Dele Alli opened his Besiktas account in a 3-2 Super Lig win over Ankaragucu on Sunday, ending the previous Tottenham midfielder’s 13-month await a aggressive goal.
Alli left Spurs to signal a two-and-a-half-year cope with Everton in January, however he solely made one Premier League begin for the Toffees earlier than heading to Turkey on mortgage final month.
Having made his Besiktas bow in opposition to Sivasspor final week, Alli received on the scoresheet on his second look, firing Valerien Ismael’s males right into a 2-1 first-half lead.
The 26-year-old raced onto a knock-down from Burnley loanee Wout Weghorst to side-foot residence after 35 minutes, scoring his first league goal since he transformed a penalty in Tottenham’s 1-0 win at Wolves in August 2021.
Alli’s goal got here from his first try within the match, whereas Weghorst has now recorded a league-high 4 assists this season – every of them for a distinct participant (Alli, Jackson Muleka, Georges-Kevin Nkoudou and Rachid Ghezzal).
Alli scored 51 objectives in 181 Premier League appearances for Spurs, though over half of that tally (28) got here in his first two seasons (10 in 2015-16, 18 in 2016-17). His final open-play goal within the English prime flight got here in January 2020.
1 – @Besiktas midfielder Dele Alli scored his first Süper Lig goal together with his first shot in opposition to Ankaragücü. . pic.twitter.com/YD9rhAbwvz
— OptaCan (@OptaCan) September 4, 2022
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