Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
As the season
enters the final furlong with only 7 matches left to play, Gencler recorded
their 3rd back-to-back win of the season last night to keep their
play-off hopes on track.
Despite Kocaeli
having the lion’s share of play, Gencler has a striker. Melih Bostan, who has
gradually developed into a skilful predatory front-man over the past month or
so. In the event that Gencler don’t
make it back into the Super League, I have no doubt that he will be poached by
a Super League club next season.
This Gencler
team seem to be gelling together at the right time and they have a strong bench
to see them through the run-in.
GENCLERBIRLIGI 2 Kocaelispor 0
Team – Ertugrul,
Ozuzhan, Nzaba, Babacan, Yasin, Elias Durmaz, Amilton, Akabueze, James Siliki,
Ensar and Melih Bostan
Substitutes –
Yigit, Ozgur, Gaetan and Oltan
Gencler was back
in the Eryaman Stadium after playing a few recent matches at The Aktepe
Stadium, but I have to say that the surface still looks poor, especially around
the goalmouth area.
It was a fast
and furious 1st half with both teams intent on attack, but Gencler was
well worth their half time lead with 2 clinical finishes.
The first came
after only 4 minutes when a cross came into the 6 yard box from the right and
Melih ghosted in between 3 defenders to prod the ball in.
Kocaeli
threatened Ertugrul only once when a goal bound header in the centre was saved
at the left post.
The 2nd
goal arrived in time added on in the 1st half from a sweeping move
down the right. The ball was played
inside to James, but before he could take his shot, Melih nipped in ahead of
him to shoot inside the left post. A
true predator !!
Unsurprisingly,
the pace of the match noticeably slowed in the 2nd half with
Ertugrul coping easily with only 2 goal bound efforts from Kocaeli.
There is now a 2
weeks break in league action for International matches next weekend and the
General Election in Turkey the following weekend.
Gencler will be
in action again on Tuesday 2 April when they travel to play mid-table Bolu who
also have play-off aspirations !
As always, watch
this space for the outcome.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
Good to see Gencler at Eryaman again...
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