it is only week three of the "your brand name" turkish super lig and i'm already feeling downcast. perhaps it is just that i'm forever a pessimist but, well, this weekend's results don't exactly inspire much hope.
first up, the better of the two results for sunday's evening matches.
bursaspor 0, genclerbirligi 0
according to the anatolia news agency report, in the first half gencler pretty much controlled the game and bursa had to rely on counterattacking moves. that, however makes it sound much more exciting than the minute-by-minute report with bursaspor seemingly having most of the chances but our keeper gokhan only having to make one save.
second half though and the man who never performs whenever i'm watching, yes, mr. isaac promise, uses his speed after getting the ball from a midfield position, gets it onto erhan who has a go, ball rebounds from the keeper, erhan has another go and this time the keeper stops it.
a couple of more attacks from bursa and then they hit the uprights, no goal.
gokhan makes a brilliant save in the 71st minute and then right before the death mehmet cakir has a go but their keeper saves again.
final result: a boring 0-0 draw
now onto the other ankara team and considering the result zagreb kanka must be happy that srebrenko posavec didn't play.
bursaspor: ömer çatkıç, ismail güldüren [sakatlandı] (dk. 46 egemen korkmaz), ömer erdoğan, can cumhur bozacı, veli acar (dk. 82 orhan alemdar), frasineanu cornel danut, sinan kaloğlu, zafer biryol, velice sumulikoski (dk. 79 ibrahim dağaşan), hasan yiğit, volkan kürşat bekiroğlu
yedekler: yavuz özkan, daniel gabriel pancu, yenal tuncer, burak akdiş
teknik direktör: ?
gençlerbirliği: gökhan tokgöz, lars fredrik risp, lamine traore, erkan özbey, mehmet nas, okan öztürk (dk. 66 mıckael joseph nıcoıse), mehmet çakır, ayman mohamed abdelaziz, promise isaac (dk. 89 hakan aslantaş), eren aydın, erhan güven (dk. 76 engin baytar)
