Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
Headline by
Kaleci Kanka Tansu !
This will be a
short and ‘bitter’ report !
Ankaragucu can
have no complaints about yesterday’s scoreline in Kayseri. They were totally outplayed by an average
Goztepe team who were up for it.
Goztepe was always first to the ball, closing players down and looked
much fitter than Ankaragucu. That’s not
to say that Ankaragucu didn’t have chances to score, but for the most part they
were futile efforts. Battle Damaged
Kanka Damon, Kaleci Kanka Tansu and I watched the match in The Anasson Bar in
the company of some other frustrated Ankaragucu supporters !
ANKARAGUCU 0 Goztepe 3
Team – Korcan,
Mehmet, Alihan, Kone, Kenan, Sedat, Faty, Mokhtar, Ilhan, El-Kabir and Kubilay.
Substitutes used
– Putsila, Cerci and Kehinde
It was all
Goztepe for the first 10 minutes and they almost went in front in the 2nd
minute when Mokhtar’s back-pass was short and latched onto by a Goztepe
forward, but fortunately Korcan was alert to it and smothered the ball at his
feet.
Goztepe did score
in the 9th minute but it was rightly chalked off for offside.
Ankaragucu did
have 3 chances in the first half. Ilhan
received a pass from the left but shot tamely past the post. Kubilay was targeted by a cross from the
right but missed his header and Mokhtar struck a free kick just outside the
penalty box straight into the wall !
Goztepe started
the 2nd half as they did the 1st half. They were stroking the ball around and
giving Ankaragucu the run-around, and they almost opened the scoring 3 minutes
in. A sweeping passing move was halted
by Mehmet with a saving interception to frustrate Goztepe.
However, we only
had 2 minutes to wait for the inevitable goal and it was another sweeping move
with a perfect cross from the left and Jerome first timed it into the top left
with Korcan well beaten.
It was almost
two 6 minutes later when a Goztepe header hit the outside of the post and went
out.
Then in the 66th
minute the most amazing and unbelievable decision when El-Kabir (the only
player looking capable of scoring) was hooked and Cerci came on to replace
him. Actually, Cerci should have been
on from the start !!!
2 minutes later
and goal of the match when Goztepe brought the ball from their own box with
Ankaragucu back peddling and the classic cut back on the left and swept in by
Halil to put the match out of Ankaragucu’s reach.
10 minutes later
it was all over. Another break down the
left by Goztepe, the cross came over and Gouffran stepped between THREE
Ankaragucu defenders to slot in with ease.
There was one
chance near the end for Ankaragucu when Kenan did some great work down the
right to beat 3 Goztepe defenders. His
perfect cross was met by Kehinde near the penalty spot but his weak shot was
sent straight into the goalkeeper’s hands !
So, as Tansu
quite rightly said, Ankaragucu is in Freefall and have slipped to 12th
position in the league. However, if
Kayseri win in Erzurum today it will be 13th position !
So to the Winter
‘of Discontent’ Break ! This will
surely give new Coach, Harun Bektas, time to ponder the 2nd half of
the season and it doesn’t get any harder than an opening away match against
Galata....spit....saray on 20 January 2019 ! It should also be mentioned that Djedje
and El-Kabir will have left for pastures new, so who is going to lead the line
is anyone’s guess, and before you say it ............... I will ..............
NOT Ilhan Parlak pleeeeeeeeez !!!
A Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019 to all our readers !
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
Jim Thanks for your detailed report.
ReplyDeleteIn brief We have a new Ismail Kartal named Bayram Bektaş.
Similar mental capacity. God should give us extra patience and better understanding to get what he is trying to do ?? Volkan