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Bar Denies Belal As Konya Slip to Early Goal

Date: 1-12-2005
Wrote: EP's reporter in Turkey Abdullah Apaydin

El Saka and Ahmed Belal'a Konyaspor played against Ayman Abdelaziz's former club Malatyaspor, who managed just their second win of the season. Konya are now not even in the top half of the table, laying in 10th.



Malatyaspor were bottom of the table before this match, despite their strong squad, and so, they had to beat Konyaspor in their land if they were to change their poor position. Malatyaspor have promising players such as Catatau, Homola and Johansson, but haven't been able to perform. A Scottish giant was after Catatau while he was still in Brazil but he prefered Malatyaspor for first team football. Meanwhile, Real Betis scouts came to Turkey for Malatyaspor's Johansson. We may see him in La Liga in the coming years.

Despite thier strong squad Malatyaspor players coulndn't adaptat, and so the club changed thier manager in the past weeks. It made a difference against Konya.

Konyaspor played well in the match but they weren't lucky. Malatyaspor found a goal in their first attack via Johansson. After the goal Konyaspor played more attackingly but Malatyaspor's deep defensive mentality didn't allow an equalising goal and so the match ended as it was after 4 minutes.

El Saka and Belal played during the match. El Saka played the full game but Bebbe replaced Belal after 78 minutes.

Belal played a good game, joining Hacioglu in many dangerous Konya attacks. On one occasion though, the Egyptian striker hit a good shot, but the crossbar didn't allow it to be a goal.

El Saka managed Konyaspor's defence well and could do nothing to stop Malatyaspor's goal. He also tried his chances on goal from free-kicks but he wasn't successful.


Ratings:

Malatyaspor: Fevzi xxx, Omer Erdoðan xxx, Homola xxx, Hakan xxx, Serkan Bensol xx, Bülent Akýn xx, Bilal xx (Min. 68 Mehmet x), Johansson xxx, Balash xxx, Taner xx (Min. 62 Ramazan x), Effa xx (Min. 54 Okan x)

Konyaspor: Ozden xx, El Saka xx, Umit xx, Erman xx (Min. 63 Volkan xx), Erhan xx, Belal xx (Min. 78 Gustan Anilet x), Ceyhun x (Min. 63 Tayfun xx), Mustafa x, Zafer xx, Yasin xx, Murat Hacioglu xx

Match Details:

Referees: Cüneyt Çakýr xx, Bülent Gokcü xx, Cemal Bingöl xx

Goal: Min. 4 Johansson (Malatyaspor)

Yellow Cards: Min. 62 Johansson, Min. 90 Balash, Min. 90 Serkan Bensol (Malatyaspor), Min. 35 Yasin, Min. 44 Erman (Konyaspor)

EGYPTIANS IN TURKEY:

After the weekend's games, the Egyptians are as follows:

4th) Besiktas 22 points (UEFA Cup place)
6th) Genclerbirligi 21 points
10th) Konyaspor 17 points
15th) Rizespor 13 points (One pos. above relegation zone)

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