GENCLERBIRLIGI UNDONE IN THE ‘MINI’ ANKARA DERBY !!

 

 

Greetings Kankas and Kankies.

 

I was only able to watch the first 30 minutes of the match yesterday, but even with only 4 matches left to play,  it looks likely that Gencler has blown their chance of making the play-offs.

 

They have a ‘home banker’ against already relegated Giresun, but their other 3 matches look very tough indeed, especially away to almost automatically promoted Goztepe.

 

Of course, as I have said many times here, there are no ‘easy’ matches in this league, so there is still all to play for, but ...........time is not on Gencler’s side   !!

 

Keciorengucu          2                   GENCLERBIRLIGI            1

 

Team – Ertugrul, Yasin, Babacan, Yigit, Nzaba, Akabueze, Oguzhan, Ensar, Amilton, M. Yatabare and Melih

 

Substitutes – James, Jimmy Durmaz, M. Cagiran, Ozgur and Oltan

 

Kecioren opened the scoring after 25 minutes when they were awarded a penalty after a VAR  check.     Yasin tripped a Kecioren attacker in the box and the referee had waved play on.   However, he was directed to the VAR and the penalty was quite rightly awarded.    Bitin stepped up and sent Ertugrul the wrong way.

 

Gencler equalised in time-added-on in the 1^st half through Amilton, but Kecioren struck the winning goal halfway through the 2^nd half with a goal by Cinan.

 

Traore of Kecioren received a RED card near the end which obviously didn’t affect the outcome.

 

Next up is a home match on 21 April against mid-table Erzurum and another difficult encounter likely.

 

As always, watch this space for the outcome.

 

All the best from Eski Kanka Jim