after all the fun i had last week writing about the legal handbags hapening at ankaragucu it is with deep hopelessness that i report (rather late i know) on genclerbirligi's stunning collapse early saturday evening.
flying dutchman kanka joined little oz kanka and myself at the beer bus and little oz kanka and all was good with the world. it was a little chilly but the snow had all melted away and as flying dutchman said, perfect football conditions.
genclerbirligi 1 - 5 bursaspor
bursa came out with the plan to deny us any time on the ball and it worked to an extent but at the same time for the first 20 minutes or so we were playing to plan. what wasn't to plan was some slack defending that allowed bursa to score in the 16th minute.
annoying but it wasn't long later that soner took the ball from a long pass and found himself one-on-one with the keeper. usually these end up being smothered out, when i see usually i mean "genclerbirligi usually", but instead soner placed it nicely and all was square.
then bursa scored four goals. end of report.
so that's the end of the first half with gencler down near the bottom of the table. there is a bright side though as a number of our players, including zec, jedinak and stewart should be back from injury by the time the second half gets under way in about a month's time. by that time we will probably have a new coach, with the rumour mill saying it will be mesut bakkal, or maybe giray bulak or someone else.
first though we have the turkish cup this wednesday night at 7pm. genclerbirligi are home and season tickets are valid for the match. for you ankaragucu lot it is 10 tl for maraton seats.
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