Galatasaray and Rennes played out a 3:3 draw in a Club Friendlies fixture on Saturday evening at the Turk Telekom Stadium. The match finished with both sides having scored three goals each, with the visitors taking a momentary lead before the hosts equalised in stoppage time.
Osimhen opened the scoring in the eighteenth minute, and here's the thing about these friendlies — the intensity starts before the whistle. Lepaul brought Rennes level just eleven minutes later, and by then you could sense neither side wanted to lose face. Gabriel Sara restored Galatasaray's advantage in the forty-ninth minute, but Rennes responded through Lepaul again in the fifty-eighth.
The penalty in the sixty-first minute changed everything. Lepaul converted his spot-kick to put Rennes ahead for the first time, and Galatasaray made four substitutions in quick succession without finding an answer. The visitors kept their heads through a period where the match could have been decided.
What followed was a game that ran out of legs but not ideas. Galatasaray dominated possession at 56 per cent and created more attacks, yet Rennes registered a higher expected goals total of 3.65 against the hosts' 2.58. The statistics tell you one thing; the result tells you another.
Yilmaz equalised from the spot in the ninety-fourth minute, and the match ended as it had been building — with both sides claiming they deserved more. Galatasaray's recent form showed three defeats in their last five friendlies, while Rennes had lost only once in that span, but neither record mattered on this evening.