah opened the scoring early in the fourth minute following a counter-attack during which he launched the ball from his own half to go one-on-one with goalkeeper Organ Cakir and into the net. In the 39th minute, our colleague Noah Saviolo scored the second goal for Trabzon, before Salah returned to score his second and third personal goal for his team in the 44th minute. Ten minutes before the end of the match, the Egyptian star returned to conclude his hat-trick with a new solo performance, ending it with a brilliant shot to the right of the goalkeeper.
The final moments of the match saw Galatasaray player Leslie Ogochukwu sent off in the 87th minute, leaving his team to complete the match with ten players.
With this exceptional performance, Mohamed Salah raised his score to 7 goals alone as the top scorer in the Turkish league this season, one goal ahead of Nigerian Victor Osimhen, the Galatasaray striker.
This broad victory came in the first match for the new German coach of Trabzonspor, Thomas Reiss, raising the team’s score to 10 points in fifth place. On the other hand, Galatasaray’s balance froze at 13 points, temporarily maintaining its lead, one point ahead of its closest rival, Besiktas, which has the chance to seize the lead when it visits Umitspor on Sunday.
