Trendyol Süper Lig’in 28. haftasında TÜMOSAN Konyaspor, sahasında konuk ettiği Beşiktaş’ı 1-0 mağlup etti.

Beşiktaş’ta uzun süredir sakatlığı bulunan savunma oyuncusu Gabriel Paulista, 19 maç sonra ilk 11’e adını yazdırdı. Beşiktaş Teknik Direktörü Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Konya Büyükşehir Stadı’nda oynanan karşılaşmaya Emirhan Topçu’nun yerine Paulista’yı ilk 11’de sahaya sürdü.

UEFA Avrupa Ligi’nin 5’inci haftasında 28 Kasım 2024’te Macaristan’da oynanan Maccabi Tel Aviv karşılaşmasında sakatlık yaşayan Brezilyalı futbolcu, o tarihten sonra 19 maçta formasından uzak kalmıştı.

Sahada 45 dakika kalan Gabriel Paulista, ikinci yarıda yerini Emirhan Topçu’ya bıraktı.

Karşılaşmanın ardından beIN Sports’a açıklamalarda bulunan Paulista “Öncelikle sakat olmadığımı, hocamızın kararıyla oyundan çıktığımı söyleyeyim. Futboldan anlamayan kişiler öyle şeyler söylüyor. Zor bir maç oldu. Daha çok karakter koymamız lazımdı. Planladıklarımızı yapamadık. Kötü bir gol yedik. İstediklerimizi hiç yapamadık” ifadelerini kullandı.

KANSAS CITY

The Kansas City Chiefs kept their bid for an historic third straight Super Bowl alive on Jan. 26, holding off the Buffalo Bills 32-29 in an AFC Championship thriller to set up an NFL title clash with the Philadelphia Eagles.

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The Eagles’ explosive ground game carried them to a 55-23 triumph over the Washington Commanders and into the NFL’s championship showpiece in New Orleans on Feb. 9.

In another tense duel between Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Bills counterpart Josh Allen, Mahomes ran for a 10-yard touchdown and completed the two-point conversion to put Kansas City up 29-22 early in the fourth quarter.

After Allen answered with a four-yard touchdown pass to Curtis Samuel to knot the score at 29-29, Harrison Butker booted a 35-yard field goal that capped the scoring, the Chiefs defense thwarting the Bills’ last bid.

“I’m just so proud of my teammates and how they responded,” said Mahomes, who ran for two touchdowns and threw for another. “That was a great football team and I’m just, I’m just lost of words.

“I’m just excited to get down to New Orleans, let’s go make history.”

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Kansas City have now ruined the Bills dreams in four of the last five post-seasons — twice in the conference championship. The Bills haven’t made it to the NFL’s championship showpiece since 1993.

Cheered on by Taylor Swift, the pop singer girlfriend of Chiefs tight-end Travis Kelce, the home side took the lead in the first quarter with a 12-yard rushing TD from Kareem Hunt.

The Bills responded with a 53-yard Tyler Bass field goal followed early in the second quarter with a six-yard rushing score from James Cook that put the Bills up 10-7.

But then the Chiefs turned on the style with Mahomes showing all his class to find Xavier Worthy with an 11-yard touchdown pass.

The quarterback’s one-yard touchdown run put the Chiefs 11 points up.

Allen answered with a touchdown pass to Mack Hollins and the Bills took a 22-21 lead on Cook’s one-yard scoring plunge.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said his team will have to set aside the hype surrounding their bid for an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl and focus on the Eagles.

“It still comes down to the game and the purity of the game and each play and how you handle it,” Reid said.

“And so you don’t get yourself too far out of that box. You just concentrate on the opponent and what you’ve got to get done against them.”

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In Philadelphia, quarterback Jalen Hurts and running back Saquon Barkley rushed for three touchdowns apiece, rookie running back Will Shipley ran for another and Hurts threw for one TD as the Eagles set a record for points scored in a conference championship game.

They’ll have a chance to avenge their 2023 Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs. Barkley, who came aboard as a free agent for just such an opportunity, set an early tone with a 60-yard touchdown run on the Eagles’ first play from scrimmage.

He added two four-yard scoring runs while Hurts twice plunged into the end zone from one yard out and also delivered a nine-yard TD run.

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Hurts also connected on 20 of 28 passes for 246 yards.

Washington’s Jayden Daniels, trying to become the first rookie quarterback to reach the Super Bowl, played with his trademark aplomb.

His 10-yard rushing touchdown followed by a two-point conversion had the Commanders within 11 points late in the third quarter.

Daniels threw for 255 yards with one touchdown. His one interception was one of four Commanders turnovers that ultimately proved too much to overcome.

GLASGOW

Jack Butland was the hero as Rangers held its nerve in a penalty shoot-out to dump Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahçe out of the Europa League and reach the quarterfinals on March 13 night.

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The Turkish visitors stunned Ibrox by fighting back from a 3-1 first-leg defeat in Istanbul to win 2-0 on the night and force penalties in the last 16 tie.

Butland saved two spot-kicks though as Mourinho, who was left fuming after an extra time penalty decision went against his side, narrowly failed to mastermind a comeback.

“We did everything to win. The ref and the VAR decided that we should go to penalties,” Mourinho told TNT Sports.

“In the first match I was honest and I had enough to say we made mistakes, we deserved to lose but in this match I also have to be honest and say we were the best team by far.”

Rangers, two-time runner-up in the competition, will face Athletic Bilbao in the last eight after winning 3-2 on penalties.

The Glasgow giant is bidding to salvage its season in Europe after a miserable Scottish Premiership campaign, with former midfielder Barry Ferguson now in interim charge following the sacking of Philippe Clement.

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“We fully believed we were going to get the job done. The boys dug deep and this is the reward you get, it’s what the fans deserve,” Butland said.

“We could have been more clinical but, boy, we deserved this.”

Rangers started well but could not increase their overall lead and fell behind on the night when Sebastian Szymanski brilliantly hooked a volley into the net on the stroke of half-time.

Szymanski leveled the contest on aggregate with 17 minutes remaining by poking the ball past Butland as the match headed into extra time.

Both teams went close to a winner as the game became increasingly stretched, with Fenerbahce goalkeeper Irfan Can Eğribayat making a fine save from a James Tavernier free kick.

Mourinho was booked for his protestations, animatedly making the VAR sign on the touchline, after Mert Hakan Yandaş was clipped by Nicolas Raskin in the area but no penalty was given.

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