Have Goals Dried Up at Galata?

Burak Yilmaz forgot how to take free kicks, and Didier Drogba missed a sitter, while heading a good ball with the goal 5-6 meters away, in injury time.
All in Galatasaray's home match against Antalyaspor, on the fourth matchday of the Turkish league.

Drogba did score a goal, 55 play-time minutes after the Antalya team had opened the scoring, but that was all, and Galatasaray got their third draw in a row.

Now, what seemed like a careless start is turning into a serious concern.

Cimbom has already dropped six points (and therefore sits six points behind perfect rivals Besiktas). And they're behind Fenerbahce, too, with the Fener team having played one less match, too.

Maybe they're just thinking about the Champions League opener against Real Madrid. And, after that, Besiktas. Away.

Not to mention that the coach, Fatih Terim, is also under pressure to try and put to good use Turkey's 2014-World-Cup-qualification play-off hopes, approximately one month from now.

...Or maybe the goals have dried up. Didier Drogba is kind of old now, and Burak Yilmaz and Umut Bulut do not seem nearly as prolific as last year.
But we'll see soon.

Highlights:

More Dropped Points for Galata

Galatasaray screwed up again. On home turf.

Only a 1-1 draw against lowly Gaziantepsor (- a team with six defeats in the league thus far -) means that surprise team Antalyaspor could match Cim Bom Bom at the top of the standings, points-wise, again if they win at home against Mersin Idmanyurdu, on Sunday.

Galatasaray have already drawn two of their home matches, in addition to losing one. (Out of seven played on their own field, in Istanbul.)
That's not great form.
And yet they still have a good chance of progressing from their Champions League group, this coming Wednesday. (But not with the same kind of form as the one exhibited today.)

Ibricic scored first, with 21 minutes remaining in regulation, to give the guests the lead at the Turk Telecom Arena. But, luckily for Galata, their top goalscorer Burak Yilmaz was on target once again, only 10 minutes later, to save them from an even bigger embarrassment.

See highlights here.

So Much Hard Work to Be Wasted

Galatasaray fans must be furious.
Their team proved today why concentration in every game is so important. By not being able to win against Antalyaspor, at home.
Twenty-two matches to build up some breathing space at the top of the standings, and two to blow it all!

So, from being 5 points up on Fenerbahce, they could now be level with their rivals tomorrow. (Fenerbahce plays at Samsunspor then.)

This is just pathetic from Fatih Terim & co.

And they needed a Felipe-Melo penalty to tie the game, too. Final score: 1-1.

You would expect this kind of lack of professionalism from a weak, unproven title contender, like Manchester City, Udinese, Montpellier, Alkmaar, and so on. But not from a perennial football giant like Galatasaray.
Shame!

#		Team	MP	W	D	L	F	A	D	P
1		Galatasaray	24	15	6	3	45	17	+28	51p
2		Fenerbahçe	23	14	6	3	38	21	+17	48p
3		Beşiktaş	23	13	6	4	35	22	+13	45p
4		Trabzonspor	24	12	6	6	43	26	+17	42p
5		Gençlerbirliği	24	11	7	6	35	28	+7	40p