The ball was in the game for only 50.5% of Galatasaray vs. Liverpool

Galatasaray wasted almost 30 minutes during the Liverpool visit in the Champions League, with the ball in the game for only 50.5 percent of the game.

There was no shortage of stop settlements during the defeat of Liverpool in Istanbul, where referee Clement Turpin blows his whistle for each dive and the hosts delayed the game.

Liverpool left little opportunity to build Momentum during their incoherent performance, with the ball only for the game 52 minutes and seven seconds of the total 103 minutes and three seconds (including added time).

According to Opta, via 365 scoresThe competition stopped 93 several times for target kicks, free kicks, throw-ins, corners and other stop settings, including injuries and substitutions.

Liverpool was registered to have wasted for 21 minutes and three seconds during the game, usually on free kicks (10.34 minutes) as players needed.

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Galatasaray in the meantime wasted in total for 29 minutes and eight seconds, with nine minutes and 35 seconds credited to the ‘other’ category in a nod to their time -wasteing antics.

Regarding the longest time that the ball was in play, that was recorded after two minutes and 49 seconds.

Moreover, of the 11 -combined minutes of added time, only played at the end of each half, which was in reality, only seven minutes and 16 seconds.

There was no specific breakdown over each half, but it certainly felt that the second half was a special stop-start when Galatasaray protected their lead.

Arne Slot said to reporters just as much after the game and said: “In the second half it became more difficult and harder for us to create.

“First of all, because they fought with everything they had, so you had to honor them and the second of everything because we hardly played in the second half.

“By ‘barely played’ I mean that the ball was hardly in the game.”

It is not the first time this season that the time that the ball was in play is limited for Liverpool, with their journey to Newcastle in August with only 40.8 percent, the lowest in the Premier League since 2010.