mustafa double downs sparta published: thursday 14 november 2002, 21.00cet
denizlispor 2-1 ac sparta praha (agg: 2-1) two goals from mustafa özkan seal win.
mustafa özkan scored twice to give denizlispor a 2-0 victory over ac sparta praha and send the turkish side through to the third round of the uefa cup as 2-1 winners on aggregate.
bright start
sparta were defending a 1-0 lead from the first leg a fortnight ago but looked in for a long night as denizlispor attacked them right from the start. the home team began brightly and had sparta on the defensive although the czech side did have their moments and went close to scoring on ten minutes.
ozkan opener
however, denizlispor took the lead in the 23rd minute when mustafa met péter kabát's cross to score past goalkeeper jaromir blazek from a tight angle.
kahraman chance
denizlispor almost built on their lead five minutes later when kabat's 25-metre free-kick hit the post. just before half-time ilyas kahraman escaped the sparta defence but, from just inside the area, he lobbed the ball wide of the goal.
penalty decider
sparta were once again put on the defensive early in the second half and went further behind in the 53rd minute. blazek brought down denizlispor's henrich bencik in the area and mustafa converted the resultant penalty.
sparta press
sparta pressed for the all-important away goal and went close on a number of occasions, but the home defence held firm to record a memorable victory.
yardımcı hakemler: harald sather (ger), carsten kadach (ger)
4. hakem: uwe kemmling (ger)
denizlispor: dirk heinen, janne hietanen, hakan cimen, ilyas kahraman (dk. 75 serdal boyraz), roman kratochvíl, mustafa özkan, henrich bencik (dk. 84 ersen martin), ali tandoğan (c), péter kabát (dk. 90 özgür bayer), bulent ertugrul, servet çetin
yedekler: süleyman kücük, levent kartop, bülent üçüncü, mustafa keçeli
teknik direktör: riza çalimbay (tur)
sparta praha: jaromír blažek, zdeněk grygera, pavel mareš (dk. 81 tomáš Čížek), karel poborský, jiří novotný (c), rastislav michalík, michal pospíšil (dk. 63 lukáš zelenka), tomáš hübschman, martin petráš, jiří jarošík, miroslav baranek (dk. 46 marek kincl)
yedekler: michal špit, jan flachbart, josef obajdin, tomáš sivok
teknik direktör: jozef jarabinský (cze)
goller: (1-0) mustafa özkan dk. 24 (2-0) [penaltıdan] mustafa özkan dk. 54
sari kartlar: dk. 58 hakan cimen, dk. 88 péter kabát (denizlispor) dk. 53 jaromír blažek, dk. 88 jiří novotný (c), dk. 90 tomáš hübschman (sparta praha)
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