Roberto Mancini guided Galatasaray to a 2-2 draw at Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, just two days after taking over as coach at the Turkish club.
Substitute Fabio Quagliarella thought he had won it for Juventus with an 87th-minute header but Umut Bulut immediately equalised.
A blunder from Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci had gifted Didier Drogba the opener for Galatasaray in the 36th minute before Arturo Vidal leveled from the penalty spot after Quagliarella was adjudged to have been fouled by Nordin Amrabat.
“I’m disappointed,” Juventus coach Antonio Conte said. “But the most bitterness and regret comes from the second goal, because giving away a goal straight from the restart after we scored in the 87th is something quite unusual and strange. We drew a game which we really deserved to win.”
Conte described it as an “awful result.”
“We need to really, really fight. It will be a lot harder than last year, a lot, lot harder,” he said. “A hard path became so much harder because of two defensive mistakes. We shouldn’t despair, we have four games left, we have to grit our teeth. If we’re good we’ll get through.”