VIDEO SHOWS: PHOTOS FROM GALATASARAY'S 1-0 HOME WIN OVER LIVERPOOL IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE / POST-MATCH COMMENTS FROM GALATASARAY COACH OKAN BURUK & LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. STILL PHOTO OF GALATASARAY’S VICTOR OSIMHEN SCORING A PENALTY DURING THEIR 1-0 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE WIN AT HOME TO LIVERPOOL (MUTE) 2. VARIOUS STILL PHOTOS OF OSIMHEN CELEBRATING (MUTE) 3. GALATASARAY COACH OKAN BURUK ARRIVING FOR POST-MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE & TAKING SEAT 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) GALATASARAY COACH, OKAN BURUK, SAYING: “Of course, I think we had a very important night. I think not just in terms of winning the match but in terms of the game, as a visual feast, our fans’ passion and desire that started before the match and continued until the end, defending with the team, attacking with the team. I would firstly like to thank our fans who created this atmosphere. Likewise, our players experienced this throughout the game. I also think we did a very good job tactically, because they are currently one of the most important teams in Europe. One of the teams that have one of the best squads (in Europe), and of course, they have a very good manager. From the beginning of the match to the end, they worked very hard to score and create chances. Of course, scoring early was an advantage for us. We actually created a couple of chances for a second goal. We also gave our opponents some chances, but I believe we deserved to win the match with the fight we put out in general throughout the match. It was a very important victory. I want to thank everyone, especially my players. It was a great atmosphere today. We had a bad experience in the first match of the Champions League. By beating Liverpool today, we actually earned here the three points we lost there (at Frankfurt). We have a long way to go. We'll continue, but it's been a morale boost for us, as well as for our national football. We've shown what a Turkish team can do. So, I'm really happy.” 5. BURUK LISTENING TO QUESTION 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER, ARNE SLOT, SAYING: “I haven’t seen it back, but there was no contact with the feet, and I don’t know if you’ve been to all of my press conferences, but the last few weeks, I’m talking quite a lot about that we are a very fair team, and I think maybe this was a situation where their player was really smart. He felt something, and made it feel as if it was an unbelievable hit, and the referee said ‘yeah, there’s contact’, and then the VAR cannot overturn it if there was contact. Although he did overturn the contact in the last minute when we got a penalty. This is something we have to accept.” 7. VARIOUS STILL PHOTOS OF LIVERPOOL GOALKEEPER ALISSON BECKER LEAVING THE FIELD AFTER PICKING UP AN INJURY 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER, ARNE SLOT, SAYING: “I nine out of 10 times fear the worst, and with the worst I mean that he cannot continue, and that’s what happened with Alisson. So, yeah, then normally he will not be able to play Saturday. That’s 99.9%. I’ve already said 100%, but lets make it 99.9, but I think it’s 100.” 9. STILL PHOTO OF LIVERPOOL’S HUGO EKITIKE ON THE PITCH INJURED 10. STILL PHOTO OF EKITIKE LEAVING THE PITCH AFTER PICKING UP AN INJURY 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER, ARNE SLOT, SAYING: “Yeah, Hugo felt something, and after the game, but yeah, that’s always the difficult thing with these moments, then players feel like, ‘it’s not too bad’, but yeah, when you just walk around it’s something different than when you make a sprint or when you have to shoot on target. So, he said he couldn’t continue, so, we had to take him off. Let’s see how he is for the weekend.” 12. SLOT LEAVING AT THE END OF HIS PRESS CONFERENCE STORY: Victor Osimhen scored an early penalty as Galatasaray beat an error-prone Liverpool, who lost goalkeeper Alisson and striker Hugo Ekitike to injury, 1-0 in a raucous Champions League clash in Istanbul on Tuesday (September 30). The masked Nigerian striker blasted the ball past a diving Alisson when he stepped up in the 16th minute after Baris Alper Yilmaz went down on being swiped in the face by Dominik Szoboszlai. Liverpool made three changes to the lineup that suffered a first league defeat of the season by Crystal Palace at the weekend, with Mohamed Salah on the bench along with record signing Alexander Isak. Both came on in the 62nd minute when Liverpool made a triple substitution, with Salah replacing starter Jeremie Frimpong on the right wing, after Alisson had gone off injured and was replaced by Giorgi Mamardashvili in the 56th. Ekitike, in the starting lineup on his return from a domestic suspension, went off injured in the 68th on a bruising night for the visitors who had their chances but looked alarmingly vulnerable in defence. (Production: Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Ali Kucukgocmen, Murad Sezer, Umit Bektas, Dilara Senkaya, Stefan Haskins)
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