"there is nothing better than to play like shit and still get the three points," orcan told me over a beer after last night's match. pretty much sums it up really.
genclerbirligi 1 - 0 bucaspor
just me at the beer bus sunday afternoon. no worries though as i had my newspaper, kofte and refreshments. in the end i had to pull myself away from the warmth of the bar and into the cold. there was still some snow on the ground at the 19 mayis but it wasn't deadly cold. pretty good weather for footy really.
as for the football itself. urgh. i truly wonder why i support gencler sometimes. two matches in a row now, against the same opposition, where we dominate the first half and have nothing to show for it. harbuzi in particular couldn't do a single thing right. his passing was atrocious and it was no surprise when he was subbed off in the second half. the surprise was that it wasn't earlier.
a few good shots from us but it was still 0 - 0 at half-time and that was thanks to some good saves by serdar. second half and after a couple of changes we started to put stuff together. the winner came in the 64th when mununga sent in a ball from the sidelines that their keeper seemed to have well covered. he dropped it though and oktay found himself with the ball at his feet and about a metre in front of the open goal. cue celebrations.
we had a few more chances, one off the post by murat but the best being when yasin was put through just inside their half with only the goalkeeper in front of him. unluckily he managed to toe poke it just a touch too much and the keeper got to the ball without a shot having been made.
and then everything fell apart. buca should probably have scored three or four in the last 20 minutes. i'm not sure what the hell happened but we fell apart and only thanks to some desperate last tackles, shots smacked into our players, some good keeping and also some crap shots. all the cards fell the right way though and they couldn't score but bloody hell th's was horrible stuff for us to watch.
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