Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
Gencler dug deep
last night to win 3 valuable points and put a dent in Bodrum’s promotion
hopes. However, Gencler still have
some work to do before they can breathe freely. They are still in the relegation mix with
probably 4 other teams and only 3 matches left to escape the dreaded drop.
They were
perhaps fortunate last night to play an ‘out of sorts’ Bodrum team who looked
far from a team challenging for a play-off spot to join the Super League. Bodrum was slow and ponderous and devoid of
ideas in the final 3rd until they finally woke-up towards the end of
the match, but they couldn’t find the equaliser
Anyway, Gencler
was well worthy of their 3 points, especially having to play the last half hour
of the match with only 10 men !!
GENCLERBIRLIGI 2
Bodrumspor 1
Team – Philipp,
Ugur, Alperen, Thomas, Yasin, Enes, Mete Kaan, Sekou, Bugra, Muhammed and
Souleymane
Substitutes – Atalay,
Erkan, Abdullah, Ilker and Akabueze
The 1st
half was a bit of a bore with the only real danger arriving in the 7th
minute when Enes sent in a goal bound shot from outside the box on the
left. The ball was heading for the top
left, but the goalkeeper made a spectacular save to palm the ball away for a
corner.
Bodrum was
making pretty patterns with their football but the final pass was wayward and
intercepted for the most part.
Gencler was
tackling and chasing every ball and hustling Bodrum to lose possession.
The half time
whistle was welcomed, but the 2nd half was a different story !
Only 5 minutes
had elapsed when the impressive Mete Kaan orchestrated the move down the right
wing . He drove into the box and his
fierce shot was parried by the goalkeeper, but Muhammed was first to react to
the rebound and slotted the ball in for the opening goal.
8 minutes later
and Bodrum found the equaliser when Alperen handled the ball while in the
process of making a tackle in the box.
The referee consulted VAR and gave a penalty which was despatched by
Hakan inside the left post with Philipp diving the opposite way.
Then 3 minutes
later Philipp had a rush of blood to the head when he ran out of his area to
clear a ball from a fast Bodrum breakaway, but used his hand in the
process. A straight RED card was shown
and Atalay came on with Sekou being hooked.
Gencler found
the winning goal on the 66th minute mark and it was Mete Kaan again
who was the provider. He made a
fantastic run from inside his own half all the way down the right wing avoiding
3 attempted tackles in the process, and passed inside the box to Souleymane who
gave the goalkeeper no chance with his well directed shot.
Bodrum made a
last ditch effort in the last 10 minutes to find another equaliser, but to be
honest they never looked like scoring in open play with the Gencler defence
looking solid.
One last piece
of action in time added on was the RED card to Erdem of Bodrum for his gung-ho
tackling which earned him two yellow cards.
Next up for
Gencler is an away match to one of the possible relegation candidates, Erzurum,
next Sunday 7 May, and it goes without saying that this will be one of those
MUST WIN matches for both teams.
As always, watch
this space for the outcome.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
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