Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
This was more
like the Ankaragucu that we became familiar with a few months ago when Omer
Erdogan was the Coach.
Hopefully this
performance last night was not a one-off and can be reproduced and bettered in
the remaining league matches.
In the meantime,
we will savour a Cup run into the semi final for the first time in hundreds of
years ............. well, a long time anyway
!!!
ANKARAGUCU 3 Trabzonspor 1
Team – Bahadir,
Atakan, Mujakic, Radakovic, Keven, Zahid, Andrej, Matej, Taylan, Emre and Ali
Sowe
Substitutes –
Firatcan, Diack, Tasos, Arda and Gokhan
The match sprang
into life in the 22nd minute when Trabzon prised open the Ankaragucu
defence to score a well crafted goal and I have to confess that I wasn’t
hopeful of an equaliser at this stage of the match.
A long telling
pass was played from the half way line to
Abdulkadir, who had ghosted in behind 2 Ankaragucu defenders, and he had the easiest of chances to slot the ball in
with Bahadir exposed by slack defending.
Ankaragucu wasn’t
for throwing the towel in ! They had 2 good chances to find the
equaliser but were unlucky with both.
Firstly, from Zahid’s corner kick, Ali glanced his header just past the
post, and secondly, Emre had a goal bound shot well saved by the goalkeeper.
Trabzon went in
ahead at half time, but after they had gone behind, Ankaragucu had shown
fighting spirit and attacking intent which had been lacking in their recent
league matches.
That
perseverance paid off 6 minutes into the 2nd half when Ali did the
biz. A cross came in from the left to
Ali in the centre who’s header came back off the bar, but he was first to the
rebound and headed in for the equaliser.
Ankaragucu’s
tails were up now and they poured forward searching for the breakthrough to
take the lead.
It almost came
in the 62nd minute when Taylan’s goal bound shot, heading for inside
the left post, was well saved for a corner.
Another chance
arrived a minute later when the ball was played to Ali in the centre, but
surrounded by 3 defenders, he was unable to put his shot in on goal.
However, the
goal which their attacking play merited finally arrived 5 minutes later. The corner kick on the left was sent over
into the near post by Zahid and Diack rose above everyone else to send his
powerful header into the top left.
The 3rd
goal almost arrived 10 minutes later from a smart piece of football at a set
piece situation. Ankaragucu had a
free kick just outside the box on the right which was taken by Emre to Ali who
had peeled away on the right. He took
the ball to the goal line and cut it back for Diack, but his shot went whizzing
past the right post.
However, the 3rd
goal deservedly arrived 5 minutes later.
A long clearance was made inside the Ankaragucu half which was headed on
to Ali in the box. He swivelled to
wrong foot the defender and sent his shot from the left to inside the right
post to cap an excellent match, which I may add was an all round great team
performance.
So, into the hat
Ankaragucu goes for the Semi Final Draw which will obviously take place after
all the Quarter Final ties had been completed, ie ............
Galatasaray v
Istanbul Basak
Fenerbahce v
Kayseri
Probably Sivas
with Gaziantep unable to play at the moment
First up though
it is back to league business and the vital match against Istanbulspor at home
on Saturday which falls into the category of ............ MUST WIN. Another performance similar to last night’s
will do nicely !!!
As always, watch
this space for the outcome.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
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