(Video) Sunderland loanee Jeremain Lens helps Turkish football giants pull off Barcelona style comeback
Turkish football giants Fenerbahce managed to fight back from a two goal deficit to beat Alanyaspor 3-2 away from home in a comeback that was almost Barcelona-esque.
Barcelona made history becoming the first side in Champions League history to come back from a 4-0 first-leg defeat against PSG to win the tie 6-5 on aggregate at the Camp Nou.
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The Yellow Canaries comeback may have been slightly less incredible than that of Barca but it was impressive nevertheless.
Junior Fernandes opened the scoring for Alanyaspor inside the first two minutes and then Brazilian striker Vagner Love rewound the years and doubled his sides lead on 15 minutes.
Just when Fenerbahce looked down an out, Chelsea loanee Kenneth Omeruo scored an unlucky own goal.
On-loan Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo just scored an own goal for Alanyaspor against Fenerbahçe pic.twitter.com/cUnvzogo14
— Turkish Football (@Turkish_Futbol1) March 10, 2017
Then it was turn of Sunderland loanee Jeremain Lens to setup Fernandao with the equaliser before half-time.
Fenerbahçe’nin ofsayt gerekçesiyle sayılmayan gol pozisyonu. pic.twitter.com/Moftd4UhsS
— TurkSpor TV (@TurkSporTV) March 10, 2017
There were shouts of offside but the goal stood and Lens extended his assist tally to 13. The Dutch star has now been directly involved in six goals in his last nine away games – two goals and four assists.
Aatif Chahechouhe scored the winning goal in the second half in what was the first time Fenerbahce have comeback from 0-2 to win a game since 2005 against Konyaspor.
The win keeps Fenerbahce in 4th place and has reduced the gap with leaders Besiktas to nine points.
