Galatasaray Get Last Gasp Winner Against Belal

Galatasaray Get Last Gasp Winner Against Belal

Date: 24-1-2006
Wrote: EP's reporter in Turkey Abdullah Apaydin

This week Konyaspor played against Galatasaray in the Turkcell Super League. Ahmed Belal had returned to Turkey after being left out of the national team's final squad.

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Before the match all football fans spoke about a very hard match for Galatasaray, partly because Galatasaray sent some of their most useful players to Africa such as strong defender Rigobert Song and tireless defensive midfielder Saidou. Because of this reason Galatasaray's technical staff preferred to start young players such as Ugur Ucar(18-year-old right back) and Ferhat Oztorun (18-year-old left back) and Aydin Yilmaz (18-year-old central midfielder) replaced Hasan Sas in the 84th minute.

Galatasaray's youngsters showed their class in the match as Aydin Yilmaz found the net in what was a goal-less match up to the 92nd minute.

From the Konyaspor side there was hope. They wanted to use Galatasaray's economic and squad problems.

But because of El Saka's national team duty in Egypt, Konyaspor had to change their defensive line, so left back Omer Gundostu played in the centre of the defensive line.

Konyaspor started the match with two young strikers Bebbe(23-year-old Cameroonian) and Volkan Cekic(21-year-old. EP thinks that this was a very big mistake for Konyaspor in terms of mentality. Manager Aykut Kocaman was late to change his tactical decision. Ahmed Belal and Tayfun Turkmen came on. After the new strikers were on Konyaspor started very organized attacks. Tayfun's good heading was very good and advanced for clinical striker Ahmed Belal, but taking your chances and having luck is everything in football.

Konyaspor supporters didn't come to the stadium to support their team. There were just 13,000 fans in the stadium.

The match ended 0-1.

Match Highlights:

4.min: The first chance of the match came from Galatasaray. In that minute Hasan Sas shot very strongly when he entered the box, but Konyaspor goalkeeper Ozden sent the ball for a corner.

18.min: Konyaspor's Volkan crossed from the left flank towards the box. In the scramble Galatasaray's defenders couldn't touch the ball. Murat Hacioglu found the ball in a good position, but the ball went out despite a balanced and strong shot.

38.min: Murat Hacioglu shot just inside the box after good pass was thrown by Erhan Albayrak. But the ball went above the crossbar.

41.min: Hasan Sas met the ball after Sabri's deep pass. Hasan was one on one with the goalkeeper but he shot the ball at the post.

46.min: Hasan Sas crossed from the left-hand side. Necati jumped very well and headed from close range but missed the target.

51.min: Galatasaray defenders waited for an offside but the linesman didn't flag. Volkan was one on one with Mondragon, and shot but Mondragon caught the ball.

69.min: Tayfun crossed from the left-hand side. The Egyptian Ahmed Belal met the ball and shot strongly but the ball went high and out.

83.min: Zafer passed to Ahmed Belal, who shot from the left but again the ball was off target.

90+2 min: Galatasaray's youngster Aydin Yilmaz got the ball at the edge of the box. He dribbled and found a good position, before shooting into the net! 1-0!

Ratings:

Konyaspor: Özden xxx, Yasin xxx, Ümit xx, Ömer xxx, Erhan xx, Zafer xxx, Murat Hacýoðlu xx, Erman xx, Mustafa x, Volkan xxx (min. 65 Belal xx), Bebbe xx (min. 65 Tayfun xx)

Galatasaray: Mondragon xxx, Uður xx (min. 46 Hakan Þükür xx), Tomas xxx, Yalçýn xx (min. 21
Sabri xx), Orhan xx, Ferhat xx, Cihan xx, Volkan xx, Hasan Þaþ xxx (min. 84 Aydýn xxxx), Necati xx, Ümit Karan xx

Match Details:

Stadium: Atatürk

Referees: Metin Tokat xx, Fatih Gündoðdu xx, Özgür Fatih Kalaycý xx

Goal: Min. 90+2 Aydýn

Booking: Min. 16 Uður, Min. 90 Volkan (Galatasaray), Min. 50 Erman, Min. 87 Ömer (Konyaspor)

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