a draw last night at home was enough for genclerbirligi to book themselves into the semi finals of the "better off putting it under the bed" turkish cup. having won 0-1 away in the first leg, a goal from traore in the 83rd minute to tie up the scores was enough for gencler.
i had to play darts last night so i had to rely on vedat the barman at the red lion to give me updates via livescore.com every time i ordered a beer ie. about every five minutes.
so all i know is the score and today was looking forward to reading the match report in hurriyet, my favourite turkish newspaper. so, let me translate the entire report.
"after winning 1-0, genclerbirligi in their return match came back from being behind twice to reach the semi-final of the "our queues are shorter because we charge you more" turkish cup."
yep. that's it. hurriyet had five pages of sport today and managed a single sentence for the only match that was played last night. well done hurriyet.
so all i know is that kahe and traore scored and we are through. fingers crossed genclerbirligi oftas wins today and that the two genclerbirligis meet in the final.
edit: oftas lost unfortunately. the other semi-finalists: galatasaray, kayseri and rize .
