Pound-For-Pound Most Exciting

This was, overall, the most exciting match of the Round-of-16 stage of the Champions League.

I'm talking about Schalke - Galatasaray 2-3.

Okay, so there weren't huge teams involved in this, but the game was one goal away from swinging the other way (or another way, meaning extra time, of course) for all but 21 minutes, roughly. Not even Man. United - Real or Barcelona - Milan had that. And there were 5 goals in this game. And teams were evenly matched. And all through to the end, we could never know for sure which team was going to progress, or even which team deserved more to qualify.

Schalke started as favourites to advance, and they had the better start, up to and including Neustadter's goal in the 17th minute.

But then the Germans seemingly thought they had the tie all wrapped up, and they became a little relaxed. While they were confident of their superiority, Altintop (min. 37) had an amazing shot that brought the teams level on all counts. No more away-goal advantage, too.
Regardless, Schalke players still believed in their own powers, and started to pour forward. But that was their downfall.
Yilmaz managed to score his eighth goal in this year's CL, thus reaching Ronaldo's tally, following a Turkish counter-attack.

Even though the Gelsenkirchen team pulled level in the 63rd minute, through Michel Bastos, they needed a third to progress, and they couldn't get it.
Galata got a third, however, deep in injury time, again thanks to Schalke throwing everybody forward. (Well, actually, and surprisingly, they didn't send the goalkeeper forward... But they still conceded.)
It was the 95th minute, when Fatih Terim's men could finally celebrate.

And here's how deep a squad Galatasaray has. Forget about having players like Wesley Sneijder and Didier Drogba, and Muslera, Eboue and Altintop, for a minute. There's more:
Their top goalscorer from the Turkish league, and in the Turkish league - until a few weeks ago, when he stopped scoring as much, and he was overtaken by Yilmaz (and a couple of others, from other teams) - Umut Bulut, didn't even play till the 86th minute. Less than 10 minutes later, he put the game beyond the hosts' reach.
Oh, and he probably stopped scoring as much in the Turkish league only because he was put on the substitutes bench.

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