Greetings Kankas
and Kankies.
With Gencler
seemingly dead-and-buried at 2-0 down
with only 15 minutes of the match remaining, they staged a remarkable recovery
to ‘steal’ a point having been on the receiving end for most of the match.
Kocaeli will
have learned a salutary lesson from this match when the players and the large
home support had assumed that the match was done and dusted !
It certainly
keeps Gencler’s revival firmly on track having avoided a defeat since they lost
to Bandirma last month. They now sit
in 4th position in the league and only 2 points below 2nd
placed Goztepe and Kocaeli.
Back to last
night, and apart from the Kocaeli goal to enliven proceedings, it was a scrappy
1st half.
Kocaeli 2 GENCLERBIRLIGI 2
Team – Orkun, M.
Cagiran, Babacan, Nzaba, Yasin, Rodrigues, S. Yatabare, Erturk, Enes, M.
Yatabare and Kayode
Substitutes –
Kemaloglu, R. B. Cagiran, Cek, Karakullukcu and Akabueze
The goal arrived
on the half hour mark from a corner on the left which was headed clear to the
unmarked Candeias on the right just inside the box. He first timed his shot inside the left
post for what was just reward on the balance of play.
The standard of
play in the 2nd half wasn’t much of an improvement until 15 minutes
to go when Ankaragucu ‘old boy’ Berizde received a pass on the left from the
halfway line. He cut inside the box
leaving a defender in his wake and sent a curling shot inside the right post.
That was it
then ! Game over !!
Kocaeli appeared to have the match sewn-up, having dominated for the
most part and restricting Gencler to only one shot on target.
Then, boom
......boom !!!
2 goals in the
last 5 minutes silenced the home support.
Firstly, a cross
from the right to the back post was met by Kayode sending a looping header over
the goalkeeper, positioned at the back post, and inside the top of the near
post.
Only 1 minute
later and the equaliser. From a corner
on the right R. B. Cagiran was first to the ball to send a bullet of a header
in.
An amazing end
to the match. The looks on the faces
of the Kocaeli players at the final whistle spoke volumes !!!
Shell shocked springs to mind !!
Next up for
Gencler is a home match against mid-table Bolu next Saturday 4 November.
As always, watch
this space for the outcome.
All the best
from Eski Kanka Jim
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