her şey bir yana, maç öncesinde geçen yıl sivasspor'u yöneten lorant'ın sivas'ta ortamı germek için yaptıklarını düşündüğümde bu maçın "gerçekten" çok zor geçeceğini tahmin ediyordum. fakat ilk 5 dakikada bulunan 2 gol her şeyi değiştirdi. gerçi lorant yine elinden gelen her şeyi yapmış ortamı germek için...
maçın özetlerini izlediğimde gözüme ilk çarpan iki golümüzün de gerçekten çok güzel olduğuydu. ilk golün hazırlanışı ve ikinci golde okan'ın çok iyi takipciliği ve çok güzel vuruşu. ikisi de çok güzeldi.
mecburi orta saha değişimi gerçekten takıma yarar sağlamış. özellikle engin, bundan önce oynadığı bütün maçlarda takımımıza çok faydalı olmuştu. bu maçta da aynısı olmuş. umarım bundan sonra forma bulmaya devam eder. çünkü özellikle sıkıntı çektiğimiz oyun kurma konusunda yardımcı olacaktır.
bu maç güzel bir moral oldu. kalan 4 maçta da aynı tempoyla devam etmeli ve üst tarafla çok yakın olan puan durumunu da düşünerek -ki lig 5incisiyle aramızda sadece 4 puan var- ligi iyi bir yerde tamamlamalıyız. önümüzdeki konyaspor maçımız çok önemli. bu maçta da iyi bir oyun ve skor elde edersek bence takımın güveni iyice yerine gelir. umarım bu 4 maçlık periyotta mesut bakkal'ın takıma gelişinden bugüne, 3 maçı üst üste kazanamama şansızlığımızı da kırarız.
son olarak, ayak sakatlığından yeni kurtulan tuna'nın burnunun kırılmasına çok üzüldüm. umarım bir an önce iyileşip takıma döner.
up at the crack of dawn this morning in order to get to the chopin at the extremely uncivilised time of 11 am to find trainspotting kanka drinking his coffee and chatting away to carl and rana, a producer and researcher for a uk television company.
they were in town to do some background work for a show they are putting together all about turkish football fans. it appears that their main interest is in the more violent side of football fans.
poor guys, sure, turkish football supporters have got a terrible reputation, thanks in large part to the english tabloids, but i've hardly seen a violent incident in years of going to gencler and ankaragucu games. in other words i reckon they will have a difficult time making their documentary.
anyway, speaking of peaceful people maniac kanka harun joined us, as did dirk, lulu and lulu's boyfriend. lulu has only been in ankara for a month or so and while she was unable to come along to the match itself i'm sure she will joing us soon.
two other long lost souls from the wilds of bilkent also showed up, battle-hardened kanka damon and mountaineering kanka robbie.
all up a decent turn-out, sir eski kanka was sufferring at work, poor bugger.
off to the stadium nice and early and the crowd was quite a decent one. bugger all rizespor supporters of course but maraton was pretty much full, both sides of kapali were pretty much full and the gecekondu crowd wasn't too bad either.
and were they up for it? you bet. five wins on the trot for ankaragucu had the fans in full voice. the atmosphere today was brilliant. shame no one told the players.
let's just say that despite rize not being very good and ankaragucu dominating it wasn't until the 24th minute before ankaragucu had a shot on goal.
oh i did forget that a few minutes before that rize almost scored from a free kick which went onto ankaragucu's forward mustafa ozkan who was denied an own goal by the post.
another close shave came when the gucu defence allowed a bald bloke from rize a free header. nonsense stuff.
0-0 half time and tensions were rising. including on the terraces where for some reason a group of the anti-x supporters started shouting stuff at a group of genc ankaragucu supporters. no idea what started off the handbags but the cops were having none of it. fully tooled riot police were ordered in and although nothing happened, the atmosphere was definately tense. perhaps that tv company are onto something.
second half and both sides had chances. the difference was that ankaragucu, and tita in particular, seemed more intent on fancy passes around the box instead of actually having a shot.
again the bald bloke from rize was left unmarked twice were he could have scored with that shiny pate and then he really stuffed up when he was one-on-one with serkan (who actually had a very good game).
and so it was against the run of play when bebbe scored for ankaragucu with a header off a corner.
a few minutes later and ankaragucu sealed it after a lovely move down the wing which led to ceyhun sending the ball to bebbe who whacked it into the back of the net.
us happy campers then went off to the cappadocia bar to warm up.
it was here that we learnt of the other great result today. erciyesspor 0, genclerbirligi 2.
it was an away match and thus i have to rely on the anatolian news agency who report that neither goal was scored by isaac promise. in fact, isaac was replaced in the 74th minute and in their star report anatolia gave isaac one star out of a possible three (being chosen in the first 11 is enough to earn that one star).
but perhaps i'm being too tough on the young bloke because i doubt there was much need for attack considering that engin baytar and okan ozturk had both scored within 5 minutes of the match starting.
all up a great weekend which pulls both gencler and ankaragucu further away from the drop zone and closer towards a uefa place. let's keep dreaming.
yardımcı hakemler: muhittin gürses, faruk utku yılmaz
4. hakem: fethi serkan koçak
gözlemci: ünsal çimen
temsilci: hasan özbulut, engin yalçın
kayseri erciyesspor: khaled fadhel, ömer ateş (dk. 70 mehmet eren boyraz), emre toraman, radomir dalovic, timuçin bayazit, mustafa sarp [sakatlandı] (dk. 40 mhinseia serge arist die), mehmet fatih karaca (dk. 20 zafer demiray), cenk işler, özgür bayer, cem karğın, ilhan özbay
