According to Mehr reporter, Galatasaray and Manchester United football teams will face each other in the fifth week of the European Champions League on Wednesday evening at Galatasaray’s home stadium, so that both teams will fight for survival in the European Champions League.
30 years have passed since the adventurous trip of Manchester United to Turkey and the elimination of this team from the European Champions League. The night that Galatasaray created a stadium-sized hell for the Red Devils and ultimately led to the elimination of Sir Alex Ferguson’s men from the Champions League.
In that year, Manchester United was held to a 3-3 draw in the first leg at Old Trafford and needed a win at Galatasaray to advance to the next stage, but the atmosphere in the stadium in the second leg was such that it affected the Manchesters. and they could not get their desired result and this match ended with a goalless draw. In this game, Galatasaray players’ extreme time wasting angered Eric Cantona and caused him to get angry with the referee so that the legend of United was expelled from the field.
After the match, a riot broke out in the stadium tunnel, causing Manchester players to clash with riot police. These clashes and disbelieving elimination from the tournament put them in shock in such a way that they were not able to deal with the created atmosphere.
Manchester will have to travel to Turkey again on Wednesday evening and fight for life and death. They are at the bottom of the table with three points in their group and have lost the first leg against Galatasaray, and in order to survive, they must finish this match in their favor and on the other hand hope that Bayern Munich can win against Copenhagen. In this group, Bayern Munich is the leader with 12 points, Copenhagen with 4 and Galatasaray with 3 points are second and third.
But on the opposite side, Galatasaray is in a similar situation. They have to face Bayern Munich in the last match and they know that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get a result in that match, and meeting Manchester at home is the best opportunity for them to increase their chances of advancing to the next stage. Galatasaray fans, knowing this and remembering the meeting between these two teams 30 years ago, want to plunge Manchester into hell again to build their paradise.
In 1993, when Manchester United arrived at the airport in Istanbul, they were greeted by a huge crowd of Galatasaray fans, but they were there not with the intention of hospitality, but they were there to strike fear into the hearts of the Red Devils with a lot of noise, and they showed them banners with the following words: “welcome to the hell”. The hell that was created in the end and led to the elimination of Ferguson’s students, and it has to be seen whether such a hell will be created again in the Wednesday night game of these two teams or if other events will happen.