Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
Ankaragucu made
hard work of it today, but eventually they put the match to bed halfway through
the 2nd half and progress into the 4th Round.
Malatya Arguvan
of The 3rd Division didn’t disgrace themselves with their defence
kept busy for the most part and their goalkeeper in inspirational form
throughout, but he could not be faulted for both goals.
ANKARAGUCU 2 Malatya Arguvan 0
Team – Rafat,
Cem, Mert Cetin. Atakan, Andrej, Ali Kaan, Alper, Morutan, Renaldo, Federico
Macheda and Bajic
Substitutes –
Pedrinho, Tasos, Efkan, Bilazer and Astanakulov
It was mostly
all one way traffic in the match with only poor finishing and good goalkeeping
responsible for the match remaining scoreless at half time.
Bajic, Macheda
and Renaldo in particular all had golden opportunities to score, but Renaldo
should have opened the scoring just before halftime when put through one-on-one
with the goalkeeper, but his curled shot hit the bar and was then cleared.
Into the 2nd
half and Ankaragucu huffed and puffed to find the elusive break through until
it finally arrived after the introduction of Tasos who probably had his best
match for Ankaragucu.
In the 63rd
minute, Renaldo was sent clear down the left and he passed the ball further
down the wing to Tasos who, almost at the goal line, looked up, and sent an
inch perfect cut-back to Morutan in the centre for him to fire into the roof of
the net.
12 minutes later
and the goal of the match. It was
Tasos again the creator when he drove into the box on the left, played a
one-two with Renaldo and passed into the centre for Macheda to stroke the ball
in.
There was still
time for Tasos to score the 3rd, but it was correctly ruled out for
offside.
So, Ankaragucu
go into the hat for the 4th Round draw. In the meantime, it’s back to league
business on Sunday.
As always, watch
this space for the details.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
Thank you, Jim, for this report. The time of the match was absolutely terrible, it is almost impossible for someone working to go to the stadium. (Vitória Kanka)
ReplyDeleteAgreed Vitoria Kanka. As far back as I can remember, unlike most European countries, the Turkish Cup matches have always been played midweek in the afternoon. Even the Cup Final is played midweek !!! In Scotland, the League Cup Final is a prestiguous match played on a Sunday afternoon (usually in March) and the FA Cup Final is always the final match of the season on a Saturday afternoon. It is long overdue for Turkey to give a higher priority to the Turkish Cup competition !!!
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