Greetigs Kankas
and Kankies.
A golden
opportunity was missed by Ankaaragucu to leap further ahead of their rivals
last night when they lost 2 points, which hopefully will not come back to haunt
them at the end of the season.
The disappointment
was clearly etched on the faces of the players (and us kankas !!) at the final whistle, but to be honest,
and taking everything into account, it was probably a fair result with both
teams scorning chances to score.
It is not ‘doom
and gloom’ time yet, but Ankaragucu must keep picking up points to stay ahead
of the chasing pack and it certainly won’t be easy with 6 matches left to play
in the run-in.
However, back to
last night ............
ANKARAGUCU 0 Kasimpasa 0
Team – Gokhan,
Kevin, Atakan, Mujakic, Kitsiou, Diack, Matej, Taylan, Tasos, Zahid and Ali
Sowe
Substitutes –
Andrei, Emre, Oko and Pedrinho
Both teams were
set-up to attack and credit must be given to both teams for their attacking
intent throughout the match.
It took until
the 20th minute for the first serious attack when Ali and Zahid both
had shots saved one after the other after good work by Diack to set-up the
chance.
15 minutes later
and good work by Tasos to get himself into a shooting position at the edge of
the box, but his shot was well saved.
Approaching half
time and Kasimpasa had two good opportunities to open the scoring. Gokhan made a great save at the right post
from a goal bound shot after a fast break on the right. Then, almost on the half time whistle, a
Kasimpasa player missed an open goal by shooting wide from right to left.
The 2nd
half began in the same vein as the first with both teams going all out for the elusive
opening goal.
Ali had the best
chance when he was set free in the centre.
He was shepherded out to the right by defenders and his shot found the
side netting ........... on the wrong side
!
Then, into time
added on and after good work by Oko, he sent in an inviting cross to the centre
and two players had a ‘bite of the cherry’ but both efforts were poor and
cleared.
I must mention
the contribution of Mujakic last night who was my Man of the Match. I lost count of the times he made crucial
tackles and interventions.
Ankaragucu will
have to put in some serious work in the next month or so, and as I’ve said many
times here, there will be no easy matches.
For example, for their next league match, Anakaragucu will travel to
Trabzon next Monday 8 May, Last season’s
champions are not the force they were, stuck in the mid-table area at the
moment, but they will still be another difficult hurdle for Ankaragucu to
negotiate !
However, prior
to that important fixture, there is a Cup Semi Final 1st Leg to be played in Istanbul against Basaksehir on
Thursday 4 May. Of course, it is
every players dream to play in a Cup Final, but Ankaragucu’s full focus must be
on winning league points !!
As always, watch
this space for the outcome.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
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