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Konyaspor captain Abdelzaher El Saka played in his
club's triumph at Sivasspor.
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Konya continued their woeful defending of high set-pieces,
which have led to many goals in their net this season.
A corner after 25 minutes went into the mess, El Saka
couldn't get his head onto it, and it was flicked in
by Frangsergio to make the score 1-0.
Siva continued to attack and could have had a penalty
when Mehmet Yildiz turned past El Saka in style before
being put down by the another defender inside the area.
The referee waved play on though.
The second half saw a mighty come-back from the visitors,
and the Egyptian was involved. He marched forward and
played a nice pass to a team-mate, who chipped the ball
into the box, finding Neca who slotted in the equaliser.
Siva began their pressure but El Saka was alert. He
headed away a dangerous long ball, but it came back
to an attacker, who fortunately shot wide. Strangely
enough, the exact same incident occurred again just
minutes later, only from a cross which El Saka had headed
away, only for it to fall to an attacker.
Neca got his second to put Konya in front, though this
was against the run of play. He chipped the ball coolly
over goalkeeper Petkovic after a fine through ball in
the 70th minute.
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In the final minutes the drama heightened. A Siva winger
cut in on the right before whipping a dangerous low
ball into the box. It was going across the face of the
goal but El Saka managed to throw himself in its way
brilliantly to deny an equaliser.
With Siva committed forward, Konya grabbed a third after
an easy counter which saw a ball played into the box
for Erman to score. At the other end, El Saka did even
better as he stopped another similar ball heading for
the target, clearing it off the line.
With this result Konya continued their European quest...
Sivasspor: Petkovic x, Cem Can x, Murat x, Servet
xx, Hayrettin x, Cvetkov xx, Frangsergio xx, Yasir x
(Colosimo min. 75 ?), Serdar x (Musa min. 46 x), Ilhan
x (Gürhan min. 65 x), Mehmet Yildiz xx
Konyaspor: Özden xx, Ömer xx, El
Saka xx, Erkan xx (Sedat min. 74 x), Erman Ergin
xx, Dasilva xx, Mustafa xx, Eren xx, Erman Özgür
xx, Tayfun xx (Eder min. 81 ?), Neca xxx (Muhammed
Abdullah (min. 90 ?)
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