bu maçta kapalı tribündeydim. denizli 2-0 öne geçtikten sonra isaac çok şahsi oynayıp çok top kaybetmeye başladı bir süre. bu sırada hem 2-0 yenik olmamızın verdiği sinirle hem de ısaac'in yaptığı top kayıplarına iyice kafayı takan bir taraftar, kapalı tribünün en arka sırasından avazı çıktığı kadar bağırarak yaklaşık 10 dakika boyunca ısaac'e saydırdı. tüm kapalı maçı bırakıp adamı seyretmeye, adamı dinlemeye başlamıştı. tam da bu sırada isaac bir gol attı. tribünde ben de dahil neredeyse herkes kahkahaya boğulmuştu ve gülmekten kırılıyordu resmen.
kötü gidişe dur diyeceğimiz umudu ile stada gelmiştim. kardeşimle birlikte maratonun en üstündeki düzlükte maçın tamamını ayakta izledim. yanlış anlaşılmasın yer olmadığı için değil. her zaman olduğu gibi, istemediğiniz kadar boş yer vardı. maçta bence yine bir issac klasiği yaşandı. issac bence hiçbir zaman kazanmak için tek umut olarak sahaya sürülmemeli. gol atarsa ne mutlu ama genelde atamıyor. 2, 3 sezondur boliç vakasını yaşıyoruz. 90 dakika tahammül edilecek bir oyuncu olmadığı kanaatindeyim. mağlubiyette en büyük neden olması ve diğer takım oyuncularınında ona ayak uydurmasıyla stat'dan çok sinirli ve boynu bükük olarak ayrıldım. oysa ben yeni bir sayfa açılacak umudu ile gelmiştim.
what a load of crap. i've been watching genclerbirligi for quite a few years now and quite frankly i'm not sure how i can continue.
we have decent players, we have 27 fans, today we had bright sunshine, but still we were served up absolute rubbish.
genclerbirligi 1 - 2 denizlispor
a shortage of genclerbirligi kankas today thanks to roger promising cornish pastries and free beer at the red lion club for those who wanted to join him for the norwich city - ipswich match meant that it was just myself, alpine kanka wolfgang and the two mini-alpine kankas down at the chopin bar.
i enjoyed my chicken kebab and beers and we left with plenty of time to get to the stadium only to find that cavcav had actually opened more gates than usual. we got into the stadium in about a minute, as opposed to about 45 minutes last time, and wished we had stayed at the chopin for another beer.
but onto the match. yawn.
turtles, snails, jim deciding whether to shout a round... all are a billion times faster than the way genclerbirligi played today. we had posession, we had the midfield, but if you are going to play so bloody slowly is it any wonder that the defence can get back!
let me state it quite clearly, denizli were crap. the fact that we didn't even get a shot on goal in the first half had bugger all to do with their defence but a damn lot to do with our attack.
us fans were singing away with 5,000 percent more energy than the gencler players were displaying. at half time i was hanging my head in shame.
second half and our new coach bulent korkmaz must have said ... "more of the same please" because we saw more bloody crap.
just re-read my account of the first half to get an idea.
then denizli got lucky with a penalty (accidental handball in the box). they converted. 0-1
okay, we are down. time to pick up the tempo perhaps. ah perhaps, but not before a basic mistake from isaac promise as he tried to head down a ball to one of our players but instead found one of theirs in our half, a couple of passes later and it was 0-2.
this was embarrassing and finally the gencler players knew it. ten minutes left in the match and we started playing. fast balls through to people in space... floated crosses to people like okan and kahe who knew what to do with them. we were creating chances and the denizli goalkeeper finally had to do some work.
we got one back when nick carle sent in a corner pretty much perfectly into the box where isaac promise was bloody lucky to be there.
quite frankly it was the only decent thing isaac did all match.
i lost count of the number of times isaac ... blindly passed to an empty space.
i lost count of the number of times he ... tried a smart back flick which went straight to the opposition.
i lost count of the number of times ... when we were on the attack with players ready to recieve the ball, isaac backtracked.
why on earth korkmaz kept him on for the full 90 minutes i have no idea.
having given isaac a lot of stick i'd like to point out that the way we are playing at the moment is not suited to his style. isaac is fast. he can get behind defenders, especially when we are on the counter attack. our style also doesn't seem to suit nick carle. we need carle to distribute balls through gaps to players running on to the ball, but we can't do that if it takes 15 minutes to get the ball from the keeper into the opposition's half.
dear god, is this punishment for me supporting south africa in the rugby world cup final? i swear i will never do it again. yours, oz kanka
gençlerbirliği: gökhan tokgöz, tolga doğantez, mehmet nas (dk. 56 burhan eşer), mehmet çakır, promise isaac, nicholas alberto carle, eren aydın (dk. 68 carlos eduardo de souza floresta), ayhan tuna üzümcü, engin baytar (dk. 46 okan öztürk), erhan güven, kerem şeras
yedekler: recep öztürk, marko zoric, ferhat kiraz, sedat yeşilkaya
teknik direktör: mehmet necip kulaksızoğlu
denizlispor: souleymanou hamidou, carlos alberto dos santos gomes (dk. 55 fatih egedik), allyson araujo santos, tomas abraham, yusuf şimşek, serhat gülpınar (dk. 73 fatih yiğen), murat karakoç (dk. 64 çağlar birinci), gökhan güleç, hasan yiğit, burak akyıldız, zafer demir
yedekler: bulut basmaz, caner celep, güray vural, engin memişler
teknik direktör: güvenç kurtar
goller: (0-1) dk. 55 [penaltıdan] yusuf şimşek (0-2) dk. 60 serhat gülpınar (ayakla) (1-2) dk. 80 promise isaac (kafa)
sarı kartlar: dk. 53 eren aydın (gençlerbirliği) dk. 30 murat karakoç, dk. 89 fatih yiğen (denizlispor)
